Cotton On Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 14
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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  4/6/01
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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    |  4/6/01  |  Week
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|May      '01      2,083        280      6,156       -362     27,942    -1,645
|July     '01      7,684       -892      2,438       -280     21,071     2,840
|October  '01      1,299        -23        566         15      1,208        -8
|December '01      6,314        720      4,255        214     19,076       222
|March    '02     14,303      1,460      5,015          0      2,444       126
|May      '02      6,447      1,110          0          0      2,259       183
|July     '02     10,294      1,547          0          0      1,156         7
|October  '02      1,196        227          0          0        155         0
|December '02        697        117        142          0        962       109
|March    '03         76          0          0          0         31         0
|May      '03         26         -4          0          0          0         0
|July     '03         58          0          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       50,477      4,542     18,572       -413     76,304     1,834
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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
|4/12/01
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