Puts Purchased on Vishay Intertechnology (VSH)

Shares of Vishay Intertechnology

are lower on the session by 0.39%, currently trading at $13.90. 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 puts on the name today. A short while ago the April 2011 $12.50 put was purchased 1,700 times, on the offer, on open interest of 1,909 contracts. Overall put volume is now running at 3.06x the daily average with 100% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. is an international manufacturer and supplier of semiconductors and passive electronic components. Semiconductors include rectifiers; diodes; transistors; integrated circuits, such as power ICs, and analog switches; modules that contains a range of semiconductors in a single package; and optoelectronic products, such as infrared emitters and detectors, IR receiver modules, optocouplers, optical sensors, light-emitting diodes, and IR data transceiver modules.