Options Brief: Cost Plus

Shares of Cost Plus (NASDAQ:

) are lower on the session by 0.61%, trading at $8.12. Overall call volume is now running at 12.88x the daily average, with 87% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 1,442 contracts have traded on the session so far. Cost Plus, Inc. is a specialty retailer of casual home furnishings and entertaining products in the United States. As of January 30, 2010, the Company operated 268 stores under the name World Market, Cost Plus World Market, Cost Plus Imports and World Market Stores in 30 states