Options Brief: HSBC Holdings. (HBC)

Shares of HSBC Holdings HBC are higher on the session by 1.28%, trading at $54.59. Overall call volume is now running at 2.59x the daily average, with 6% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 10,825 contracts have traded on the session so far. HSBC Holdings plc is a global banking and financial services organizations. As of December 31, 2010, it provided a range of financial services to around 95 million customers through two customer groups, Personal Financial Services (PFS), including consumer finance, and Commercial Banking (CMB), and two global businesses, Global Banking and Markets (GB&M), and Global Private Banking (GPB).