Santander Finance Preferred SA Unipersonal (STD) $9.71 -2.11%
Banco Santander (STD), the Spanish bank, is down 21 cents to $9.71 and options action is brisk, with 12,000 calls and 2,275 puts trade so far. The action includes two blocks (3,500 and 4,000) of Jan $10 calls at 25 cents when bid-ask was 15 to 25 cents. 8,446 now traded vs. 2,086 in open interest. Jan $11 calls and Feb 9 puts are seeing interest as well. Implied volatility is up 6 percent to 55 and the heightened activity is likely a play on developments in Portugal. ECB officials apparently threw the country a lifeline Monday by buying bonds. Bailout hopes for Portugal might be fueling the bullish sentiment in Banco Santander, perhaps raising hopes that the Debt Crisis will stop spreading throughout the euro-zone like an STD.
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Are the Feb puts being sold or bought?
Looks like both buyers and sellers of those puts today.