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• SNN, SMITH&NEPHEW PLC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 48.221367

Smith & Nephew plc is a global business engaged in the development, manufacture, marketing and sales of medical devices in the sectors of orthopaedics, which includes reconstruction, trauma and clinical therapies, endoscopy and advanced wound management. The Company is organised into three global business units of Orthopaedics (which includes Reconstruction, Trauma and Clinical Therapies), Endoscopy and Advanced Wound Management.

• MMT, M F S MULTIMKT IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 11.363444

MFS Multimarket Income Trust (the Trust) is a closed-end fund and maintains a portfolio that includes investments in investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds, United States Government securities, and international investment-grade and emerging markets debt securities. The Trust’s investment objective is to seek high current income, but may also consider capital appreciation. The Fund?s portfolio includes high yield corporates, high grade corporates, non-United States Government bonds, emerging markets bonds, mortgage-backed securities, United States Treasury securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities, floating rate loans, asset-backed securities, United States Government agencies, residential mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations. The Trust is managed by Massachusetts Financial Services Company (MFS).

• WRE, WASH REAL EST INV Current Caprock Strength Rating: 0.690000

Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (WREIT) is a self-administered, self-managed, equity real estate investment trust (REIT). The business consists of the ownership and operation of income-producing real properties in the greater Washington metro region. WREIT owns a portfolio of office buildings, medical office buildings, industrial/flex properties, multifamily buildings and retail centers. WREIT operates in five business segments: regional office, medical office, retail, multifamily and industrial/flex properties. In September 2008, WRIT acquired The Kenmore, a 374-unit, 270,000 square foot apartment building located in Washington, DC.

• JNJ, JOHNSON AND JOHNS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 8.617534

Johnson & Johnson is engaged in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the healthcare field. Johnson & Johnson has more than 250 operating companies. The Company operates in three segments: Consumer, Pharmaceutical, and Medical Devices and Diagnostics. The Consumer segment includes a range of products used in the baby care, skin care, oral care, wound care and women?s healthcare fields, as well as nutritional and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products. The Pharmaceutical segment includes products in the therapeutic areas, such as anti-infective, antipsychotic, cardiovascular, contraceptive, dermatology, gastrointestinal, hematology, immunology, neurology, oncology, pain management, urology and virology. The Medical Devices and Diagnostics segment includes a range of products distributed to wholesalers, hospitals and retailers. In October 2008, the Company acquired HealthMedia, Inc. In December 2008, it acquired Omrix Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.

• BKMU, BANK MUTUAL CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 41.878338

Bank Mutual Corporation serves as a unitary savings and loan holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary, Bank Mutual (the Bank), a federal savings bank. The Bank is a community-oriented financial institution. Its principal business is originating mortgage loans, consumer loans, commercial real estate loans, and commercial business loans and attracting retail deposits from the general public. It also invests in various mortgage-related securities and investment securities. The principal lending is on one-to four-family, owner-occupied homes, home equity loans and lines of credit, automobile loans, multi-family and commercial real estate loans, and commercial business loans. During February 27, 2009, the Bank had 78 banking offices located in 31 counties in Wisconsin, in addition to a Minnesota bank office.

• ECL, ECOLAB INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.403633

Ecolab Inc. (Ecolab) develops and markets products and services for the hospitality, foodservice, health care and industrial markets. The Company provides cleaning and sanitizing products and programs, as well as pest elimination, maintenance and repair services primarily to hotels and restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, quick service (fast-food and convenience store) units, grocery stores, commercial and institutional laundries, light industry, dairy plants and farms, food and beverage processors, and the vehicle wash industry. The Company operates in three business segments: United States Cleaning & Sanitizing segment, United States Other Services segment and International segment. In February 2008, the Company acquired Ecovation, Inc., a provider of renewable energy solutions and management systems primarily for the food and beverage manufacturing industry in the United States, including dairy, beverage and meat and poultry producers.

• NKE, NIKE INC CL B Current Caprock Strength Rating: 32.154182

NIKE, Inc. (NIKE) is engaged in the design, development and worldwide marketing of footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessory products. NIKE sells athletic footwear and athletic apparel. It sells its products to retail accounts, through NIKE-owned retail, including stores and Internet sales, and through a mix of independent distributors and licensees, in over 180 countries around the world. Its products include running, training, basketball, soccer, sport-inspired urban shoes, and children?s shoes. It also markets shoes designed for aquatic activities, baseball, bicycling, cheerleading, football, golf, lacrosse, outdoor activities, skateboarding, tennis, volleyball, walking, wrestling, and other athletic and recreational uses. On March 3, 2008, the Company acquired Umbro Ltd. (Umbro). On April 17, 2008, it completed the sale of its Bauer Hockey subsidiary.

• BK, BANK OF N Y CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 33.957783

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation is a global financial services company with approximately $928 billion in assets under management and $20.2 trillion in assets under custody and administration. On July 1, 2007, The Bank of New York Company, Inc. and Mellon Financial Corporation (Mellon Financial) merged into The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (the Company), with The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation being the surviving entity. On July 1, 2008, the Company completed the process of consolidating and renaming the principal United States bank and trust company subsidiaries into two principal banks: The Bank of New York Mellon (the Bank) and BNY Mellon, National Association (BNY Mellon, N.A.). The Company operates its business into seven business segments: asset management, wealth management, asset servicing, issuer services, clearing services, treasury services and others. In March 2009, it acquired JPMorgan Trust Bank Limited in Japan from JPMorgan Chase & Co.

• DO, DIAMOND OFFSHORE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 34.530838

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (Diamond Offshore) is a global offshore oil and gas drilling contractor. As of December 31, 2008, the Company?s fleet consisted of 30 semisubmersibles, 14 jack-ups and one drillship. The Company offers a range of services worldwide in various markets, including the deep water, harsh environment, conventional semisubmersible and jack-up markets. The Company provides offshore drilling services to a customer base that includes independent oil and gas companies and government-owned oil companies. During 2008, the Company performed services for 49 different customers with Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., accounting for 13.1% of its annual total revenues.

• TRE, TANZANIAN ROYALTY Current Caprock Strength Rating: 9.442011

Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation is a Canada-based exploration-stage company. The Company is engaged in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties, including the optioning out of properties for pre-production option payments and royalties on future gold production. All of the Company?s concessions are located in Tanzania. The Itetemia property is located in the Mwanza region of the Lake Victoria Archean Greenstone Belt, some 90 kilometers southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania. The Company?s Luhala property consists of six licenses totaling 75.76 square kilometers. The Kigosi property consists of 20 prospecting licenses. The Lunguya property consists of nine prospecting licenses. The Company?s Kanagele property consists of 11 prospecting licenses. The Company?s Tulawaka property consists of 11 prospecting licenses.

• MCR, M F S CHARTR INCM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 50.591106

MFS Charter Income Trust (the Fund) is a closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s investment objective is to seek high current income, but may also consider capital appreciation. It maintains a portfolio that includes investments in investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds, the United States Government securities, and international investment-grade and emerging markets debt securities. It invests its assets primarily in debt instruments. The Fund may invest its assets in the United States Government securities, foreign government securities, mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities of United States and/or foreign issuers, corporate bonds of United States and/or foreign issuers, and/or debt instruments of issuers located in emerging market countries. It may invest up to 100% of its assets in lower-quality debt instruments. It may also invest in mortgage dollar rolls. The Fund?s investment advisor is Massachusetts Financial Services Company.

• PDC, PIONEER DRILLING Current Caprock Strength Rating: 7.302444

Pioneer Drilling Company, provides drilling services and production services to independent and major oil and gas exploration and production companies throughout the United States and internationally in Colombia. It also provides drilling crews and ancillary equipment needed to operate the Company?s drilling rigs. The Company operates in two business segments; Drilling Services Division and Production Services Division. On March 1, 2008, the Company acquired WEDGE Group Incorporated (WEDGE) and Prairie Investors d/b/a Competition Wireline (Competition). On August 29, 2008, the Company acquired the wireline services business from Paltec, Inc. On October 1, 2008, it acquired the well services business from Pettus Well Service.

• UVV, UNIVERSAL CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 31.137901

Universal Corporation (Universal) is a leaf tobacco merchant and processor. Universal in engaged in procurement, processing, packing and supply of flue-cured and burley leaf tobacco to manufacturers of consumer tobacco products. Universal?s primary subsidiary is Universal Leaf Tobacco Company, Incorporated. The Company operates in three reportable segments, North America, Other Regions and Other Tobacco Operations. Through various operating subsidiaries and affiliates located in tobacco-growing countries around the world, Universal processes and sells flue-cured and burley tobaccos, dark air-cured tobaccos, and oriental tobaccos. It also provides value-added services to its customers, including blending, chemical and physical testing of tobacco, just-in-time inventory management, and manufacturing reconstituted sheet tobacco.

• LIHR, LIHIR GOLD LTD AD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 94.448135

Lihir Gold Limited (LGL) is engaged in the exploration for, development of and mining and processing of gold assets. The Company has operations in Papua New Guinea, Australia and West Africa. LGL operates gold mines and processing facilities on the island of Lihir, 900 kilometres north-east of Port Moresby in New Ireland province of Papua New Guinea. The Lihir ore body has an estimated 40 million ounces in resource including 23.6 million ounces in reserves. The Ballarat operation is an advanced exploration project with 1.5 million ounces in resource and 9.2 million ounces in exploration potential. During the year ended December 31, 2008, LGL group had four mines operating in three countries producing at a combined rate of more than 1 million ounces of gold per year. Gold production during 2008, was 882,000 ounces. In June 2008, the Company acquired 100% of Equigold Pty Limited (Equigold). Equigold has five subsidiary companies.

• CRK, COMSTOCK RES Current Caprock Strength Rating: 88.390938

Comstock Resources, Inc. (Comstock) is engaged in the acquisition, development, production and exploration of oil and natural gas. The Company?s oil and gas operations are concentrated in east Texas/north Louisiana and south Texas regions. Its oil and natural gas properties have proved reserves of 581.7 billion cubic feet equivalent (Bcfe) as of December 31, 2008. Its consolidated proved oil and natural gas reserve base is 90% natural gas and 67% proved developed on a Bcfe basis as of December 31, 2008. In August 2008, Comstock divested its interests in its offshore oil and gas properties through the sale of Bois d?Arc Energy, Inc.

• OLN, OLIN CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 16.668947

Olin Corporation is a manufacturer concentrated in two business segments: Chlor Alkali Products and Winchester. Chlor Alkali Products manufactures and sells chlorine and caustic soda, sodium hydrosulfite, hydrochloric acid, hydrogen, bleach products and potassium hydroxide. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Chlor Alkali Products segment represents 72% of its sales. The Winchester products segment represents 28% of its 2008 sales. The Winchester products segment includes sporting ammunition, reloading components, small caliber military ammunition and components, and industrial cartridges. Its subsidiary, PCI Chemicals Canada Company/Societe PCI Chimie Canada, operates one chlor alkali facility in Becancour, Canada, which sells chlor alkali-related products within Canada and to the United States. The Company?s another subsidiary, Winchester Australia Limited, loads and packs sporting and industrial ammunition in Australia.

• WLT, WALTER INDS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 203.552536

Walter Energy, Inc. (Walter Energy), formerly Walter Industries, Inc., is a producer and exporter of premium United States metallurgical coal for the global steel industry. The Company also produces steam coal and industrial coal, metallurgical coke and coal bed methane gas. The Company, through its operating segments, offers products and services, including coal and natural gas, metallurgical coke, mortgage financing and home construction. Its segments include Natural Resources, Sloss, Financing, Homebuilding and Other. The Natural Resources segment consists primarily of Jim Walter Resources, Inc., Tuscaloosa Resources, Inc., Taft Coal Sales & Associates and United Land Corporation. The Financing segment includes Walter Mortgage Company, services non-conforming instalment notes and loans that are secured by mortgages and liens. The Homebuilding segment includes Jim Walter Homes, Inc., which is an on-your-lot homebuilder. On September 2, 2008, it acquired Taft Coal Sales & Associates.

• IIF, MS INDIA INV FD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 42.700409

Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s investment objective is long-term capital appreciation through investments primarily in equity securities of Indian issuers. It will invest in currency spot, forward and non-deliverable forward transactions. The Fund may write covered call and put options on portfolio securities and other financial instruments. The Fund may invest in unregistered or otherwise restricted securities. It invests in industries, such as automobiles, commercial banks, electrical equipment, food products, information technology services, media, pharmaceuticals and wireless telecommunication services. The Fund?s investment advisor and administrator is Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc.

• IMO, IMPERIAL OIL LMT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 80.015816

Imperial Oil Limited (Imperial) is a Canada-based integrated oil company. The Company is engaged in the exploration for, and production and sale of, crude oil and natural gas; refining and marketing of petroleum products, and supplying petrochemicals. The Company?s operations are conducted in three main segments: Upstream, Downstream and Chemical. Upstream operations include the exploration for, and production of, conventional crude oil, natural gas, upgraded crude oil and heavy oil. Downstream operations consist of the transportation, refining and blending of crude oil and refined products, and the distribution and marketing thereof. The Chemical operations consist of the manufacturing and marketing of various petrochemicals. As of December 31, 2008, Exxon Mobil Corporation owned approximately 69.6% of the outstanding shares of the Company.

• ACG, ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 49.761440

AllianceBernstein Income Fund Inc. (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to provide high current income consistent with the preservation of capital. The Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in income-producing securities. The Fund normally invests at least 65% of its total assets in securities issued or guaranteed by the United States Government, its agencies or instrumentalities, and repurchase agreements pertaining to the United States Government securities. The Fund may also invest up to 35% of its total assets in other fixed-income securities, including those issued by non-governmental issuers in the United States and those issued by foreign governments. The Fund may invest up to 35% of its net assets in below-investment grade securities. In addition, the Fund may utilize other investment instruments, including options, swaps, forwards and futures. The Fund?s investment advisor is AllianceBernstein L.P.

• MGF, M F S GOVT MKT TR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 209.870056

MFS Government Markets Income Trust (the Fund) is a closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s investment objective is to seek high current income, but it may also consider capital appreciation. It maintains a portfolio that includes investments in the United States Government securities, mortgage-backed securities, international and emerging markets debt securities, and the United States investment-grade corporate bonds. The Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in the United States and foreign government securities. It may invest its assets in other types of debt instruments. The Fund invests substantially all of its assets in investment-grade debt instruments. It may invest a relatively high percentage of its assets in a single country, a small number of countries, or a particular geographic region. The Fund?s investment advisor is Massachusetts Financial Services Company.

• BK, BANK OF N Y CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 33.957783

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation is a global financial services company with approximately $928 billion in assets under management and $20.2 trillion in assets under custody and administration. On July 1, 2007, The Bank of New York Company, Inc. and Mellon Financial Corporation (Mellon Financial) merged into The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (the Company), with The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation being the surviving entity. On July 1, 2008, the Company completed the process of consolidating and renaming the principal United States bank and trust company subsidiaries into two principal banks: The Bank of New York Mellon (the Bank) and BNY Mellon, National Association (BNY Mellon, N.A.). The Company operates its business into seven business segments: asset management, wealth management, asset servicing, issuer services, clearing services, treasury services and others. In March 2009, it acquired JPMorgan Trust Bank Limited in Japan from JPMorgan Chase & Co.

• TX, TERNIUM S.A. ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.619476

Ternium S.A. (Ternium) is engaged in investments in flat and long steel manufacturing and distributing companies.The Company has three segments: flat steel products, long steel products and others. The flat steel products segment comprises the manufacturing and marketing of flat steel products. The long steel products segment comprises the manufacturing and marketing of long steel products. The other products segment includes the products other than flat and long steel, mainly pig iron, pellets and pre-engineered metal buildings. The Company?s subsidiaries include Ternium Mexico S.A. de C.V., Acerex S.A. de C.V., Hylsa S.A. de C.V. In May 2009, the Company announced the completion of the transfer of its entire 59.7% interest in Sidor, C.A. to Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana.

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• TIP, ISHARES LEHMAN TI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 211.759079
• PGH, PENGROWTH EGY UTS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 14.609730

Pengrowth Energy Trust (the Trust) is a Canada-based open-end investment trust. The purpose of the Trust is to directly and indirectly explore for, develop and hold interests in petroleum and natural gas properties, through investments in securities, royalty units, net profits interests and notes issued by subsidiaries of the Trust. The activities of Pengrowth Corporation (the Corporation) and its subsidiaries are financed by issuance of royalty units and interest bearing notes to the Trust and third party debt. The Trust owns all of the royalty units and 91% of the common shares of the Corporation. Pengrowth Management Limited is the Trust?s investment manager.

• EQT, EQUITABLE RES INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 178.694778

EQT Corporation (EQT), formerly Equitable Resources, Inc. is an exploration and production company. As of December 31, 2008, the Company had over three trillion cubic feet of proved reserves. The Company and its subsidiaries offer energy products, including natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and an amount of crude oil and services to wholesale and retail customers in the United States. The Company operates in three business segments: EQT Production, EQT Midstream and Equitable Distribution. The Company?s reserves are located entirely in the Appalachian Basin.

• MPW, MEDICL PROP TRST Current Caprock Strength Rating: 21.105686

Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (Medical Properties) is a self-advised real estate investment trust (REIT) that acquires, develops, leases and makes other investments in healthcare facilities providing healthcare services. The Company leases its facilities to healthcare operators pursuant to long-term, net leases. Medical Properties also makes long-term, interest-only mortgage loans to healthcare operators, and from time to time, it also makes working capital and acquisition loans to its tenants. The Company conducts all of its business through its wholly owned subsidiaries, MPT Operating Partnership, L.P. and MPT Development Services, Inc. As of December 31, 2008, the Company?s portfolio consisted of 51 properties, including 48 facilities, which it owns are leased to 14 operators and the remaining in the form of mortgage loans to two operators, totaling an aggregate of approximately 5.3 million square feet and 5,115 licensed beds.

• MLHR, MILLER HERMAN INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.001966

Herman Miller, Inc. researches, designs, manufactures, and distributes interior furnishings, for use in various environments, including office, healthcare, educational, and residential settings, and provides related services that support organizations and individuals all over the world. The Company also offers an array of seating, storage, wooden casegoods and freestanding furniture products. The Company operates in three segments: the North American Furniture Solutions segment includes the business associated with the design, manufacture, and sale of furniture products for office and healthcare environments throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico; the Non-North American Furniture Solutions segment includes the business associated with the design, manufacture, and sale of furniture products primarily for work-related settings outside North America, and the Other segment includes North American residential furniture business, as well as other business activities.

• IHS, IHS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 339.527802

IHS Inc. (IHS) is a provider and source of Critical Information and Insight in the global information market. The Company provides information-driven solutions to meet its customers’ needs, which include providing insight into global energy market movements, managing product lifecycles, meeting growing environmental challenges, assessing national or corporate security issues. IHS customers range from governments and multinational corporations to small companies and technical professionals, doing business in more than 180 countries. At the center of its Critical Information products and services is data obtained from public sources, third parties and its own databases. The Company transforms that data into Critical Information and Insight that is both useful to its customers and available where and when they need it by combining data with the Company?s and third-party technology to create graphical user interfaces, interactive search and navigation tools, and online databases.

• CPRT, COPART INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 331.873871

Copart, Inc. is a provider of vehicle remarketing services in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. The Company provides vehicle sellers with a range of remarketing services to process and sell vehicles over the Internet through the Company?s Virtual Bidding Second Generation Internet auction-style sales technology, which it refers to as VB2. The Company sells principally to licensed vehicle dismantlers, rebuilders, repair licensees, used vehicle dealers and exporters and, at certain locations, it sells directly to the general public. In United States, it sells vehicles primarily as an agent and derive revenue primarily from sales transaction fees paid by vehicle suppliers and vehicle buyers, as well as related fees for services, such as towing and storage. In United Kingdom, it operates primarily on a principal basis, purchasing the salvage vehicle outright from the insurance companies and reselling the vehicle for its own account.

• PCN, PIMCO CORP INC FD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.610695

PIMCO Corporate Income Fund (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s primary investment objective is to seek high current income with capital preservation and capital appreciation as secondary objectives by investing at least 80% of its total assets in a diversified portfolio of United States dollar-denominated corporate debt obligations of varying maturities and other income-producing securities. PIMCO Corporate Income Fund may purchase and write (sell) put and call options. The Fund?s investment manager is Allianz Global Investors Fund Management LLC, an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Allianz Global Investors of America L.P. The Fund?s sub-adviser is Pacific Investment Management Company LLC.

• FLO, FLOWERS FOODS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 72.814384

Flowers Foods, Inc. (Flowers Foods) is a producer and marketer of bakery products in the United States. Flowers Foods consists of two business segments: direct-store-delivery (DSD) and warehouse delivery. DSD segment focuses on producing and marketing bakery products to the United States customers in the southeast, mid-Atlantic, and southwest, as well as select markets in California and Nevada primarily through its direct-store-delivery system. The warehouse delivery segment produces snack cakes for sale to co-pack, retail and vending customers, as well as frozen bread, rolls and buns for sale to retail and foodservice customers primarily through warehouse distribution. On August 4, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of ButterKrust Bakery. On August 11, 2008, the Company merged with Holsum Holdings, LLC. (Holsum).

• SNH, SENIOR HSG SBI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 63.017380

Senior Housing Properties Trust (Senior Housing) is a real estate investment trust (REIT). As of December 31, 2008, the Company owned 271 properties located in 34 states and Washington, D.C. The Company owns independent living and assisted living communities, continuing care retirement communities, nursing homes, wellness centers, and medical office, clinic and biotech laboratory buildings located throughout the United States.

• WMB, WILLIAMS COS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 35.454456

The Williams Companies, Inc. is a natural gas company. It primarily finds, produces, gathers, processes and transports natural gas. Its operations are concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountains, Gulf Coast, the Eastern Seaboard, and the province of Alberta in Canada. Its activities are primarily operated through business segments, which include Exploration & Production, Gas Pipeline, Midstream Gas & Liquids, Gas Marketing Services and Other. Exploration & Production produces, develops and manages natural gas reserves. Gas Pipeline includes its interstate natural gas pipelines and pipeline joint venture investments organized under its wholly owned subsidiary, Williams Gas Pipeline Company, LLC (WGP). Midstream Gas & Liquids includes its natural gas gathering, treating and processing business. Gas Marketing Services manages its natural gas commodity risk through purchases, sales and other related transactions, under its wholly owned subsidiary Williams Gas Marketing, Inc.

• MDR, MCDERMOTT INT PAN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 58.341206

McDermott International, Inc. (MII) is an engineering and construction company with specialty manufacturing and service capabilities. MII provides a variety of products and services to customers in the energy and power industries, including utilities and other power generators, and national oil companies, and the United States Government. MII is the parent company of the McDermott group of companies, including J. Ray McDermott, S.A. (JRMSA) and The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W). The Company operates in three business segments: Offshore Oil and Gas Construction, Government Operations and Power Generation Systems. On December 31, 2008, the Company?s Government Operations segment completed its acquisition of Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., a provider of specialty nuclear fuels and related services.

• CVD, COVANCE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 154.708130

Covance Inc. is a drug development services company providing a range of early-stage and late-stage product development services on a worldwide basis primarily to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The Company also provides laboratory testing services to the chemical, agrochemical and food industries. Covance maintains offices in more than 20 countries. The services it provides constitute two segments: early development services, which include preclinical services and clinical pharmacology services, and late-stage development services, which include central laboratory, clinical development, periapproval and market access services. It provides product development services on a global basis to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company served in excess of 300 biopharmaceutical companies. In March 2009, it acquired Swiss Pharma Contract, a 50-bed clinical research company based in Switzerland.

• ISBC, INVESTORS BANCORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 93.468834

Investors Bancorp, Inc. is a holding company for Investors Savings Bank (the Bank), a New Jersey chartered savings bank. The Bank is engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the public through its branch network and borrowing funds in the wholesale markets to originate loans and to invest in securities. It originates mortgage loans secured by one-to four-family residential real estate and consumer loans, the majority of which are home equity loans and home equity lines of credit. The Bank has expanded its lending activities to include commercial real estate, construction, multi-family loans, and commercial and industrial loans. It offers a variety of deposit accounts. On June 6, 2008, the Company completed its merger of Summit Federal Bankshares, Inc. (Summit Federal), the federally-chartered holding company for Summit Federal Savings Bank. Effective May 31, 2009, Investors Bancorp, Inc. completed the acquisition of American Bancorp of New Jersey, Inc.

• WDC, WESTERN DIGITAL C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 111.287331

Western Digital Corporation (WD) designs, develops, manufactures and sells hard drives. It sells its products worldwide to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufactures (ODMs) for use in computer systems, subsystems or consumer electronics (CE) devices, and to distributors, resellers and retailers. The Company?s hard drives are used in desktop computers, notebook computers and enterprise applications, such as servers, workstations, network attached storage, storage area networks and video surveillance equipment. Additionally, its hard drives are used in CE applications, such as digital video recorders, and satellite and cable set-top boxes. It markets its hard drives under brand names, including WD Caviar, WD Raptor, WD VelociRaptor, WD Scorpio, WD Elements, My Passport, My Book, My DVR Expander and GreenPower. In March 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of SiliconSystems, Inc., a supplier of solid state drives for the embedded systems market.

• DKS, DICK’S SPORTING G Current Caprock Strength Rating: 43.393806

Dick?s Sporting Goods, Inc. (Dick?s) is a full-line sporting goods retailer that offers an assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel, and footwear in a specialty store environment. As of January 31, 2009, the Company operated 384 Dick?s Sporting Goods stores in 39 states, 89 Golf Galaxy stores in 31 states, and 14 Chick?s Sporting Goods stores in California. Dick?s carry a variety of brands, including Nike, North Face, Columbia, adidas, TaylorMade, Callaway and Under Armour, as well as private label products sold under names, such as Ativa, Maxfli, Tailgate Gear and Walter Hagen, and private brand products, such as its exclusive lines of Nike ACG, Slazenger, Umbro, Reebok, Field & Stream and adidas baseball merchandise, which are available only in the Company?s stores.

• ME, MARINER ENERGY IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 81.037033

Mariner Energy, Inc. (Mariner) is an independent oil and gas exploration, development, and production company. The Company operates in three principal geographic areas: Permian Basin, where it is an active driller in the prolific Spraberry field at depths between 6,000 and 10,000 feet; Gulf of Mexico Deepwater, where it has conducted exploration and development projects in water depths ranging from 1,300 feet up to 7,000 feet, and Gulf of Mexico Shelf, where it drills or participates in conventional shelf wells and deep shelf wells extending to 1,300 foot water depths. On December 19, 2008, Mariner acquired additional working interests in its property, Atwater Valley Block 426 (Bass Lite). On February 29, 2008 and December 1, 2008, Mariner acquired additional working interests in certain of its properties in the Spraberry field in the Permian Basin.

• CNMD, CONMED CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 10.493885

CONMED Corporation (CONMED) is a medical technology company with an emphasis on surgical devices and equipment for minimally invasive procedures and monitoring. The Company?s products serve the clinical areas of arthroscopy, powered surgical instruments, electrosurgery, patient care, endosurgery and endoscopic technologies. CONMED?s products are used by surgeons and physicians in a variety of specialties including orthopedics, general surgery, gynecology, neurosurgery, and gastroenterology.

• UIL, UIL HLDGS CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.508133

UIL Holdings Corporation (UIL Holdings), is engaged in operating its regulated utility business. The utility business consists of the electric transmission and distribution operations of The United Illuminating Company (UI). UIL Holdings also has a non-utility business, United Capital Investments, Inc. (UCI), which primarily holds passive minority ownership interests in two investment funds. As of December 31, 2008, the non-utility businesses included a minority ownership interest in Bridgeport Energy, LLC (BE) held by United Bridgeport Energy, Inc. (UBE), until the completion of the sale of that interest to an affiliate of Duke Energy on March 28, 2006; UCI?s minority ownership interest in Cross-Sound Cable Company, LLC (Cross-Sound) until the completion of the sale of that interest to Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Ltd. on February 27, 2006, and the operations of Xcelecom, Inc. (Xcelecom), until the sale of that business effective December 31, 2006.

• NBR, NABORS INDS INC N Current Caprock Strength Rating: 24.269753

Nabors Industries Limited (Nabors) is a global land drilling contractor, approximately 528 actively marketed land drilling rigs. The Company conducts oil, gas and geothermal land drilling operations in the United States Lower 48 states, Alaska, Canada, South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, the Middle East, the Far East, Russia and Africa. Nabors is engaged in the land well-servicing and contracting in the United States and Canada. The Company market approximately 592 land workover and well-servicing rigs in the United States, primarily in the southwestern and western United States, and actively market approximately 171 land workover and well-servicing rigs in Canada. Nabors is a provider of offshore platform workover and drilling rigs, and actively markets 37 platform rigs, 13 jack-up units and three barge rigs in the United States and multiple international markets. The Company has a 51% ownership interest in a joint venture in Saudi Arabia.

• MUR, MURPHY OIL CP HLD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 106.178574

Murphy Oil Corporation (Murphy) is a worldwide oil and gas exploration and production company, with refining and marketing operations in the United States and the United Kingdom. Its operations are classified into two business activities: Exploration and Production, and Refining and Marketing. Murphy?s exploration and production activities are subdivided into six geographic segments, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Ecuador and all other countries. Murphy?s refining and marketing activities are subdivided into geographic segments for North America and United Kingdom. In November 2008, the Company acquired a 70% interest and operatorship of a second Browse Basin exploration permit in Block WA-423-P.

• GLDN, GOLDEN TELECOM IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 330.825806
• GENZ, GENZYME CORPORATI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 46.892391

Genzyme Corporation (Genzyme) is a biotechnology company. Genzyme operates in four segments: Genetic Diseases, Cardiometabolic and Renal, Biosurgery and Hematologic Oncology. Genetic Diseases unit develops, manufactures and distributes therapeutic products, with a focus on products to treat patients suffering from genetic diseases and other chronic debilitating diseases, including a family of diseases known as lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs). Cardiometabolic and Renal segment develops, manufactures and distributes products that treat patients suffering from renal diseases, including chronic renal failure and endocrine and cardiovascular diseases. Biosurgery segment develops, manufactures and distributes biotherapeutics and biomaterial-based products, with a focus on products that meet medical needs in the orthopaedics and broader surgical areas. Hematologic Oncology segment develops, manufactures and distributes products for the treatment of cancer.

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• FXE, CURRENCYSHARES EU Current Caprock Strength Rating: 439.070251
• BVN, COMPANIA MIN BUEN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 292.412750

Compania De Minas Buenaventura S.A.A. (BVN) is a precious metals company, engaged in the exploration, mining and processing of gold, silver and, to a lesser extent, other metals, in Peru. The Company operates the Julcani, Recuperada, Orcopampa, Poracota, Uchucchacua, Antapite and Ishihuinca mines and has controlling interests in two other mining companies, which operate the Colquijirca, Marcapunta and Shila-Paula mines. The Company also owns an electric power transmission company and an engineering services consulting company, and has minority interests in several other mining companies, including a significant ownership interest in Yanacocha, a Peruvian partnership that operates gold mine in South America, and Cerro Verde, a Peruvian company that operates a copper mine located in the south of Peru.

• SO, SOUTHERN CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 59.364277

The Southern Company (Southern Company) owns all of the outstanding common stock of Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, and Mississippi Power, each of which is an operating public utility company. The traditional operating companies supply electric service in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. In addition, Southern Company owns all of the common stock of Southern Power, which is also an operating public utility company. Southern Power constructs, acquires, owns, and manages generation assets and sells electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market. Southern Company also owns all the outstanding common stock or membership interests of SouthernLINC Wireless, Southern Nuclear, Southern Company Services, Inc., Southern Holdings and other direct and indirect subsidiaries. In June 2008, Southern Power completed construction on Plant Franklin Unit 3, which added 659 megawatts to the Southern Company system generating capacity.

• AME, AMETEK INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 14.285336

AMETEK, Inc. (AMETEK) is a global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices with operations in North America, Europe, Asia and South America. The Company markets its products worldwide through two operating groups: the Electronic Instruments Group (EIG) and the Electromechanical Group (EMG). EIG builds monitoring, testing, calibration and display devices for the process, aerospace, industrial and power markets. EMG is a supplier of electromechanical devices. EMG produces highly engineered electromechanical connectors for hermetic (moisture-proof) applications, specialty metals for markets, and brushless air-moving motors, blowers and heat exchangers. End markets include aerospace, defense, mass transit, medical, office products and other industrial markets. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company acquired Drake Air, Motion Control Group, Vision Research, Inc., programmable power business of Xantrex Technology, Inc. and Muirhead Aerospace Limited.

• BBL, BHP BILLITON SP A Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.693428

BHP Billiton plc is a diversified natural resources company. The Company has businesses producing alumina and aluminum, copper, energy (thermal) coal, iron ore, nickel, manganese, metallurgical coal, oil and gas and uranium, as well as gold, zinc, lead, silver and diamonds. The Company operates in nine customer sector groups (CSGs): petroleum, aluminum, base metals, diamonds and specialty products, stainless steel materials, iron ore; manganese, metallurgical coal, and energy coal. In July 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of Anglo Potash Ltd.

• PNY, PIEDMONT NAT GAS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 25.514160

Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc. (Piedmont) is an energy services company primarily engaged in the distribution of natural gas to over one million residential, commercial and industrial customers in portions of North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, including 62,000 customers served by municipalities who are its wholesale customers. The Company has also invested in joint venture, energy-related businesses, including unregulated retail natural gas marketing, interstate natural gas storage and intrastate natural gas transportation. Piedmont operates in two business segments: regulated utility and non-utility activities. The regulated utility segment is the largest segment of the Company?s business accounting for approximately 97% of Piedmont?s consolidated assets. Operations of its non-utility activities segment consist of its equity method investments in joint ventures. Operations of both segments are conducted within the United States.

• BKT, BLACKROCK INCOME Current Caprock Strength Rating: 60.136936

BlackRock Income Trust, Inc. (the Trust) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Trust?s seeks to provide monthly income while preserving capital by investing in a portfolio of mortgage-backed securities. The Trust?s portfolio include United States Government agency mortgage-backed securities, United States Government agency mortgage-backed securities – collateralized mortgage obligations, non-United States Government agency mortgage backed securities, United States Government and agency obligations, and asset-backed securities.

• TKC, TURKCELL ILET NEW Current Caprock Strength Rating: 112.638435

Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S. (Turkcell) is a provider of mobile services in Turkey. The Company provides mobile voice and data services over its global system for mobile communications network. As of December 31, 2008, Turkcell provided service to its subscribers in 202 countries through commercial roaming agreements with 607 operators. The Company provides wireless and value-added mobile communications services to subscribers throughout Turkey. Subscribers can choose between its postpaid and pre-paid services. As of December 31, 2008, Turkcell had approximately 29.5 million pre-paid subscribers and 7.5 million postpaid subscribers. The Company has investments in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and also in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Ukraine and Belarus. In August 2008, Turkcell announced that it had completed the acquisition of an 80% stake in Belarusian Telecommunications Network (BEST).

• MBT, MOBILE TELSYS OJS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 94.943077

Mobile TeleSystems OJSC is a provider of mobile cellular communications services in Russia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Armenia and Ukraine. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company had a subscriber base of 91.33 million (64.63 million in Russia, 18.12 million in Ukraine, 5.65 million in Uzbekistan, 0.93 million in Turkmenistan and 2.02 million in Armenia). In addition to standard voice services, the Company offers its subscribers value added services, including voice mail, short message service (SMS), general packet radio service (GPRS), augmented by enhanced data rates for GSM evolution (EDGE), high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA), and various SMS- and GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA-based information and entertainment services (including multi media message service (MMS)). It also offers its subscribers the ability to roam automatically throughout Europe and in much of the rest of the world.

• FORR, FORRESTER RESRCH Current Caprock Strength Rating: 25.737383

Forrester Research, Inc. is an independent research company that provides advice to global companies in business and technology. The Company’s products and services are targeted to 19 specific roles, including senior management, business strategists, and marketing and information technology professionals. Research serves as the foundation for all the Company?s offerings and consists primarily of annual memberships to its syndicated research offering RoleView, which provides access to its core research on a range of business and technology issues. In addition to RoleView, the Company also provides a portfolio of products and services that allow its clients to interact directly with analysts and their peers and explore in detail the issues and topics covered by RoleView on a role and client-specific basis. In July 2008, the Company acquired JupiterResearch, LLC, and its parent company, JUPR Holdings, Inc.

• FXE, CURRENCYSHARES EU Current Caprock Strength Rating: 439.070251
• PQ, PETROQUEST ENERGY Current Caprock Strength Rating: 10.731385

PetroQuest Energy, Inc. is an independent oil and gas company with operations in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and the Gulf Coast Basin. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company drilled 109 gross exploratory wells and 41 gross development wells.

• FTI, FMC TECHNOLOGIES Current Caprock Strength Rating: 73.609726

FMC Technologies, Inc. (FMC Technologies) is a global provider of technology solutions for the energy industry. The Company designs, manufactures and services systems and products, such as subsea production and processing systems, surface wellhead production systems, high-pressure fluid control equipment, measurement solutions, and marine loading systems for the oil and gas industry. The Company operates in two segments: Energy Production Systems and Energy Processing Systems. On July 31, 2008, FMC Technologies completed the spin-off of its FoodTech and Airport Systems businesses into John Bean Technologies Corporation.

• HBHC, HANCOCK HLDG CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 7.951651

Hancock Holding Company is a bank holding company. As of December 31, 2008, the Company operated more than 157 banking and financial services offices, and more than 137 automated teller machines (ATMs) in the states of Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida and Alabama through four wholly owned bank subsidiaries: Hancock Bank, Gulfport, Mississippi, Hancock Bank of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Hancock Bank of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida and Hancock Bank of Alabama, Mobile, Alabama (collectively, the Banks). The Banks are community oriented and focus primarily on offering commercial, consumer and mortgage loans and deposit services to individuals and small to middle market businesses in their respective market areas.

• RTN, RAYTHEON CO (NEW) Current Caprock Strength Rating: 561.782532

Raytheon Company designs, develops, manufactures, integrates, supports and provides a range of products, services and solutions for principally governmental customers in the United States and worldwide. The Company operates in six business segments: Integrated Defense Systems (IDS), Intelligence and Information Systems (ibis’), Missile Systems (MS), Network Centric Systems (NCS), Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) and Technical Services (TS). In April 2008, the Company acquired SI Government Solutions. In July 2008, Raytheon Company acquired Telemus Solutions, Inc., a provider of information security, intelligence and technical services to defense, intelligence and other federal customers.

• EXC, EXELON CORPORATIO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1.499933

Exelon Corporation (Exelon) is a utility services holding company. It operates through its principal subsidiaries Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Generation), Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd) and PECO Energy Company (PECO). Generation?s business consists of its owned and contracted electric generating facilities, its wholesale energy marketing operations and its retail supply operations. ComEd?s energy delivery business consists of the purchase and regulated retail sale of electricity and the provision of distribution and transmission services to retail customers in northern Illinois, including the City of Chicago. PECO?s energy delivery business consists of the purchase and regulated retail sale of electricity and the provision of transmission and distribution services to retail customers in southeastern Pennsylvania, including the City of Philadelphia.

• SJI, SOUTH JERSEY IND Current Caprock Strength Rating: 10.902923

South Jersey Industries, Inc. (SJI) is an energy services holding company that provides a variety of energy related products and services through its five wholly owned subsidiaries: South Jersey Gas Company (SJG), South Jersey Energy Company (SJE), South Jersey Resources Group, LLC (SJRG), Marina Energy, LLC (Marina) and South Jersey Energy Service Plus, LLC (SJESP). SJI operates in several operating segments. Gas Utility Operations (SJG) consists primarily of natural gas distribution to residential, commercial and industrial customers. Wholesale Gas Operations include SJRG?s activities. SJE is involved in both retail gas and retail electric activities. Retail Gas and Other Operations include natural gas acquisition and transportation service business lines. Retail Electric Operations consist of electricity acquisition and transportation to commercial and industrial customers. On-Site Energy Production consists of Marina?s thermal energy facility and other energy-related projects.

• SIAL, SIGMA ALDRICH CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 588.294434

Sigma-Aldrich Corporation develops, manufactures, purchases and distributes a range of biochemicals and organic chemicals and equipment throughout the world. These chemical products and kits are used in scientific and genomic and proteomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of disease and as key components in pharmaceutical and other high-technology manufacturing. The Company operates in 37 countries, manufacturing 46,000 of the 100,000 chemical products it offers. The Company also offers 30,000 equipment products. It sells into over 160 countries. The Company has four business units: Research Essentials, Research Specialties, Research Biotech and a Fine Chemicals unit (SAFC). In March 2009, the Company acquired the non core electrophoresis business from NextGen Group plc. In March 2009, the Company acquired Sigal Ltda, its primary distributor in Chile, and established Sigma-Aldrich Quimica Ltda.

• URBN, URBAN OUTFITTERS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.870598

Urban Outfitters, Inc. is a lifestyle specialty retail company that operates under the Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People and Terrain brands. The Company also operates a wholesale segment under the Free People and Leifsdottir brands. In addition to its retail stores, the Company offers its products and markets its brands directly to the consumer through its e-commerce Websites, www.urbanoutfitters.com, www.anthropologie.com, www.freepeople.com and www.urbanoutfitters.co.uk, and also through its Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and Free People catalogs. During the year ended January 31, 2009 (fiscal 2009), the Company launched Leifsdottir, the wholesale division of its Anthropologie brand.

• ME, MARINER ENERGY IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 81.037033

Mariner Energy, Inc. (Mariner) is an independent oil and gas exploration, development, and production company. The Company operates in three principal geographic areas: Permian Basin, where it is an active driller in the prolific Spraberry field at depths between 6,000 and 10,000 feet; Gulf of Mexico Deepwater, where it has conducted exploration and development projects in water depths ranging from 1,300 feet up to 7,000 feet, and Gulf of Mexico Shelf, where it drills or participates in conventional shelf wells and deep shelf wells extending to 1,300 foot water depths. On December 19, 2008, Mariner acquired additional working interests in its property, Atwater Valley Block 426 (Bass Lite). On February 29, 2008 and December 1, 2008, Mariner acquired additional working interests in certain of its properties in the Spraberry field in the Permian Basin.

• DTV, THE DIRECTV GROUP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 46.242550

The DIRECTV Group, Inc. is a provider of digital television entertainment in the United States and Latin America. The Company operates in two segments, DIRECTV U.S. and DIRECTV Latin America (DTVLA), which are engaged in acquiring, promoting, selling and/or distributing digital entertainment programming through satellite to residential and commercial subscribers. In July 2008, the Company acquired 180 Connect Inc., pursuant to which it became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. In a related transaction, UniTek USA, LLC acquired 180 Connect’s cable services operating unit and certain DIRECTV installation services from DIRECTV, in exchange for UniTek’s satellite installation services in New York, and Burbank and Bloomington in California. As of December 31, 2008, Liberty Media Corporation owned approximately 53.6% interest in the Company.

• LG, LACLEDE GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 56.185394

The Laclede Group, Inc. (Laclede Group) is a public utility holding company. Laclede Group is committed to providing natural gas service through its regulated core utility operations, while engaging in non-regulated activities that provide sustainable growth. All of the Company?s subsidiaries are wholly owned. The Regulated Gas Distribution segment includes Laclede Gas Company (Laclede Gas or the Utility), Laclede Group?s largest subsidiary and core business unit. Laclede Gas is a public utility engaged in the retail distribution and sale of natural gas. The Non-Regulated Gas Marketing segment includes Laclede Energy Resources, Inc. (LER), a subsidiary engaged in the non-regulated marketing of natural gas and related activities. Other non-regulated subsidiaries provide less than 10% of revenues. In March 2008, Laclede Group announced that it has closed on the sale of 100% of its interest in SM&P Utility Resources, Inc.

• ONB, OLD NATIONAL BANC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 24.371874

Old National Bancorp (Old National) is a financial holding company. The Company, through its wholly-owned banking subsidiary, provides range of services, including commercial and consumer loan and depository services, investment and brokerage services, lease financing and other traditional banking services. Through its non-bank affiliates, the Company provides services to supplement the banking business including fiduciary and wealth management services, insurance and other financial services. Old National Bank is its wholly owned banking subsidiary. It provides financial services primarily in Indiana, eastern and southeastern Illinois, and central and western Kentucky. The Company operates in two segments: community banking and treasury.

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• MCRS, MICROS SYSTEMS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 65.635223

MICROS Systems, Inc. (MICROS) is a designer, manufacturer, marketer and servicer of enterprise information solutions for the global hospitality and specialty retail industries. Its enterprise solutions comprise three major areas: hotel information systems, restaurant information systems and specialty retail information systems. The hotel information systems consist mainly of software encompassing property-based management systems (PMS), related property-specific modules and applications, and central systems, including central reservation systems (CRS). The restaurant information systems consist of hardware and software for point-of-sale (POS) and operational applications, a suite of back office applications, including inventory, labor and financial management, and certain centrally hosted enterprise applications. The specialty retail systems consist of software encompassing POS, loss prevention, business analytics, customer gift cards, and enterprise applications.

• CE, CELANESE CORPORAT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 45.033905

Celanese Corporation (Celanese) is an integrated producer of chemicals and advanced materials. It is a producer of acetyl products, which are intermediate chemicals for many industries, as well as a global producer of high performance engineered polymers that are used in a variety of end-use applications. Its operations are primarily located in North America, Europe and Asia. Celanese operates principally through four business segments: Advanced Engineered Materials, Consumer Specialties, Industrial Specialties and Acetyl Intermediates. Advanced Engineered Materials segment develops, produces and supplies a portfolio of high performance technical polymers. Consumer Specialties segment consists of its Acetate Products and Nutrinova businesses. Its Industrial Specialties segment includes its emulsions, polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) and AT Plastics businesses. Acetyl Intermediates segment produces and supplies acetyl products.

• GIL, GILDAN ACTIVEWEAR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 54.320969

Gildan Activewear Inc. (Gildan) is a marketer and manufacturer of activewear, socks and underwear. The Company is a supplier of activewear for the screenprint channel in the United States and Canada, and also a supplier for this market in Europe. The Company also sell socks and underwear, in addition to the activewear products, to mass-market and regional retailers in North America. In October 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of V.I. Prewett & Son, Inc. (Prewett). Prewett is also a manufacturer of basic family socks and supplies United States mass-market retailers.

• AKS, A K STEEL HLDG CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 168.714890

AK Steel Holding Corporation (AK Holding) is a producer of flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steels, and tubular products through its wholly owned subsidiary, AK Steel Corporation (AK Steel). The Company?s operations consist of seven steelmaking and finishing plants located in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania that produce flat-rolled carbon steels, including coated, cold-rolled and hot-rolled products, and specialty stainless and electrical steels that are sold in slab, hot band, and sheet and strip form. The Company?s operations also include AK Tube LLC (AK Tube), which further finishes flat-rolled carbon and stainless steel at two tube plants located in Ohio and Indiana into welded steel tubing used in the automotive, large truck and construction markets. In addition, the Company?s operations include European trading companies that buy and sell steel and steel products and other materials.

• CLHB, CLEAN HARBORS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 45.791763
• KNSY, KENSEY NASH CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 20.144695

Kensey Nash Corporation is a medical device company known for product development and technology in the fields of resorbable biomaterials used in a variety of medical procedures and endovascular devices. The Company provides a range of products into multiple medical markets, primarily in the cardiovascular markets, the orthopedic markets of sports medicine, spine and extremities, and the endovascular markets. The Company sells its products through partners and do not sell direct to the end user. On May 30, 2008, the Company completed the sale of its remaining endovascular business, including the ThromCat, QuickCat and SafeCross products, to The Spectranetics Corporation.

• DUC, DUFF PHELPS UTL B Current Caprock Strength Rating: 26.486977

Duff & Phelps Utility and Corporate Bond Trust Inc. (the Fund) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s investment objective is to seek high current income consistent with investing in securities of investment-grade quality. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing substantially all of its assets in a portfolio of Utility Income Securities, Corporate Income Securities, Mortgage-Backed Securities and Asset-Backed Securities. Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co., a subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners Inc., serves as the Fund?s investment advisor.

• EOG, EOG RESOURCES INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 137.551773

EOG Resources, Inc. (EOG), together with its subsidiaries, explores for, develops, produces and markets natural gas and crude oil primarily in the United States, Canada, Trinidad, the United Kingdom North Sea and other international areas. As of December 31, 2008, EOG?s total estimated net proved reserves were 8,689 billion cubic feet equivalent (Bcfe), of which 7,339 billion cubic feet (Bcf) were natural gas reserves and 225 million barrels (MMBbl) were crude oil, condensate and natural gas liquids reserves. At December 31, 2008, approximately 71% of EOG?s reserves (on a natural gas equivalent basis) were located in the United States, 15% in Canada and 14% in Trinidad.

• PXP, PLAINS EXPL&PROD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 30.217514

Plains Exploration & Production Company (PXP) is an independent oil and gas company primarily engaged in the activities of acquiring, developing, exploring and producing oil and gas properties primarily in the United States. The Company owns oil and gas properties with principal operations in Onshore California; Offshore California; the Gulf of Mexico; the Gulf Coast Region; the Mid-Continent Region, and the Rocky Mountains. As of December 31, 2008, the Company had estimated proved reserves of 292.1 million barrels of oil equivalent, of which 61% was comprised of oil and 72% was proved developed. During the three-year period ended December 31, 2008, PXP participated in 123 exploratory wells, of which 102 were successful, and 660 development wells, 652 of which were successful. The Company also has an interest in an exploration prospect offshore Vietnam.

• FCN, FTI CONSULTING IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 154.865845

FTI Consulting, Inc. (FTI) is a global business advisory firm. The Company assists its customers in addressing a range of business challenges, such as bankruptcy, restructuring, credit issues and indebtedness, mergers and acquisitions, interim business management, electronic discovery, management and retrieval of electronically stored information, reputation management, and strategic communications. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company had operations across 37 United States cities and 22 foreign countries, which includes Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, the British Virgin Islands, Canada, China (including Hong Kong), Colombia, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. FTI operates in five segments: Corporate Finance/Restructuring, Forensic and Litigation Consulting, Strategic Communications, Technology and Economic Consulting.

• BKMU, BANK MUTUAL CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 41.878338

Bank Mutual Corporation serves as a unitary savings and loan holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary, Bank Mutual (the Bank), a federal savings bank. The Bank is a community-oriented financial institution. Its principal business is originating mortgage loans, consumer loans, commercial real estate loans, and commercial business loans and attracting retail deposits from the general public. It also invests in various mortgage-related securities and investment securities. The principal lending is on one-to four-family, owner-occupied homes, home equity loans and lines of credit, automobile loans, multi-family and commercial real estate loans, and commercial business loans. During February 27, 2009, the Bank had 78 banking offices located in 31 counties in Wisconsin, in addition to a Minnesota bank office.

• IMO, IMPERIAL OIL LMT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 80.015816

Imperial Oil Limited (Imperial) is a Canada-based integrated oil company. The Company is engaged in the exploration for, and production and sale of, crude oil and natural gas; refining and marketing of petroleum products, and supplying petrochemicals. The Company?s operations are conducted in three main segments: Upstream, Downstream and Chemical. Upstream operations include the exploration for, and production of, conventional crude oil, natural gas, upgraded crude oil and heavy oil. Downstream operations consist of the transportation, refining and blending of crude oil and refined products, and the distribution and marketing thereof. The Chemical operations consist of the manufacturing and marketing of various petrochemicals. As of December 31, 2008, Exxon Mobil Corporation owned approximately 69.6% of the outstanding shares of the Company.

• MYD, BLACKROCK MUNIYIE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 30.770908

Blackrock MuniYield Fund Inc. (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to provide a high level of current income exempt from federal income taxes as by investing primarily in a portfolio of long-term, investment-grade municipal obligations, the interest on which is exempt from federal income taxes. The Fund may invest in zero-coupon bonds. It may invest in various derivative instruments, including swap agreements and other instruments. It invests in sectors, such as hospitals, transportation, education, housing, power, and water and sewer. The Fund?s investment advisor is BlackRock Advisors, LLC, an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. Its sub-advisor is BlackRock Investment Management, LLC, an affiliate of BlackRock Advisors, LLC.

• HAE, HAEMONETICS CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 56.928413

Haemonetics Corporation is engaged in developing and manufacturing blood typing and screening technology. The Company offers devices and related consumables, information technology platforms, and consulting services. Its direct customers are blood and plasma collectors, hospitals and hospital service providers. The Company manages three global product families: Donor, which markets blood and plasma collection devices, consumables and other business solutions; Patient, which markets into hospitals surgical blood salvage and blood demand diagnostic devices and consumables, as well as blood management services, and Software Solutions and Services, which markets information technology platforms and consulting services to blood and plasma collectors and hospitals. In March 2009, the Company acquired Altivation Software and its primary product, Hemasphere. Hemasphere is a software system focused on mobile blood drive management.

• DCOM, DIME COMMUNITY BC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 161.581848

Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. is the parent company of The Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh (the Bank), a federally chartered stock savings bank. The Bank maintains its headquarters in the Williamsburg section of the borough of Brooklyn, New York and operates 23 full-service retail banking offices located in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, and in Nassau County, New York. The Bank?s principal business is gathering deposits from customers within its market area, and investing them primarily in multifamily residential mortgage loans, commercial real estate loans, one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, construction loans, consumer loans, mortgage-backed securities (MBS), obligations of the United States Government and government-sponsored entities, and corporate debt and equity securities.

• KNDL, KENDLE INTL INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 19.166256

Kendle International Inc. is a global clinical research organization (CRO) that provides a range of Phase I-IV global clinical development services to the biopharmaceutical industry. The Company augments the research and development activities of biopharmaceutical companies by offering clinical research services and information technology designed to reduce drug development time and expense. Kendle International Inc. is managed in two reportable segments: Early Stage and Late Stage. The Early Stage business focuses on the Company?s Phase I operations while Late Stage is comprised of clinical development services related to Phase II through III clinical trials conducted worldwide, late phase clinical development services related to Phase IIIB and IV clinical trials conducted worldwide, regulatory affairs and biometrics offerings. In June 2008, the Company announced the acquisition of DecisionLine Clinical Research Corporation.

• ICLR, ICON PLC ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 865.258606

ICON plc (ICON) is a contract research organization (CRO), providing outsourced development services on a global basis to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. The Company specializes in the development, management, and analysis of programs that support clinical development, from compound selection to Phase I-IV clinical studies. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company operated 71 locations in 38 countries providing Phase I-IV clinical trial management, drug development support services, data management and biostatistics, and central laboratory and imaging services. During 2008, ICON commenced operations in Edinburgh, Scotland; Bogota, Colombia, and New Dehli, India. On November 14, 2008, ICON acquired Prevalere Life Sciences Inc. (Prevalere). On December 31, 2008, the Company acquired remaining 30% interest in Beacon Bioscience Inc. In April 2009, the Company acquired Qualia Clinical Services, a Phase I facility based in Omaha, Nebraska.

• X, UNITED STATES STE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 31.435993

United States Steel Corporation (U. S. Steel) is an integrated steel producer with production operations in North America and Europe. The Company has annual raw steel production capability of 31.7 million net tons (tons) (24.3 million tons in North America and 7.4 million tons in Europe). U. S. Steel is also engaged in other business activities including the production of coke in both North America and Europe and iron ore pellets in North America, and transportation services (railroad and barge operations), real estate operations, and engineering and consulting services in North America. U. S. Steel has three reportable operating segments: Flat-rolled Products (Flat-rolled), U. S. Steel Europe (USSE) and Tubular Products (Tubular). On January 31, 2009, the Company completed the sale of a majority of the operating assets of Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company (EJ&E) to a subsidiary of Canadian National Railway Company.

• PTNR, PARTNER COMM ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 209.521347

Partner Communications Company Ltd. (Partner) is an Israeli mobile telephone network operator providing global system for mobile (GSM). The Company markets its services under the Orange brand. As of December 31, 2008, the Company?s GSM network covered approximately 98% of the Israeli population. The Company operates its GSM network in the 900 megahertz and 1800 megahertz bands. Its GSM services include enhanced GSM services, as well as value-added services and products, such as roaming, voice mail, voice messaging, color picture messaging, ringtone and game downloads, information services and General Packet Radio Services (GPRS), which enables the packet transfer of data.

• PBNY, PROVIDENT NEW YOR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 68.846123

Provident New York Bancorp (Provident Bancorp) is a unitary savings and loan holding company that wholly owns the Provident Bank (the Bank). Provident Bank is a full-service community bank. The Company operates 33 branches that serve the Hudson Valley region, including 32 branches located in Rockland, Orange, Sullivan, Ulster, Westchester and Putnam Counties in New York, and one branch in Bergen County, New Jersey that operates under the name Towncenter Bank, a division of Provident Bank, New York. The Bank also offers deposit services to municipalities located in the State of New York through Provident Bank?s wholly owned subsidiary, Provident Municipal Bank. Provident Bank offers a line of commercial, community business and retail banking products and services.

• SY, SYBASE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 55.381767

Sybase, Inc. (Sybase) is an enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information from the data-center to the point of action. The Company provides open, cross-platform solutions that deliver information anytime, anywhere, providing decision-ready information to the right people at the right time. Sybase delivers a range of solutions to ensure that customer information is securely managed and mobilized to the point of action, including enterprise and mobile databases, middleware, synchronization, encryption and device management software, and mobile messaging services. During the year ended December 31, 2008, Sybase?s business was organized into three business segments: Infrastructure Platform Group (IPG), iAnywhere Solutions (iAS) and Sybase 365 ((Sybase 365). In January 2009, the Company acquired paybox solutions AG.

• WDC, WESTERN DIGITAL C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 111.287331

Western Digital Corporation (WD) designs, develops, manufactures and sells hard drives. It sells its products worldwide to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufactures (ODMs) for use in computer systems, subsystems or consumer electronics (CE) devices, and to distributors, resellers and retailers. The Company?s hard drives are used in desktop computers, notebook computers and enterprise applications, such as servers, workstations, network attached storage, storage area networks and video surveillance equipment. Additionally, its hard drives are used in CE applications, such as digital video recorders, and satellite and cable set-top boxes. It markets its hard drives under brand names, including WD Caviar, WD Raptor, WD VelociRaptor, WD Scorpio, WD Elements, My Passport, My Book, My DVR Expander and GreenPower. In March 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of SiliconSystems, Inc., a supplier of solid state drives for the embedded systems market.

• VCP, VOTORANTIM CELULO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 201.740189

Votorantim Celulose e Papel S.A. (VCP) produces a variety of pulp and paper products in Brazil, including wood-free printing and writing papers and specialty papers. The Company operates in two business segments: pulp and paper. The Company produces bleached eucalyptus kraft pulp (BEKP), which is a high-quality variety of hardwood pulp. During the year ended December 31, 2007, VCP sold approximately 80% of its pulp production to third parties, and used the remainder internally to manufacture a range of printing and writing paper products, including coated and uncoated printing and writing papers, thermal papers, carbonless papers and other specialty papers. VCP produces paper for the domestic and international markets.

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• WRE, WASH REAL EST INV Current Caprock Strength Rating: 0.690000

Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (WREIT) is a self-administered, self-managed, equity real estate investment trust (REIT). The business consists of the ownership and operation of income-producing real properties in the greater Washington metro region. WREIT owns a portfolio of office buildings, medical office buildings, industrial/flex properties, multifamily buildings and retail centers. WREIT operates in five business segments: regional office, medical office, retail, multifamily and industrial/flex properties. In September 2008, WRIT acquired The Kenmore, a 374-unit, 270,000 square foot apartment building located in Washington, DC.

• PVA, PENN VIRGINIA CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 53.993431

Penn Virginia Corporation is an independent oil and gas company primarily engaged in the development, exploration and production of natural gas and oil in various domestic onshore regions including East Texas, the Mid-Continent, Appalachia, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast. The Company also indirectly owns partner interests in Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. (PVR). The Company?s ownership interests in PVR are held principally through its general partner interest and its 77% limited partner interest in Penn Virginia GP Holdings, L.P. (PVG). The Company is engaged in three business segments: oil and gas, coal and natural resource management and natural gas midstream. The Company operates its oil and gas segment. PVR operates the coal and natural resource management and natural gas midstream segments.

• NYB, NEW YORK CMMTY BN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 50.975937

New York Community Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for New York Community Bank (Community Bank) and New York Commercial Bank (Commercial Bank). The Company has 215 banking offices serving customers in all five boroughs of New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County in New York, and Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Union counties in New Jersey. Community Bank has 178 locations that operate through six divisional banks: Queens County Savings Bank, Roslyn Savings Bank, Richmond County Savings Bank, Roosevelt Savings Bank, Garden State Community Bank, and Synergy Bank. Commercial Bank has 37 branches serving Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Westchester County, and Long Island, including 18 branches of Atlantic Bank.

• NAVG, NAVIGATORS GP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 24.101583

The Navigators Group, Inc. is an international insurance holding company focused on specialty products within the overall property/casualty insurance market. The Company’s underwriting operations consist of insurance company operations and operations at Lloyd’s of London. Its product line includes ocean marine insurance, professional liability insurance and specialty liability insurance. It conducts operations through its insurance companies and Lloyd’s Operations. The Insurance Companies consist of Navigators Insurance Company, which includes a United Kingdom Branch (the U.K. Branch), and Navigators Specialty Insurance Company, which underwrites specialty and professional liability insurance on an excess and surplus lines basis fully reinsured by Navigators Insurance Company. The Company?s Lloyd?s Operations include Navigators Underwriting Agency Ltd. (NUAL), a Lloyd?s of London (Lloyd?s) underwriting agency, which manages Lloyd?s Syndicate 1221 (Syndicate 1221).

• BRS, BRISTOW GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: -0.767635

Bristow Group Inc. (Bristow Group) is a provider of helicopter services to the offshore energy industry with global operations. The Company has operations in offshore oil and gas producing regions, including North Sea, the United States Gulf of Mexico, Nigeria, Australia and Latin America. It generated 76% of its revenues from international operations in fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. The Helicopter Services segment operations are conducted through three divisions, Western Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere and Global Training. Western Hemisphere includes United States (US) Gulf of Mexico, Arctic, Latin America and Western Hemisphere (WH) Centralized Operations. Eastern Hemisphere includes Europe, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Other International and Eastern Hemisphere (EH) Centralized Operations. On October 31, 2008, it acquired the remaining 51% interest in its Norwegian affiliate, Norsk Helikopter AS (Norsk). On October 31, 2008, it owns 100% of Bristow Norway.

• GLDN, GOLDEN TELECOM IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 330.825806
• RIG, TRANSOCEAN INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 103.550560

Transocean LTD. (Transocean), formerly Transocean Inc., is an international provider of offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells. As of February 03, 2009, the Company owned, had partial ownership interests in or operated 136 mobile offshore drilling units. Its fleet included 39 high-specification floaters (ultra-deepwater, deepwater and harsh environment semisubmersibles, and drillships), 28 midwater floaters, 10 high-specification jackups, 55 standard jackups and four other rigs. As of February 03, 2009, the Company also has 10 ultra-deepwater floaters contracted for or under construction. The Company?s primary business is to contract these drilling rigs, related equipment and work crews primarily on a day rate basis to drill oil and gas wells.

• EQT, EQUITABLE RES INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 178.694778

EQT Corporation (EQT), formerly Equitable Resources, Inc. is an exploration and production company. As of December 31, 2008, the Company had over three trillion cubic feet of proved reserves. The Company and its subsidiaries offer energy products, including natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and an amount of crude oil and services to wholesale and retail customers in the United States. The Company operates in three business segments: EQT Production, EQT Midstream and Equitable Distribution. The Company?s reserves are located entirely in the Appalachian Basin.

• ELNK, EARTHLINK INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 10.102737

EarthLink, Inc. (EarthLink) is an Internet service provider (ISP), providing nationwide Internet access and related value-added services to individual and business customers. The Company’s primary service offerings are dial-up and Internet access services and related value-added services, such as search, advertising and ancillary services. The Company operates in two segments: Consumer Services and Business Services. The Consumer Services segment provides Internet access and related value-added services to individual customers. The Business Services segment provides integrated communications services, Internet access and related value-added services to businesses and communications carriers. In August 2008, Virgin Mobile USA, Inc. (Virgin Mobile) acquired HELIO and EarthLink’s equity and debt investments in HELIO were exchanged for limited partnership units of Virgin Mobile.

• CRL, CHARLES RIVER LAB Current Caprock Strength Rating: 31.914513

Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (Charles River) is a global provider of solutions that advance the drug discovery and development process, including research models and associated services, and outsourced preclinical services. The Company operates in two segments: Research Models and Services (RMS) and Preclinical Services (PCS). The Company provides the animal research models required in research and development of drugs, devices and therapies. Charles River?s customer base includes global pharmaceutical companies, a range of biotechnology companies, as well as government agencies, hospitals and academic institutions worldwide. The Company operates approximately 70 facilities in 17 countries worldwide. During the fiscal year ended December 27, 2008 (fiscal 2008), the Company acquired NewLab BioQuality AG and MIR Preclinical Services.

• EQT, EQUITABLE RES INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 178.694778

EQT Corporation (EQT), formerly Equitable Resources, Inc. is an exploration and production company. As of December 31, 2008, the Company had over three trillion cubic feet of proved reserves. The Company and its subsidiaries offer energy products, including natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and an amount of crude oil and services to wholesale and retail customers in the United States. The Company operates in three business segments: EQT Production, EQT Midstream and Equitable Distribution. The Company?s reserves are located entirely in the Appalachian Basin.

• GG, GOLDCORP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 104.096573

Goldcorp Inc. (Goldcorp) is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and operation of precious metal properties. The Company?s principal product is gold. In addition to gold, the Company also produces silver and copper. It has gold mineral reserves at the Red Lake Gold Mines, the Porcupine Mine, the Musselwhite Mine, the Marigold Mine, the Wharf Mine, the El Sauzal Mine and the Nukay Mine; gold and silver mineral reserves at the Los Filos Mine, the San Dimas Mines and the Marlin Mine; gold and copper mineral reserves at the Alumbrera Mine; gold, silver and copper mineral reserves at the Pueblo Viejo Project, and gold, silver, lead and zinc mineral reserves at the Penasquito Project. On September 25, 2008, Goldcorp completed its acquisition of Gold Eagle Mines Ltd.

• BHP, BHP BILLITON LIMI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 27.263964

BHP Billiton Limited is a diversified natural resources company. The Company has businesses producing alumina and aluminum, copper, energy (thermal) coal, iron ore, nickel, manganese, metallurgical coal, oil and gas and uranium, as well as gold, zinc, lead, silver and diamonds. The Company operates in nine customer sector groups (CSGs): petroleum, aluminum, base metals, diamonds and specialty products, stainless steel materials, iron ore; manganese, metallurgical coal, and energy coal. In July 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of Anglo Potash Ltd.

• CLF, CLEVELAND CLIFFS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 237.817490

Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (Cliffs), formerly Cleveland-Cliffs Inc, is an international mining and natural resources company. The Company is a producer of iron ore pellets in North America, a supplier of direct-shipping lump and fines iron ore out of Australia, and a producer of metallurgical coal. Cliffs is organized according to product category and geographic location: North American Iron Ore, North American Coal, Asia Pacific Iron Ore, Asia Pacific Coal and Latin American Iron Ore. In North America, it operates six iron ore mines in Michigan, Minnesota and Eastern Canada, and two coking coal mining complexes located in West Virginia and Alabama. Its Asia Pacific operations include full ownership of Portman, which is comprised of two iron ore mining complexes in Western Australia, serving the Asian iron ore markets with direct-shipping fines and lump ore, and a 45 % economic interest in Sonoma, a coking and thermal coal mine located in Queensland, Australia.

• TMO, THERMO FISHER SCI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 145.394485

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Thermo Fisher), incorporated in 1956, is engaged in serving science. It provides analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software and services for research, manufacturing, analysis, discovery and diagnostics. The Company operates through two segments: analytical technologies and laboratory products and services. Analytical technologies segment includes pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic, government and other research and industrial markets. Laboratory products and services segment offers combination of products and services that allows its customers to engage in their core business functions of research, development, manufacturing, clinical diagnosis and drug discovery. In April 2009, Alesco Corporation Ltd. sold its Scientific & Medical division to Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

• NKE, NIKE INC CL B Current Caprock Strength Rating: 32.154182

NIKE, Inc. (NIKE) is engaged in the design, development and worldwide marketing of footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessory products. NIKE sells athletic footwear and athletic apparel. It sells its products to retail accounts, through NIKE-owned retail, including stores and Internet sales, and through a mix of independent distributors and licensees, in over 180 countries around the world. Its products include running, training, basketball, soccer, sport-inspired urban shoes, and children?s shoes. It also markets shoes designed for aquatic activities, baseball, bicycling, cheerleading, football, golf, lacrosse, outdoor activities, skateboarding, tennis, volleyball, walking, wrestling, and other athletic and recreational uses. On March 3, 2008, the Company acquired Umbro Ltd. (Umbro). On April 17, 2008, it completed the sale of its Bauer Hockey subsidiary.

• PCU, SOUTHERN COPPER C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 14.524392

Southern Copper Corporation is an integrated copper producer. The Company produces copper, molybdenum, zinc and silver. All of its mining, smelting and refining facilities are located in Peru and in Mexico, and it conducts exploration activities in those countries and Chile. Its Peruvian copper operations involve mining, milling and flotation of copper ore to produce copper concentrates and molybdenum concentrates; the smelting of copper concentrates to produce anode copper, and the refining of anode copper to produce copper cathodes. It operates the Toquepala and Cuajone mines in the Andes mountains. The Company also operates a smelter and refinery west of the Toquepala and Cuajone mines in the coastal city of Ilo, Peru. Its Mexican operations are conducted through the Company?s subsidiary, Minera Mexico S.A. de C.V. (Minera Mexico). Minera Mexico engages principally in the mining and processing of copper, molybdenum, zinc, silver, gold and lead.

• NIO, NUVEEN INS MUNI O Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.597859

Nuveen Insured Municipal Opportunity Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to provide current income exempt from regular federal income tax, Each Fund seeks to provide current income exempt from regular federal income tax, and in the case of Insured Tax-Free Advantage (NEA) the alternative minimum tax applicable to individuals, by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of municipal obligations issued by state and local government authorities or certain United States territories. It invests in sectors, such as transportation, utilities, healthcare and others. Nuveen Asset Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc., serves as the Fund?s investment adviser.

• PCU, SOUTHERN COPPER C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 14.524392

Southern Copper Corporation is an integrated copper producer. The Company produces copper, molybdenum, zinc and silver. All of its mining, smelting and refining facilities are located in Peru and in Mexico, and it conducts exploration activities in those countries and Chile. Its Peruvian copper operations involve mining, milling and flotation of copper ore to produce copper concentrates and molybdenum concentrates; the smelting of copper concentrates to produce anode copper, and the refining of anode copper to produce copper cathodes. It operates the Toquepala and Cuajone mines in the Andes mountains. The Company also operates a smelter and refinery west of the Toquepala and Cuajone mines in the coastal city of Ilo, Peru. Its Mexican operations are conducted through the Company?s subsidiary, Minera Mexico S.A. de C.V. (Minera Mexico). Minera Mexico engages principally in the mining and processing of copper, molybdenum, zinc, silver, gold and lead.

• CEG, CONSTELLATION ENG Current Caprock Strength Rating: 17.823517

Constellation Energy Group Inc. is an energy company that conducts its business through various subsidiaries, including a merchant energy business and Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE). The Company?s merchant energy business is a provider of energy-related products and services for a variety of customers. BGE is a regulated electric transmission and distribution utility company and a regulated gas distribution utility company with a service territory that covers the City of Baltimore and all or part of 10 counties in central Maryland. Its segments include Merchant Energy, Regulated Electric and Regulated Gas. Its remaining non-regulated businesses include design, construct and operate renewable energy, heating, cooling and cogeneration facilities for commercial, industrial and governmental customers. In March 2009, the Company divested its Houston-based downstream gas unit, as well as the majority of its London-based coal, freight and international commodities business.

• ACV, ALBERTO-CULVER CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 200.841766

Alberto Culver Company (New Alberto Culver) develops, manufactures, distributes and markets beauty care products, as well as food and household products in the United States and more than 100 other countries. The Company operates in two business segments: United States and International. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2008 (fiscal 2008), beauty care products accounted for approximately 94% of the Company?s consolidated net sales. During fiscal 2008, food and household products accounted for approximately 6% of its consolidated net sales. On October 1, 2008, the Company acquired the Noxzema skin care business in the United States, Canada and portions of Latin America, as well as the worldwide rights and trademarks to the Noxzema brand. On July 31, 2008 Cederroth Intressenter AB, a company owned by two funds controlled by CapMan, acquired Cederroth International AB.

• OMG, OM GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 83.674637

OM Group, Inc. is a diversified global developer, producer and marketer of specialty chemicals and advanced materials that are essential to complex chemical and industrial processes. The Company is the refiner of cobalt and producer of cobalt-based specialty products. The Company also produces specialty chemicals and materials from barium, calcium, iron, manganese, potassium, rare earths, zinc, zirconium, germanium and copper. The Company?s businesses serve approximately 50 industries worldwide, producing a variety of specialty chemicals and materials. The Company is organized in to two segments: Specialty Chemicals and Advanced Materials. The Specialty Chemicals segment consists of electronic chemicals, advanced organics, ultra pure chemicals (UPC) and photomasks. The Advanced Materials segment consists of inorganics, Democratic Republic of Congo (the DRC) smelter joint venture and metal resale. The Company?s business serves approximately 4,000 customers as of December 31, 2008.

• DBC, DB COMMODITY IDX Current Caprock Strength Rating: 427.720947

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