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NEW YORK (Market Intellisearch) -- Unusual volume of call contracts was traded today. There were 1,241 call contracts traded compared to the ten day average volume of 245 contracts. On the put side, 131 put contracts exchanged hands. Today's traded Put/Call ratio is 0.11. There were 9.47 calls traded for each put contract.

Budget worries weigh on the defense sector, but it is unlikely that the U.S. will ever make lasting cuts here.

BloggingStocks: Option traders appear to be setting up for a bullish move on Janus Capital Group (JNS). Traders plowed into 1,010 new call option contracts -- 7.77 times the average volume -- on the stock on Friday. And we know that traders were eager to get into ... Read more

As we wind down the summer doldrums, are we heading toward another low-volume August?  Today was one of the lowest volume sessions of the year on the NYSE. Kids are returning to school in some parts of the country already, and many portfolio managers and traders will begin returning to their desks. But what they are finding in the market this week is quite different than they would have seen last week.[More...]

Aerospace and defense company Alliant Techsystems Inc. (NYSE:ATK) announced operating earnings of $2.24 per share for its first-quarter fiscal 2011 ended July 4, 2010, which surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.96. The results also exceeded $2.09 per share reported in the year-ago quarter. Total Revenue Total revenue of Alliant during the quarter decreased 0.6% to $1,202.1 ...