Biofuels Digest Index recovers to 69.73 despite an advanced biofuels tumble

The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, recovered 0.50 percent to 69.73 despite an advanced biofuels tumble. For the day, Solazyme (SZYM) fell 2.19 percent to $10.70 as the unwind of the Solazyme Roquette joint venture weighed on investor sentiment, while Ceres (CERE) jumped 7.09 percent to $2.72. Among other equities, Codexis (CDXS) surged 5.61 percent to $2.26. Overall, advances led declines 2 to 1 for the day.