Biofuels Digest Index jumps to 62.84 as ethanol, large caps surge

The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, jumped 1.16 percent to 62.84 as ethanol and large caps surged. For the day, Valero (VLO) gained 4.12 percent to $30.07, while Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) soared 13.89 percent to $0.41.  Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) escalated 3.28 percent to $7.87. Overall, advances led declines 3 to 1 for the day.