Calls Purchased on Beckman Coulter (BEC)

Shares of Beckman Coulter BEC are higher on the session by 0.06%, currently trading at $82.91. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past six months and is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying calls on the name today. A short while ago the March 2011 $85.00 call was purchased 10,000 times, on the offer, on open interest of 85 contracts. Overall call volume is now running at 3.80x the daily average with 99% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. Beckman Coulter, Inc. is a manufacturer and marketer of biomedical testing instrument systems, tests and supplies. It operates in two segments: segments: Clinical Diagnostics and Life Science.