Large investor lays out $31 million options hedge against U.S. stock market drop

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Shortly after the market opened on Monday, an investor paid about $31 million to buy 16,000 of January put options at the 2,980 level on the S&P 500 IndexThe position struck about 4.6% below the market’s current level around 3,124 appears to be hedging roughly $4.8 billion in assets, said Henry Schwartz, president of Trade Alert in New York.

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