Options Brief: BHP Billiton

Shares of BHP Billiton

are lower on the session by 1.12%, trading at $86.57. Overall put volume is now running at 2.94x the daily average, with 81% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 11,621 contracts have traded on the session so far. BHP Billiton Limited is a diversified natural resources company. The company operates nine customer sector groups: petroleum, aluminium, base metals (including uranium), diamonds and specialty products, stainless steel materials, iron ore, manganese, metallurgical coal and energy coal.