Options Brief: The Western Union Company (WU)

Shares of The Western Union Company WU are lower on the session by 2.37%, currently trading at $17.72. Put volume is now running at 7.68x the daily average, with 9% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 4,202 put contracts have traded so far during the session. The Western Union Company provides money transfer and payment services worldwide. The company's Consumer-to-Consumer segment offers various consumer-to-consumer money transfer services, primarily through a network of third-party agents using multi-currency and real-time money transfer processing systems.