Cotton On Call Report

|                                Weekly Report No. 29
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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  7/20/01
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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    |  7/20/01 |  Week
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|July     '01          0          0          0          0          0      -207
|October  '01      1,152        -28      1,305        442      3,937       115
|December '01      8,827      2,373     15,957      2,880     40,367      -311
|March    '02     19,480      3,334      9,243      4,077      6,933       448
|May      '02     11,819      1,423      3,053      1,494      4,737        22
|July     '02     17,371        307        530         11      3,320        70
|October  '02      1,850       -185        151         11        193         5
|December '02      1,682        192        204          0      2,582        31
|March    '03        136        -22          0          0        120         0
|May      '03        297          0          0          0         18         0
|July     '03        216          0          0          0          0         0
|December '03          0        -80          0          0          0         0
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|   Totals:       62,830      7,314     30,443      8,915     62,207       173
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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
|7/26/01
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