Cotton On Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 25
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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  6/22/01
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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    |  6/22/01 |  Week
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|July     '01         28     -1,948*     1,366     -2,996*     3,705   -13,358
|October  '01      1,221       -107        800         68      3,970     1,683
|December '01      6,980        102     11,433      2,899     39,571     5,219
|March    '02     15,667       -124      5,076        -47      5,240       231
|May      '02      9,017       -284        221        -40*     3,856        13
|July     '02     14,868       -157        210        -20      2,416       326
|October  '02      1,695         49        140          0        155         0
|December '02      1,507        -78        192          0      1,929       -26
|March    '03        159         -3          0          0        120         0
|May      '03        303        -29          0          0         34        19
|July     '03         78          0          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       51,523     -2,579*    19,438       -136*    60,996    -5,893
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|1/ Merchants with futures positions of 50 or more contracts in one future.
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|*  Changes from the 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
|6/28/01
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