Options Brief: Valero Energy Corporation

Shares of Valero Energy Corporation VLO are lower on the session by 2.12%, trading at $24.43. Overall call volume is now running at 2.60x the daily average, with 62% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 31,895 contracts have traded on the session so far. Valero Energy Corporation, incorporated in 1981, is a North American independent petroleum refiner and marketer. As of December 31, 2010, it owned 14 petroleum refineries, which were located in the United States, Canada and Aruba.