Calls Purchased on Moody's Corporation (MCO)

Shares of Moody's Corporation MCO are lower on the session by 0.81%, currently trading at $20.76. 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 February 2011 $30.00 call was purchased 2,400 times, on the offer, on open interest of 2,147 contracts. Overall call volume is now running at 2.05x the daily average with 81% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. Moody's Corporation is a provider of credit ratings; credit and economic related research, data and analytical tools; risk management software, and quantitative credit risk measures, credit portfolio management solutions and training services. The company operates in two segments: miss and Moody's Analytics.