Options Brief: Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.

Shares of Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. ANR are lower on the session by 0.72%, trading at $45.36. Overall put volume is now running at 3.32x the daily average, with 4% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 18,922 contracts have traded on the session so far. Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. is a coal supplier in the United States. The company is a supplier and exporter of metallurgical coal for use in the steel-making process, and a supplier of thermal coal to electric utilities and manufacturing industries.