Cotton On-Call Report
| Weekly Report No. 33
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| "On call" positions in spot cotton based on New York Cotton futures
| reported by merchants in special account status 1/ as of 8/17/01
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| (In Contracts)
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| | | Open Futures
| | Call Cotton Based New York | Contracts - New York
| | | Cotton Exchange
|Futures |-------------------------------------------|----------------------
| | Unfixed | Change | Unfixed | Change | At | Change
|Based | Call | From | Call | From | Close | From
| | Sales | Prev. | Purchs. | Prev. | | Prev.
|On: | | Week | | Week | 8/17/01 | Week
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|October '01 914 -91 1,254 11 3,851 -79
|December '01 8,476 -272 16,923 -34 42,654 716
|March '02 19,444 127 9,313 6 7,756 35
|May '02 11,146 -250 2,800 -245 4,884 94
|July '02 17,715 205 624 50 3,576 50
|October '02 2,008 7 140 0 195 0
|December '02 2,045 132 144 0 2,694 -3
|March '03 478 17 0 0 162 17
|May '03 509 0 0 0 216 0
|July '03 662 0 0 0 20 0
|December '03 80 0 0 0 0 0
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| Totals: 63,477 -125 31,198 -212 66,008 830
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|This report is published by the Commission's Division of Economic Analysis.
|If you have any questions concerning this report, call Vincent G. Varisano,
|Industry Economist, Eastern Region at (212) 488-1311.
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|Released after 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
|8/23/01
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