Noteworthy Wednesday Option Activity: NEM, BAC, HD

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Newmont Mining Corp (NEM), where a total of 32,965 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 3.3 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 45% of NEM's average daily trading volume over the past month of 7.3 million shares..