Calls Purchased on CenturyLink, Inc.

Shares of CenturyLink, Inc. CTL are higher on the session by 0.30%, currently trading at $39.75. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past five months and is currently trading below the 200-day moving average. Options traders are buying calls on the name today. A short while ago the January 2013 $35.00 call traded 4,100 times on open interest of 488 contracts. Overall call volume is now running at 3.30x the daily average with 94% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. CenturyLink, Inc., formerly CenturyTel, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is an integrated communications company engaged primarily in providing a range of communications services, including local and long distance voice, wholesale local network access, high-speed Internet access, other data services and video services.