MarketBeat / Market Insight From WSJ.com
Options Action? Go With Gossip</br></br>---</br></br>August's Slow Time Awards Extra Torque to Rumors,</br></br>But Choppy Trading Can Mean Rallies Just Stall Out</br></br>Regulators have plunged headlong into battling rumor-mongering in the markets. But in the dog days of August, when trading activity is scant and news flow is thin, few things can make the options market hum like a little corporate gossip.