Options Brief: Arch Coal, Inc.

Shares of Arch Coal, Inc. ACI are higher on the session by 0.05%, trading at $27.44. Overall put volume is now running at 7.30x the daily average, with 3% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 33,431 contracts have traded on the session so far. Arch Coal, Inc. is a coal producer company. During the year ended December 31, 2010, the company sold 162.8 million tons of coal, including approximately 6.9 million tons of coal it purchased from third parties.