Calls Purchased on Host Hotels & Resorts (HST)

Shares of Host Hotels & Resorts HST are lower on the session by 0.11%, currently trading at $18.43. 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 January 2011 $19.00 call was purchased 1,200 times, on the offer, on open interest of only 504 contracts. This signals new positioning on the strike. Overall call volume is now running at 9.52x the daily average with 97% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. Host Hotels & Resorts, L.P. is a limited partnership operating through an umbrella partnership structure with Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. as its sole general partner.