Unless producers continue to meet market needs, precariously tight first-quarter stocks will set the stage for tensions in the summer gasoline and the winter heating oil seasons.
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First-quarter stock performance varied from the 38 percent slide for Genentech of South San Francisco, to the 1 percent loss for Emeryville's Chiron _ which still has an astronomical P / E up around 800, according to Yahoo.
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Analysts who look for a fourth-quarter stock rally base much of their optimism on the end of an unusually busy and negative " pre-earnings " report season that, more than anything else, appears to have depressed investor sentiment.
