Options Brief: Arch Coal

Shares of Arch Coal ACI are higher on the session by 1.88%, trading at $26.03. Overall call volume is now running at 2.62x the daily average, with 2% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 20,390 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.