Options Market Statistics: Amazon Attracts Bullish Bets After Announcement of 9000 Layoffs
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U.S. stocks climbed Monday after regulators engineered a deal for Swiss banking giant UBS to take over rival Credit Suisse.
$Tesla(TSLA.US$ shares edged higher by 1.73%, with option volume of 1.35 million, and calls accounted for 53.6%. The 185.00 calls expiring Friday lead the flow with a volume of 83,726.
$Apple(AAPL.US$ shares rose by 1.55%, with option volume of 0.85 million, and calls accounted for 55.7%. The 160.00 calls expiring Friday lead the flow with a volume of 77,411.
Apple pushed back projects, paused hiring, micromanaged teams amid efforts to rein in costs and avoid mass layoffs.
$Amazon(AMZN.US$ shares edged lower by 1.25%, with option volume of 0.56 million, and calls accounted for 68.4%. Calls are outnumbering puts at a 2:1 ratio.
Amazon said it would cut 9,000 more corporate jobs across units that include its profitable cloud-computing and advertising businesses, a sign that the company's cost-cutting is extending into all aspects of its operations as technology giants continue to slash spending.
$Credit Suisse(CS.US$ shares tumbled 52.99%, 5 times its 30-day average volume, and calls accounted for 50.2%.
Unusual Stock Options Activity
There was a noteworthy activity in $First Republic Bank(FRC.US$ , where multiple options have topped volume to open interest ranking. The highest volume over open interest ratio reaches 61x with nearly 7,372 contracts.
Source: Benzinga, Dow Jones, CNBC
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Source: Benzinga, WSJ
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