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Option Update: Bear Stearns put volume & volatility spike as shares sell off over 9% on chatter

Posted Mar 10th 2008 11:55AM by Paul FosterPaul Foster RSS Feed
Filed under: Bear Stearns Cos (BSC)

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Bear Stearns (NYSE: BSC) is recently down $5.08 to $64.92 on unconfirmed liquidity problems chatter.

BSC is expected to report Q1 EPS on March 20.

BSC call option volume of 12,607 contracts compares to put volume of 47,978 contracts. BSC March option implied volatility of 91 is above a level of 81 an hour ago; April option implied volatility of 78 is above a level of 62 from an hour ago. BSC average option implied volatility over the 17-weeks is 53 according to Track Data, suggesting larger price movement.

Option Update is provided by Stock Specialist Paul Foster of theflyonthewall.com

Tags: bear stearns, BearStearns, bsc, inthenews, option implied volatility, OptionImpliedVolatility

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