Cotton On Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 13
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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  3/30/01
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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    |  3/30/01 |  Week
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|May      '01      1,803       -386*     6,518       -315*    29,587    -2,808
|July     '01      8,576       -845      2,718        318*    18,231     2,077
|October  '01      1,322        -10*       551         51      1,216        30
|December '01      5,594        109*     4,041        -97     18,854     1,451
|March    '02     12,843       -163      5,015          0      2,318       244
|May      '02      5,337        171          0          0      2,076       361
|July     '02      8,747        442          0          0      1,149        31
|October  '02        969          0          0          0        155         5
|December '02        580         33        142          0        853        45
|March    '03         76         38          0          0         31        21
|May      '03         30          8          0          0          0         0
|July     '03         58         14          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       45,935       -589*    18,985        -43*    74,470     1,457
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|* Changes from previous week are based on revised data for last week.
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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
|4/5/01
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