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Jun.13
3:54 PM ET
Friday, 13 Jun 2008
Fueling Your Portfolio
Posted By:Lee Brodie
Topics:Stock Options | Stock Market | Stock Picks
Sectors:Oil and Gas
Companies:Valero Energy Corp
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Despite the price of oil, refiners have consistently been a hard trade, partly because they aren’t a pure play on crude’s inexorable rise as oil is an input cost. But that’s not stopping Karen Finerman from finding a trade anyway. She’s looking at Valero [VLO
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It’s a risky trade because there are so many moving parts. A big turn in anything, from the crack spread to the price of a barrel to demand, the price of a stock like Valero can be hard to predict. But the July calls are attractively priced, Finerman said.
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