Core Every Week Watch: APOL, AAPL, APA, IAG

New York, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/04/2013 -- Apollo Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:APOL) is a private education provider. The Company offers educational programs and services both online and on-campus at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels through its wholly owned subsidiaries, The University of Phoenix, Inc. (University of Phoenix); Institute for Professional Development (IPD); The College for Financial Planning Institutes Corporation (CFFP), and Meritus University, Inc. (Meritus).

Shares of Apollo Group, Inc (NASDAQ: APOL) are trading at $16.15 and is -16.87% of its 50-day Moving Average price of $19.4279 and -28.93% from its 200-day Moving Average price of $22.7229. The average trading volume is 2892800 shares and its market capitalization is $1.818B.

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The shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL - 430.47) extended their retreat on Friday, finishing in territory not charted since early 2012. Amid the equity's challenges on the charts of late, option traders have been upping the bearish ante, with speculators scooping up puts at a faster-than-usual clip. What's more, traders last week employed calls to place neutral-to-bearish bets on the struggling tech titan.

By writing the calls to open, the sellers expect AAPL to remain south on $450 through the end of the week, when the options expire. In this best-case scenario, the calls will remain out of the money, allowing the sellers to pocket the net credit received at initiation -- likely in the ballpark of $2.06, the volume-weighted average price (VWAP) of the calls. As of Friday's close, the options had a delta of 0.17, or 17%, suggesting the options market is giving the contracts at less than 1-in-5 chance of moving into the money this week.

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Apache Corporation (NYSE:APA) shares having worth of 25,760 are purchased by its Director Pitman Charles at a price of $73.60 and total number of shares was 350. In the last trading session, Apache Corporation (NYSE:APA) went down -0.70% to close at $73.75 and its total traded volume was 3.79 million shares. APA has a market cap of 28.91 billion and its beta value stands at 1.36 times. Its shares were trading within the range of $72.76-$74.12.

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IAMGOLD Corporation (USA) (NYSE:IAG) decreased 2.82% and closed at $6.55 on a traded volume of 6.70 million shares. So far this year, the stock is down over 43%. The 52-week range for the stock is $7.10 and $16.88. IAMGOLD Corporation is a mining company. IAMGOLD‘s interests include five operating gold mines, a niobium mine, a diamond royalty, and exploration and development projects located in Africa and the Americas.

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