Options Brief: The Blackstone Group

Shares of The Blackstone Group BX are higher on the session by 3.94%, trading at $16.90. Overall call volume is now running at 3.09x the daily average, with 90% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 17,899 contracts have traded on the session so far. The Blackstone Group L.P. is a manager of private capital and provider of financial advisory services. Blackstone is an independent manager of private capital with assets under management of $128.1 billion, as of December 31, 2010.