$Alphabet-A (GOOGL.US)$'s options volume trading surged Thursday as the stock headed for its worst decline this year amid concerns the company may be forced to sell its Chrome business.
Call options that give the holders the right to buy the stock at $170 attracted the heaviest trading as investors and speculators unload them after the stock tumbled below that strike price. The share price slump boosted the odds that the con...

I. What happened last week?
In recent days, global markets, led by the U.S. stock market, seem to be struggling.
Last Friday, the U.S. non-farm payroll data and unemployment rate came in worse than expected, sparking fears of an economic recession and widespread market panic.
U.S. technology stocks were especially hard hit. In the Mag7 group, only $Apple (AAPL.US)$ saw a slight increase, while the rest declined, with $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ falling s...

$Meta Platforms (META.US)$ saw institutional investors trading millions of dollars in stock options heading into earnings that could offer signs of the ad pricing power of Facebook's parent company at a time when politicians are boosting election spending.
At 9:44:07 a.m. in New York Monday, an unusual bearish trade was posted costing $2.61 million for call options that give the holder or holders the right to buy 186,...

Big money is jumping into $CrowdStrike (CRWD.US)$ put options amid increasing demand for protection against deepening losses as the stock slumps more than 8%.
CrowdStrike's stock fell to $314.56 Friday morning after CEO George Kutz posted on LinkedIn that the company's customers were impacted by a defect found in a content update for Microsoft Windows hosts. The event caused a global outage, forcing airli...