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• 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. 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 and AT Plastics businesses. Acetyl Intermediates segment produces and supplies acetyl products. In July 2009, the Company completed the sale of its polyvinyl alcohol business to Sekisui Chemical Co. Ltd.

• BDX, BECTON DICKINSON Current Caprock Strength Rating: 380.990540

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) is a medical technology company engaged in the manufacture and sale of a range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products used by healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, industry and the general public. The segments in which the Company operates include BD Medical, BD Diagnostics and BD Biosciences. On May 12, 2008, the Company acquired Cytopeia Inc.

• GILD, GILEAD SCIENCES Current Caprock Strength Rating: 149.438553

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Gilead) is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and commercializes therapeutics in areas of unmet medical need. The Company has United States and international commercial sales operations, with marketing subsidiaries in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and United States. Its commercial team promotes Truvada, Viread, Emtriva, Hepsera, AmBisome, Letairis, and Flolan through direct field contact with physicians, hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare providers. Gilead?s corporate partner, Astellas Pharma, Inc. (Astellas), promotes and sells AmBisome in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. In May 2008, the Company acquired Navitas Assets, LLC?s. In April 2009, the Company announced the completion of its acquisition of CV Therapeutics, Inc.

• VIVO, MERIDIAN BIOSCIEN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 237.487747

Meridian Bioscience, Inc. is a fully-integrated life science company. The Company?s principal businesses are the development, manufacture, sale and distribution of diagnostic test kits, primarily for certain respiratory, gastrointestinal, viral and parasitic infectious diseases; the manufacture and distribution of bulk antigens, antibodies, and reagents used by researchers and other diagnostic manufacturers, and the contract development and manufacture of proteins and other biologicals for use by biopharmaceutical and biotechnology companies engaged in research for new drugs and vaccines. It has three business segments: US Diagnostics, European Diagnostics and Life Science. The Company?s primary source of domestic and international revenues is core diagnostic products, which represented 83% of consolidated net sales during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2008 (fiscal 2008).

• TSU, TIM PARTICIPACOES Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.498489

TIM Participacoes S.A. is a wireless operator in Brazil. The Company primarily uses the global system for mobile communications technology (GSM), to provide mobile telecommunications services throughout Brazil. The Company offers value-added services, including short message services or text messaging, multimedia messaging services, push-mail, Blackberry service, video call, turbo mail, wireless application protocol (WAP) downloads, Web browsing, business data solutions, songs, games, television access, voice mail, conference calling, chats and other content and services. The Company provides interconnection services to fixed line and mobile service providers as well.

• BDX, BECTON DICKINSON Current Caprock Strength Rating: 380.990540

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) is a medical technology company engaged in the manufacture and sale of a range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products used by healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, industry and the general public. The segments in which the Company operates include BD Medical, BD Diagnostics and BD Biosciences. On May 12, 2008, the Company acquired Cytopeia Inc.

• KOF, COCA COLA FEMSA S Current Caprock Strength Rating: 130.109680

Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A.B. de C.V. (Coca-Cola FEMSA) is a bottler of Coca-Cola trademark beverages in Latin America. The Company operates in territories, including Mexico, a substantial portion of central Mexico (including Mexico City) and southeast Mexico (including the Gulf region); Central America, Guatemala (Guatemala City and surrounding areas), Nicaragua (nationwide), Costa Rica (nationwide) and Panama (nationwide); Colombia; Venezuela; Brazil, including the area of greater Sao Paulo, Campinas, Santos, the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and part of the state of Goias, and Argentina, including Buenos Aires and surrounding areas. In July 2008, it acquired the Agua De Los Angeles jug water business. In February 2009, it acquired with The Coca-Cola Company the Brisa bottled water business in Colombia from Brisa de Bavaria, a subsidiary of SABMiller.

• 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.

• IFN, INDIA FUND (THE) Current Caprock Strength Rating: 51.225807

The India Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s investment objective is long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in Indian equity securities. The India Fund, Inc. invests in various industries, including apparel manufacturing, alcoholic beverages, building and construction, cement, chemicals, computer software and programming, consumer non-durables, consumer products, consumer staples, diversified financial services, electric – transmission, electronics and electrical equipment, energy – alternate sources, engineering, finance, financial services, food, hotels and leisure, independent power producers, metal – diversified, motorcycle/motor scooter, and oil and gas. Blackstone Asia Advisors L.L.C. serves as the Fund?s investment manager. Blackstone Advisors also serves as the Fund?s administrator.

• TRP, TRANSCANADA CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 55.040035

TransCanada Corporation (TransCanada) is an energy infrastructure company focused on pipelines and energy. During the year ended December 31, 2008, its pipelines business accounted for approximately 54% of revenues and energy accounted for approximately 46% of revenues. In August 2008, TransCanada announced that through its subsidiaries, it had acquired KeySpan-Ravenswood, LLC and KeySpan Ravenswood Services Corp., the companies which together own, control and operate the 2,480-megawatt Ravenswood Generating Station located in Queens, New York. In September 2008, TransCanada acquired Bison Pipeline LLC from Northern Border Pipeline Company. In July 2009, TC PipeLines, LP acquired North Baja Pipeline, LLC from TransCanada.

• WHQ, W-H ENERGY SVCS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 8.501338
• 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.

• WMT, WAL MART STORES Current Caprock Strength Rating: 39.768475

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Wal-Mart) operates retail stores in various formats worldwide. The Company provides an assortment of merchandise and services. Wal-Mart operates in three business segments: Walmart U.S., International and Sam?s Club. The Company?s Walmart U.S. segment accounted for 63.7% of its net sales, during the fiscal year ended January 31, 2009, (fiscal 2009), and operates stores in three different formats in the United States, as well as Wal-Mart?s online retail operations, walmart.com. As of January 31, 2009, its International segment consisted of retail operations in 14 countries and Puerto Rico. This segment generated 24.6% of the Company?s net sales in fiscal 2009. Its Sam?s Club segment consists of membership warehouse clubs in the United States and the segment?s online retail operations, samsclub.com. Sam?s Club accounted for 11.7% of net sales in fiscal 2009. In January 2009, the Company acquired 57% of D&S S.A.

• 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).

• 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.

• UFCS, UNITED FIRE CASUA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 30.556551

United Fire & Casualty Company is engaged in the business of writing property and casualty insurance, and life insurance. The Company operates in two business segments: property and casualty insurance, and life insurance. The Company is licensed as a property and casualty insurer in 43 states, primarily in the Midwest, West and South, plus the District of Columbia. It has 837 independent agencies representing its property and casualty insurance subsidiaries. Its life insurance subsidiary is licensed in 28 states, primarily in the Midwest and West, and is represented by 952 independent agencies.

• 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.

• SWN, SOUTHWESTERN ENER Current Caprock Strength Rating: 183.984299

Southwestern Energy Company (Southwestern) is an independent energy company primarily focused on the exploration and production of natural gas within the United States. Its operations primarily are located in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas. The Company also focuses on creating and capturing additional value through its natural gas gathering and marketing businesses, which it refers to as its Midstream Services. Effective July 1, 2008, the Company sold its utility subsidiary, Arkansas Western Gas Company (AWG) and, as a result, the Company does not have any natural gas distribution operations. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company sold the oil and gas leases, wells and equipment that consist of its Permian Basin and onshore Texas Gulf Coast operating assets. In 2008, it also sold certain oil and gas leases, wells and gathering equipment in its Fayetteville Shale play to XTO Energy, Inc.

• CRM, SALESFORCE.COM IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 67.232422

Salesforce.com, inc. is a provider of software on demand. The Company provides customer relationship management (CRM) service to businesses of all sizes and industries worldwide. The Company also provides a technology platform for customers and developers to build and run business applications. Approximately 55,400 customers worldwide use salesforce.com to manage their customer, sales and operational data. The Company designed and developed its offering to be an easy-to-use and intuitive solution that can be deployed rapidly, can be customized easily and can be integrated with other software applications. The Company deliver its service through a standard Web browser. Customers who use its enterprise cloud computing CRM service and platform are able to avoid many of the expenses and complexities of traditional enterprise software development and implementations.

• SLW, SILVER WHEATON CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 30.190140

Silver Wheaton Corp. (Silver Wheaton) is engaged in the silver mining business. The Company has entered into nine long-term silver purchase agreements with Goldcorp (Luismin mines and Penasquito mine in Mexico), Lundin Mining (Zinkgruvan mine in Sweden), Glencore (Yauliyacu mine in Peru), Hellas Gold (Stratoni mine in Greece), Mercator (Mineral Park mine in Arizona, the United States), Farallon (Campo Morado mine in Mexico), Aurcana (La Negra mine in Mexico), and Alexco (Keno Hill property in Canada) whereby Silver Wheaton acquires silver production from the counterparties. The Company?s silver mining projects include Luismin, Zinkgruvan, Yauliyacu, Stratoni and Penasquito. The operations at the Luismin mines, the Penasquito mine, the La Negra mine and the Campo Morado mine are conducted in Mexico. In May 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of Silverstone Resources Corp. (Silverstone). As a result, Silverstone has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Silver Wheaton.

• DNEX, DIONEX CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 22.569416

Dionex Corporation (Dionex) designs, manufactures, markets and services analytical instrumentation and related accessories and chemicals. The Company?s products are used to analyze chemical substances in the environment and in a range of industrial and scientific applications. Dionex design, manufacture, market and service a range of liquid chromatography systems, sample preparation devices and related products that are used by chemists to separate and quantify the individual components of complex chemical mixtures relevant to many major industrial, research and laboratory markets. Its liquid chromatography systems are focused in two product areas: ion chromatography (IC) and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The Company offers a mass spectrometer coupled with either an IC or HPLC system. For sample preparation, it provides accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) systems.

• 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.

• FRO, FRONTLINE LTD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 48.227261

Frontline Ltd. (Frontline) is engaged primarily in the ownership and operation of oil tankers, including oil/bulk/ore (OBO) carriers. The Company operates tankers of two sizes: very large crude carriers (VLCCs), which are between 200,000 and 320,000 deadweight tons (dwt), and Suezmaxes, which are vessels between 120,000 and 170,000 dwt. As of February 28, 2009, the Company operated a tanker fleet consisting of 83 vessels. The fleet consists of 41 VLCCs, which are either owned or chartered in, 30 Suezmax tankers, which are either owned or chartered in, eight Suezmax OBOs, which are chartered in, and four VLCCs under its commercial management. In January 2008, the Company established Independent Tankers Corporation Limited (ITCL), as a wholly owned subsidiary for the purpose of holding, by way of contribution, its interests in Independent Tankers Corporation (ITC). In February 2008, Frontline spun off 17.53% of its holding in ITCL to its shareholders.

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