Options Brief: Assured Guaranty Ltd. (AGO)

Shares of Assured Guaranty Ltd. AGO are higher on the session by 3.47%, trading at $18.21. Overall call volume is now running at 2.99x the daily average, with 57% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 9,083 contracts have traded on the session so far. Assured Guaranty Ltd. is a holding company that provides, through its operating subsidiaries, credit protection products to the public finance, infrastructure and structured finance markets in the United States, as well as internationally.