Cotton On Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 7
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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  2/16/01
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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    |  2/16/01 |  Week
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|March    '01        943       -673      1,892       -419      9,390   -15,043
|May      '01      5,252       -675      7,094        -27     33,092     7,348
|July     '01     15,150       -420      2,855       -222     13,553       747
|October  '01      1,538         13        474         18        942      -201
|December '01      4,451        642      1,861        130     12,403       575
|March    '02     10,614        836      5,015        -40      1,248        72
|May      '02      3,777        380          0        -31        763        76
|July     '02      6,339        851          0          0      1,002         8
|October  '02        613        320          0          0          5         0
|December '02        239         48        142          0         24         0
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|   Totals:       48,916      1,322     19,333       -591     72,422    -6,418
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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
|2/22/01
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