Options Brief: Allied Irish Banks

Shares of Allied Irish Banks (NYSE: AIB) are lower on the session by 3.25%, trading at $2.06. Overall call volume is now running at 9.87x the daily average, with 35% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 1,273 contracts have traded on the session so far. Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. together with its subsidiaries, conducts retail and commercial banking business in Ireland. It also provides corporate lending and capital markets activities from its head office at Bankcentre and from Dublin's International Financial Services Centre.