Chart o’ the Day: The Options Boom

The Wall Street Journal notes that this past quarter has been the best first quarter for trading revenues at the banks and brokers since financial crisis. Overall, U.S. options trading enjoyed its busiest quarter in history, by one measure, according to research from consulting firm Tabb Group and data provider Hanweck. Nearly 1.4 billion options contracts were cleared in the first quarter, up 33% from a year ago, the fi...

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