Options Brief: Murphy Oil Corporation (MUR)

Shares of Murphy Oil Corporation MUR are higher on the session by 1.45%, trading at $74.12. Overall call volume is now running at 2.20x the daily average, with 52% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 3,329 contracts have traded on the session so far. Murphy Oil Corporation is an oil and gas exploration and production company with refining and marketing operations in the United States and the United Kingdom. The company operates primarily as a holding company.