Noteworthy Tuesday Option Activity: HOT, MDLZ, USB

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc (HOT), where a total of 43,830 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 4.4 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 171.1% of HOT's average daily trading volume over the past month of 2.6 million shares..