Welcome to the Financial News Network Options Report. On the call side, Fifth Third Bancorp calls are at close to 9 times the average amount after the company was upgraded by analysts. EMC Corp and Southwest Airlines calls are both over 5 times the average volume as investors await quarterly earnings results from both companies later this month. Eli Lilly calls are not far behind at 5.2 times their normal volume. Finally, Calls on shares of The Gap are at 4.6 times the normal amount after the company announced that it will be selling 10-year bonds and news of a new loan and credit facility. Taking a look at the put side of the ledger, Power-One puts are at close to 4.5 times their average volume after the company was downgraded by investors. Star Scientific puts are at just over 3.5 times their normal volume as investors are bearish on the company today. Puda Coal puts continue to be active this week. Today they are trading at just over 3 times the average amount. Finally, Cephalon and United Continental close out the list with just under 3 times the average amount of puts. This has been you daily options update from the Financial News Network. Stay tuned for more insight into where the big money is placing their bets each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Welcome to the Financial News Network Options Report. On the call side, Fifth Third Bancorp calls are at close to 9 times the average amount after the company was upgraded by analysts. EMC Corp and Southwest Airlines calls are both over 5 times the average volume as investors await quarterly earnings results from both companies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}