Option Block 179: Live from the new Option Pit HQ!
TRADING BLOCK
Finally a day of action after an unchanged last couple of weeks. Apple destroys Samsung in jury verdict - $1B Verdict - Samsung won basically no judgements - Interesting that the judge disallowed a samsung media player from 2006, that looks just like the iPhone! Groupon can't catch a bid.
ODD BLOCK
Huge Blocks of Calls Trade on EMC - Chasing Deltas
Puts Active on Seagate Technology (STX).
Shield, which has been included since the S&P was created in 1957, has been booted and will be placed by Lyondell Basell, a Dutch chemical company.
XPRESS BLOCK
Sean Fitzgerald discusses a few…
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