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• KGC, KINROSS GOLD CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 371.050720

Kinross Gold Corporation (Kinross) is engaged in gold mining and related activities, including exploration and acquisition of gold-bearing properties, the extraction and processing of ore, and reclamation of mining properties. Kinross? gold production and exploration activities are carried out in the United States, Brazil, Chile and the Russian Federation. The Company had gold production and exploration activities in Canada up until December 21, 2007, when the Porcupine Joint Venture and Musselwhite Joint Venture were sold as part of the Goldcorp asset swap transactions. Kinross?s operating mines, in which it owns 100% interest, include Fort Knox, Round Mountain, Paracatu, La Coipa, Maricunga and Kettle River. In January 2008, the Company announced it sold its 98.1% stake in Omoloskaya zolotorudnaya kompaniya OAO, gold mining company to Polimetall OAO. In October 2008, Kinross Gold Corporation acquied Aurelian Resources Inc.

• TAP, MOLSON COORS CO C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 150.978714

Molson Coors Brewing Company (MCBC) is a global brewer of beers. The Company?s subsidiaries include Molson Canada (Molson), Coors Brewing Company (CBC), Coors Brewers Limited (CBL), and other corporate entities. The segments of the Company include Canada, the United States and Europe. The brands sold in Canada include Coors Light, Molson Canadian, Molson Dry, Molson Export, Creemore Springs, Rickard’s Red Ale, Carling and Pilsner. The brands sold in the United States include Coors Light, Coors, Coors Non-Alcoholic, Blue Moon Belgian White Ale and Blue Moon brands, George Killian’s Irish Red? Lager, Keystone, Keystone Light, Keystone Ice and Zima. The brands sold in the United Kingdom include Carling, C2, Coors Light, Worthington’s ales, Caffrey’s, Reef, Screamers and Stones. On January 13, 2006, the Company sold a 68% equity interest in Cervejarias Kaiser Brasil S.A. (Kaiser) to FEMSA Cerveza S.A. de C.V. (FEMSA).

• PEP, PEPSICO INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 172.410660

PepsiCo, Inc. (PepsiCo) is a global snack and beverage company. The Company manufactures, markets and sells a range of salty, convenient, sweet and grain-based snacks, carbonated and non-carbonated beverages and foods. The Company is organized into four divisions: Frito-Lay North America (FLNA), PepsiCo Beverages North America (PBNA), PepsiCo International (PI) and Quaker Foods North America (QFNA). Its North American divisions operate in the United States and Canada. Its international division sells products in approximately 200 countries, with operations in Mexico and the United Kingdom. In April 2008, PepsiCo acquired V Water, a vitamin water brand in the United Kingdom. In May 2008, PepsiCo and The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc., through their PR Beverages Limited joint venture in Russia, completed acquisition of Sobol-Aqua JSC. In August 2008, PepsiCo and The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. announced that they have completed a joint acquisition of a 75.53% stake in JSC Lebedyansky.

• 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 onshore in the east Texas/north Louisiana and south Texas regions and offshore in state and federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Its offshore operations are conducted through Bois d?Arc Energy, Inc. (Bois d?Arc Energy). Comstock?s oil and natural gas properties have proved reserves of 1,048.7 billion cubic feet equivalent (Bcfe). Its consolidated proved oil and natural gas reserve base is 80% natural gas and 68% proved developed on a Bcfe basis as of December 31, 2007. In June 2007 Comstock acquired additional working interests in oil and gas properties in the Javelina field in South Texas from Abaco Operating LLC. In August 2008, the Company announced that its 49% interest in its subsidiary, Bois d?Arc Energy, was acquired by Stone Energy Corporation.

• 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.

• AGP, AMERIGROUP CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 225.436966

AMERIGROUP Corporation is a multi-state managed healthcare company focused on serving people, who receive healthcare benefits through publicly sponsored programs, including Medicaid, State Children?s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), FamilyCare and Medicare Advantage. The Company designs its programs to address the particular needs of its members, for whom AMERIGROUP Corporation facilitates access to healthcare benefits pursuant to agreements with the applicable regulatory authority. The Company combines medical, social and behavioral health services to help its members obtain healthcare in an efficient manner. As of December 31, 2007, AMERIGROUP Corporation provided an array of products to approximately 1,711,000 members in the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

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

The 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. The Fund’s investment advisor is Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. The Fund invests in various holdings, including electrical equipment, commercial banks, information technology services, construction materials, wireless telecommunication services and short-term investments.

• MIN, M F S INTRMDT INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 386.896362

MFS Intermediate Income Trust (the Trust) is a closed-end management investment company. The Trust?s investment objective is to seek high current income. The Trust maintains a portfolio that includes investments in short and intermediate-term United States Government and foreign high-grade securities. Its assets are primarily invested in investment-grade debt instruments. The Trust may invest its assets in United States and foreign securities, including emerging market securities. It may also invest in mortgage dollar rolls. Its portfolio includes non-United States Government bonds, mortgage-backed securities, the United States Government agency securities, the United States Treasury securities, emerging market bonds, commercial mortgage-backed securities, residential mortgage-backed securities and high-grade corporate securities. The Trust’s investment advisor is Massachusetts Financial Services Company.

• AG, AGCO CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 525.557983

AGCO Corporation (AGCO) manufactures and distributes agricultural equipment and related replacement parts. AGCO sells a range of agricultural equipment, including tractors, combines, self-propelled sprayers, hay tools, forage equipment and implements, and a line of diesel engines. Its products are marketed under a number of brand names, including AGCO, Challenger, Fendt, Gleaner, Hesston, Massey Ferguson, RoGator, Spra-Coupe, Sunflower, Terra-Gator, Valtra and White Planters. AGCO distributes most of its products through a combination of approximately 3,000 independent dealers and distributors in more than 140 countries. In addition, the Company provides retail financing in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and Austria through its finance joint ventures with Cooperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. (Rabobank). On September 10, 2007, the Company acquired Industria Agricola Fortaleza Limitada (SFIL).

• MHS, MEDCOHEALTH SOLUT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 170.225342

Medco Health Solutions Inc. (Medco) is a pharmacy benefit manager. The Company provides traditional and specialty prescription drug benefit programs and services for its clients and members. The Company provides pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services through its national networks of retail pharmacies and its own mail-order pharmacies, as well as through its Specialty Pharmacy segment, Accredo Health Group. During the fiscal year ended December 29, 2007 (fiscal 2007), it introduced the Medco Therapeutic Resource Centers. The Company?s data center links its mail-order pharmacy operations, including its call center pharmacies and work-at-home sites, its Websites, and the retail pharmacies in its networks. In April 2008, the Company acquired a majority interest in Europa Apotheek Venlo, a privately held company providing clinical healthcare and mail-order pharmacy services in Germany.

• GFIG, GFI GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 104.983421

GFI Group Inc. is an inter-dealer broker specializing in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives products and related securities. The Company provides brokerage services and data and analytics products to institutional clients in markets for a range of credit, financial, equity and commodity instruments. It functions as an intermediary on behalf of its brokerage clients by matching their trading needs with counterparties having reciprocal interests. The Company focuses primarily on the more complex, and often less commoditized, markets for sophisticated financial instruments, primarily OTC derivatives. The Company offers its clients a hybrid brokerage approach, combining a range of telephonic and electronic trade execution services, depending on the needs of the individual markets. It complements its hybrid brokerage capabilities with decision support products, such as value-added data and analytics products. On January 31, 2008, the Company acquired Trayport Limited.

• OXY, OCCIDENTAL PET Current Caprock Strength Rating: 164.502548

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Occidental) conducts its operations through various oil and gas, chemical and other subsidiaries and affiliates. The Company operates in two segments: oil and gas, and chemical. The oil and gas segment explores for, develops, produces and markets crude oil and natural gas. The chemical segment (OxyChem) manufactures and markets basic chemicals, vinyls and performance chemicals. The Company?s domestic oil and gas operations are located at the Permian Basin in west Texas and New Mexico, Elk Hills and other locations in California, the Hugoton field in Kansas and Oklahoma, Utah and western Colorado. International operations are located in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Libya, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen. OxyChem manufactures and markets basic chemicals, vinyls, chlorinated organics and performance chemicals. In June 2007, BP p.l.c. acquired Occidental?s oil and gas interests in Horn Mountain.

• KWK, QUICKSILVER RES I Current Caprock Strength Rating: 213.799698

Quicksilver Resources Inc. (Quicksilver) is an independent oil and gas company. The Company is primarily engaged in the development, exploitation, exploration, acquisition and production and sale of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and crude oil. It is also involved in the marketing, processing and transmission of natural gas. Quicksilver owns natural gas and oil properties in the United States, principally in Texas, Wyoming and Montana, and in Canada, principally in Alberta. As of December 31, 2007, the Company had total proved reserves of approximately 1.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas equivalents (Tcfe). It owns approximately 73% of Quicksilver Gas Services LP, a midstream master limited partnership. The Company also owns approximately 32% of the limited partner units of BreitBurn Energy Partners L.P. The Company previously held properties in Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky (Northeast Operations), which were divested to BreitBurn on November 1, 2007.

• MCD, MCDONALDS CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 125.146095

McDonald?s Corporation primarily franchises and operates McDonald?s restaurants in the food service industry. These restaurants serve a varied, yet limited, value-priced menu in more than 100 countries around the world. The Company also has a minority ownership interest in United Kingdom-based Pret A Manger. The Company owned Boston Market prior to its sale in August 2007. During the year ended December 31, 2006, the Company disposed of its investment in Chipotle Mexican Grill (Chipotle). All restaurants are operated either by the Company, by independent entrepreneurs under the terms of conventional franchise arrangements (franchisees), or by affiliates and developmental licensees operating under license agreements. During the year ended December 31, 2007, McDonald?s Corporation sold its businesses in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and 13 other countries in Latin America, and the Caribbean to a developmental licensee organization.

• MLNM, MILLENNIUM PHARM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 133.557907

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• 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. The Fund may purchase and write (sell) put and call options. The Fund invests in residual interest municipal bonds (RIBs) and residual interest tax-exempt bonds (RITEs) (inverse floaters), whose interest rates bear an inverse relationship to the interest rate on another security or the value of an index. 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-advisor is Pacific Investment Management Company LLC.

• CEO, CNOOC LTD ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 217.421051

CNOOC Limited is a producer of offshore crude oil and natural gas and an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. It mainly engages in oil and natural gas exploration, development, production and sales. The Company has four major oil production areas offshore China: Bohai Bay, western South China Sea, eastern South China Sea and East China Sea. It is an offshore oil producer in Indonesia. The Company also has certain upstream assets in regions, such as Africa and Australia. As of December 31, 2007, the Company owned net proved reserves of approximately 2.6 billion barrels-of-oil (BOE) equivalent and its average daily net production was 469,407 barrels-of-oil equivalent.

• CRZO, CARRIZO OIL & GAS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 271.763000

Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. (Carrizo) is an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas and oil. The Company?s operations are focused in producing natural gas and oil geologic trends in the Barnett Shale area in North Texas and along the onshore Gulf Coast area in Texas and Louisiana, in the Miocene, Wilcox, Frio and Vicksburg trends. The Company?s other interests include properties in the United Kingdom North Sea and acreage in shale plays in the Fayetteville in Arkansas, Barnett/Woodford in West Texas/New Mexico, Floyd/Neal in Mississippi, the western New Albany in Kentucky/Illinois and the Marcellus in Pennsylvania/New York. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the total proved reserves 347.6 billion cubic feet (Bcfe). In 2007, the Company operated 153 producing oil and gas wells, which accounted for 75% of the onshore Gulf Coast area production and approximately 85% of the Barnett Shale production.

• CBU, COMMUNITY BK SYS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 98.150024

Community Bank System, Inc. is a single bank holding company, which wholly owns five subsidiaries: Community Bank, N.A. (the Bank), Benefit Plans Administrative Services, Inc. (BPAS), CFSI Closeout Corp. (CFSICC), First of Jermyn Realty Co. (FJRC) and Town & Country Agency LLC (T&C). BPAS owns three subsidiaries, Benefit Plans Administrative Services LLC (BPA), Harbridge Consulting Group LLC and Hand Benefit & Trust Company. BPAS provides administration, consulting and actuarial services to sponsors of employee benefit plans. CFSICC, FJRC and T&C are inactive companies. The Company also wholly owns three unconsolidated subsidiary business trusts established for the purpose of issuing mandatorily redeemable preferred securities, which are considered Tier I capital under regulatory capital adequacy guidelines. On May 18, 2007, BPAS acquired Hand Benefits & Trust, Inc. On June 1, 2007, the Company acquired TLNB Financial Corporation, parent company of Tupper Lake National Bank.

• GHL, GREENHILL & CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 51.067162

Greenhill & Co., Inc. (Greenhill) is an independent investment banking firm that provides financial advice on significant mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and similar corporate finance matters, and manages merchant banking funds and commits capital to those funds. Greenhill acts for clients located throughout the world from offices in New York, London, Frankfurt, Toronto and Dallas. Its principal sources of revenue are financial advisory and merchant banking fund management.

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

Imperial Oil Limited (Imperial) is a Canada-based integrated oil company. The Company?s principal business is energy, involving the exploration, production, transportation and sale of crude oil and natural gas, and the manufacture, transportation and sale of petroleum products. Imperial is also a manufacturer and marketer of petrochemicals. The Company?s operations are conducted through three main segments: natural resources (upstream), petroleum products (downstream) and chemicals. Natural resources operations include the exploration for, and production of, conventional crude oil, natural gas, upgraded crude oil and heavy oil. Petroleum products operations consist of the transportation, refining and blending of crude oil and refined products and the distribution and marketing thereof. The chemicals operations consist of the manufacturing and marketing of various petrochemicals. As of December 31, 2007, Exxon Mobil Corporation owned a 69.6% interest in the Company.

• IGT, INTL GAME TECH Current Caprock Strength Rating: 129.132645

International Game Technology (IGT) is a global gaming company specializing in the design, manufacture, and marketing of electronic gaming equipment and network systems, as well as licensing and services. The Company maintains an array of entertainment-inspired gaming product lines. In addition to its United States production facilities in Nevada, it manufactures gaming products in the United Kingdom and through a third-party manufacturer in Japan. The Company derives its revenues from the distribution of electronic gaming equipment and network systems, as well as licensing and services. Gaming operations generate recurring revenues by providing customers with its proprietary gaming equipment and network systems, as well as licensing, services, and component parts. Its product sales include the sale of gaming equipment and network systems, as well as licensing, services, and component parts.

• BTI, BRITISH AMER TOB Current Caprock Strength Rating: 195.369827

British American Tobacco PLC is a holding company that owns, directly or indirectly, investments in the numerous companies constituting the British American Tobacco Group of companies. The Company is an international tobacco company engaged in the sale of cigarettes, cigars, leaf and other tobacco products. It produces and markets a diverse range of brands to suit consumers? preferences, with a particular focus on its four Global Drive Brands (GDBs), which are Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike and Pall Mall. Its cigar portfolio includes the handmade Dunhill Signed Range. The Company has over 300 brands in its portfolio and its brands are sold in over 180 markets. In June 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of the cigarette business assets of Tekel, a Turkish state-owned tobacco company. In July 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of the cigarette businesses of Skandinavisk Tobakskompagni A/S (ST) and certain snus and roll-your-own tobacco interests.

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