Notable Put Options Activity in Host Hotels & Resorts

Shares of Host Hotels & Resorts

are lower on the session by 0.38%, currently trading at $15.72. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past three weeks and is currently testing the 50-day moving average. Options traders are focusing on puts today. The strike seeing the heaviest action is the July 2012 $15.00 put, which has traded 1,900 times on open interest of 3,006 contracts. Put volume is outpacing call volume by 2,000 to 1. Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. operates as a self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust. Host Inc. owns properties and conducts operations through Host Hotels & Resorts, L.P., of which Host Inc. is the sole general partner and in which it holds approximately 98.5% of the partnership interests.