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Unusual Activity Alert: Is that a Call Stupid on Dollar General Corp. (DG)?

Dollar General Corp. (DG) was trading at 57.55 when a customer executed what appears to be a call stupid.

Target Corp. (TGT) was trading at 57.71 earlier today when a customer sold the July 57.5/60 put spread just over 7000 times at a price of 1.60.

At the time of this writing Tesoro Corp. was trading at 58.23 and seeing heavy call action on slightly in-the-money calls.

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