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Huntsman Corp. (NYSE: HUN) is seeing some increased call options trading today, and this may be on the heels of private equity firm Apollo’s Hexion filing suit against the banks which refuse to fund the buyout of the chemical company.  The banks have just outright refused to fund this acquisition for a myriad of reasons, [...]

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is not usually in the most active options contracts.  But its stock has not normally been under $20.00 either. Today we have seen some    28,604 options contracts trade (as of 1:28 PM EST) in the DEC-2008 $20.00 Call options.  What is interesting is that before today the open interest in [...]

It seems that someone is making a majorly aggressive bet against the near-future of Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) stock.  Starting last week we noticed a marked increase in both PUT and CALL options in the consumer products giant in the NOV-2008 expiration month.  And the trading volume continues today.  This was actually the most [...]

StemCells, Inc. (NASDAQ:STEM) is trading sharply higher today after the company reported today that its HuCNS-SC® proprietary product candidate (purified human neural stem cells) can protect the retina from progressive degeneration when transplanted into a well-established animal model. Shares are up a whopping 43% at $2.06 on heavy trading at 10:30 AM EST.  Average daily [...]