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Caprock Analytics highlights selected stocks from the over 4,000 stocks tracked and analyzed by Caprock Analytics. These stock selections include a recent Caprock Analytics Strength metric and a brief description of the company. Note that stocks with negative strength ratings indicate a degree of weakness that has been detected. These stocks are a selection of stocks, and are NOT the top rated stocks. To view the top rated stocks, please register for FREE at Caprock Analytics, login, and view the updated Stock rating lists on the website.
The Caprock Analytics Strength Metric is a proprietary metric that estimates the current strength of a security based on an advanced, proprietary algorithm using a variety of technical and fundamental factors. A security with a high strength metric indicates strong momentum and a likelihood for further strength in the near future. For a full list of all Caprock Strength Ratings, and a list of the top rated stocks, please register for FREE at Caprock Analytics, login, and view the updated lists on the website. As always, thoroughly investigate these potential investments to ensure they are a fit for your investing goals and objectives.

• 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, Uchucchacua, Antapite and Ishihuinca mines and has controlling interests in two other mining companies, which operate the Colquijirca 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 South America?s gold mine, and Cerro Verde, a Peruvian company that operates a copper mine located in the south of Peru. As of December 31, 2007, the Company held, either directly or in conjunction with exploration partners, 593,269 hectares of mining rights as part of its exploration program.

• OTTR, OTTER TAIL CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 46.140118

Otter Tail Corporation is engaged in businesses that have been classified into six segments: Electric, which includes the production, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy; Plastics, which consists of businesses producing polyvinyl chloride and polyethylene pipe; Manufacturing, which consists of the production of waterfront equipment, wind towers, material and handling trays and horticultural containers as well as contract machining and metal parts stamping and fabrication; Health Services, which consists of the DMS Health Group involved in the sale of diagnostic medical equipment and related supplies and accessories; Food ingredient processing, which consists of Idaho Pacific Holdings, Inc. that manufactures and supplies dehydrated potato products to food manufacturers; and Other Business Operations, which consists of businesses in residential, commercial and industrial electric contracting industries, construction, transportation and energy services.

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

ICON plc 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, 2007, the Company operated 67 locations in 36 countries, providing Phase I-IV clinical trial management, drug development support services, data management and biostatistics and central laboratory and imaging services. During 2007, it commenced operations in Prague, Czech Republic; Kiev, Ukraine; Bucharest, Romania; Auckland, New Zealand; Osaka, Japan; Lima, Peru, and San Antonio, United States of America. On July 12, 2007, the Company acquired 100% of the common stock of DOCS International BV, a European-based clinical research staffing organization.

• SIGI, SELECTIVE INS GP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 53.364811

Selective Insurance Group, Inc. (Selective), through its subsidiaries, offers property and casualty insurance products, and diversified insurance services and products. The Company operates through three business segments: Insurance Operations, Investments and Diversified Insurance Services. The Insurance Operations segment sells property and casualty insurance products and services primarily in 21 states in the Eastern and Midwestern United States. Diversified Insurance Services provides human resource administration outsourcing products and services, and federal flood insurance administrative services. The Company?s Insurance Operations segment includes commercial lines, which markets primarily to businesses, and represents approximately 87% of Selective?s net premiums written (NPW), and personal lines, which markets primarily to individuals and represents approximately 13% of NPW.

• FII, FEDERATED INV INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 40.086418

Federated Investors, Inc. (Federated), together with its consolidated subsidiaries, is a provider of investment management products and related financial services. The Company sponsors, markets and provides investment-related services to various investment products, including mutual funds and Separate Accounts (which include separately managed accounts, institutional accounts, sub-advised funds (both variable annuity and other) and other managed products). During the year ended December 31, 2007, Federated provided investment advisory services to $39.5 billion in Separate Account assets. On August 24, 2007, Federated completed a transaction with Rochdale Investment Management LLC (Rochdale) to acquire certain assets relating to its business of providing investment advisory and investment management services to the Rochdale Atlas Portfolio (Rochdale Acquisition).

• 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, 2007, the Company owned 202 properties located in 32 states. Senior apartments are marketed to residents, who are capable of caring for themselves. Residence is usually restricted on the basis of age. Independent living properties, or congregate care communities, also provide privacy to residents and require residents to be independent. Assisted living properties have one bedroom units, which include private bathrooms and efficiency kitchens. Services bundled within one charge usually include three meals per day in a central dining room, daily housekeeping, laundry, medical reminders and 24-hour availability of assistance with the activities of daily living, such as dressing and bathing. Professional nursing and healthcare services are available at the property on call or at regularly scheduled times.

• DUK, DUKE ENERGY CP HL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 38.342281

Duke Energy Corporation (Duke Energy) is an energy company located in the Americas that provides its services through four business units. The Company?s business units are U.S. Franchised Electric and Gas, Commercial Power, International Energy and Duke Energy?s 50% interest in the Crescent Resources joint venture (Crescent JV or Crescent). In May 2007, Duke Energy acquired the wind power development assets of Energy Investor Funds from Tierra Energy. The purchase includes more than 1,000 megawatts of wind assets in various stages of development in the Western and Southwestern United States. On January 2, 2007, Duke Energy completed the spin-off of its natural gas businesses, named Spectra Energy Corp., including its wholly owned subsidiary Spectra Energy Capital, LLC. The natural gas businesses spun off primarily consisted of Duke Energy?s Natural Gas Transmission business segment and Duke Energy?s 50% ownership interest in DCP Midstream, LLC.

• PBCT, PEOPLE’S UNITED F Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.961179

People’s United Financial, Inc. (People?s United Financial), formerly People’s Bank, is a savings and loan holding company. People?s United Bank is a federally chartered stock savings bank. The principal business of People?s United Financial is to provide, through People?s United Bank and its subsidiaries, a range of financial services to individual, corporate and municipal customers. Traditional banking activities are conducted primarily within the state of Connecticut and include extending secured and unsecured commercial, and consumer loans, originating mortgage loans secured by residential and commercial properties, and accepting consumer, commercial and municipal deposits. In addition to traditional banking activities, People?s United Bank provides specialized services tailored to specific markets, including personal, institutional and employee benefit trust; cash management, and municipal banking and finance.

• KOP, KOPPERS HOLDINGS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 195.969543

Koppers Holdings Inc. is an integrated global provider of carbon compounds and commercial wood treatment products. Its products are used in a variety of applications in a range of end markets, including the aluminum, railroad, specialty chemical, utility, rubber and steel industries. It operates two principal businesses. Through its Carbon Materials and Chemicals business, the Company manufactures carbon pitch; phthalic anhydride; creosote and carbon black feedstock; carbon black; naphthalene, and furnace coke. Through its Railroad and Utility Products business, the Company supplies railroad crossties in North America. Its other commercial wood treatment products include utility poles for the electric and telephone utility industries. On April 28, 2006, it acquired certain assets of Reilly Industries, Inc.?s carbon materials business. In November 2007, Tangshan Koppers Kailuan Carbon Chemical Company Limited (TKK) was established. The Company holds a 30% investment in TKK.

• CL, COLGATE PALMOLIVE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 320.927460

Colgate-Palmolive Company (Colgate) is a consumer products company, whose products are marketed in over 200 countries and territories throughout the world. Colgate?s Oral Care products include toothpaste, toothbrushes, oral rinses, dental floss and pharmaceutical products for dentists and other oral health professionals. Product launches include Colgate Max Fresh, Colgate Max White, Colgate Sensitive Multi Protection, Colgate Total Advanced Clean, Colgate Total Professional Clean, Colgate Max Fresh BURST and Colgate Herbal Seabuckthorn toothpastes; Colgate 360?, Colgate 360? Sensitive and Colgate Twister Fresh manual toothbrushes, and Colgate 360? Sonic Power battery toothbrush and Colgate Plax Whitening mouth rinse. The Company operates in two product segments: Oral, Personal and Home Care, and Pet Nutrition.

• RRC, RANGE RES CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 499.272614

Range Resources Corporation (Range) is engaged in the exploration, development and acquisition of oil and gas properties, primarily in the Southwestern, Appalachian and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company?s proved reserves comprised 2.2 trillion cubic feet equivalents (Tcfe) of proved reserves; 82% natural gas; 64% proved developed; 77% operated, and a reserve life of 17.7 years. During 2007, Range owned 3,385,000 gross (2,695,000 net) acres of leasehold, including 407,800 acres it also owns a royalty interest. The Company has built a multi-year inventory drilling that is estimated to contain over 11,000 drilling locations, with approximately 8,500 drilling locations in its Appalachian region. In 2007, the Company?s annual production averaged 319 millions of cubic feet equivalent (Mmcfe) per day. In 2007, Range drilled 967 gross wells. In January 2008, Range purchased producing and non-producing Barnett Shale properties.

• TIP, ISHARES LEHMAN TI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 211.759079
• TEF, TELEFONICA SA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 119.150848

Telefonica S.A. (Telefonica) is a diversified telecommunications company, which provides a range of services through telecommunications networks. The Company is focused on providing fixed and mobile telephony services. Telefonica is present principally in Spain, Europe and Latin America. In April 2007, Telefonica O2 Europe, Plc, the Company?s wholly owned subsidiary completed the disposal of Airwave O2, Ltd. (Airwave). In October 2007, the Company?s Brazilian subsidiary, Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo, SA. (Telesp), completed the acquisition of the Brazilian company NavyTree Participacoes, S.A. In March 2008, Telco acquired 0.91% of Telecom Italia?s ordinary share capital.

• AIZ, ASSURANT INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 147.249084

Assurant, Inc. (Assurant) is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the Company provides specialized insurance products and related services in North America and selected international markets. Assurant provides creditor-placed homeowners insurance, manufactured housing homeowners insurance, debt protection administration, credit insurance, warranties and extended service contracts, individual health and small employer group health insurance, group dental insurance, group disability insurance, group life insurance and pre-funded funeral insurance. Assurant operates through five segments: Assurant Solutions, Assurant Specialty Property, Assurant Health, Assurant Employee Benefits, and Corporate and Other. The Corporate and Other segment includes activities of the holding company. On October 1, 2007, it acquired Centrepoint Insurance Services Limited. On July 12, 2007, the Company acquired Swansure Group. On July 1, 2007, Assurant acquired Mayflower National Life Insurance Company.

• ACL, ALCON INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 16.471506

Alcon, Inc. (Alcon) is a research and development driven, global medical specialty company focused on eye care. The Company develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceuticals, surgical equipment and devices and consumer eye care products to treat diseases and disorders of the eye. Alcon manages its business through two segments: Alcon United States and Alcon International. Its portfolio spans three key ophthalmic categories: pharmaceutical, surgical and consumer eye care products. In its pharmaceutical category Alcon develops, manufactures and markets a range of prescription ophthalmic pharmaceutical products. Alcon offers a range of surgical equipment, single-use and disposable products. The Company markets contact lens care products, artificial tears and ocular vitamins, in its consumer eye care products category. In July 2008, Novartis AG acquired a 25% stake in Alcon from Nestle SA.

• VVC, VECTREN CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 25.719864

Vectren Corporation (Vectren) is an energy holding company. The Company?s wholly owned subsidiary, Vectren Utility Holdings, Inc. (Utility Holdings), serves as the intermediate holding company for three operating public utilities: Indiana Gas Company, Inc. (Indiana Gas or Vectren North), Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company (SIGECO or Vectren South), and the Ohio operations (VEDO or Vectren Ohio). Utility Holdings also has other assets that provide information technology and other services to the three utilities. Indiana Gas provides energy delivery services to over 568,000 natural gas customers located in central and southern Indiana. SIGECO provides energy delivery services to over 141,000 electric customers and approximately 112,000 gas customers located near Evansville in southwestern Indiana. SIGECO also owns and operates electric generation to serve its electric customers and optimizes those assets in the wholesale power market.

• RSG, REPUBLIC SVCS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 7.393464

Republic Services, Inc. is a provider of services in the domestic non-hazardous solid waste industry. Its operations primarily consist of the collection, transfer and disposal of non-hazardous solid waste. The Company provides non-hazardous solid waste collection services for commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers through 136 collection companies in 21 states. It also owns or operates 94 transfer stations, 58 solid waste landfills and 33 recycling facilities. As of December 31, 2007, its operations were organized into five regions: Eastern, Central, Southern, Southwestern and Western. Each region is organized into several operating areas and each area contains multiple operating locations. Each of the Company?s regions and substantially all its areas provide collection, transfer, recycling and disposal services.

• SAN, BANCO SANTANDER Current Caprock Strength Rating: 24.476246

Banco Santander-Chile (Santander-Chile/the Bank) is a Chilean bank that provides a range of commercial and retail banking services to its customers. Its product mix includes Chilean peso and foreign currency denominated loans to finance a variety of commercial transactions, trade financing, foreign currency forward contracts, credit lines and a variety of retail banking services, including mortgage financing. In addition to its traditional banking operations, the Bank also offers financial leasing, financial advisory services, mutual fund management, securities brokerage, insurance brokerage and investment management. The Bank have 467 total branches, 256 of which operated under the Santander brand name, 109 under the Santander Banefe brand name, 42 that operate under the brand name SuperCaja, 18 that operate under the BancaPrime brand name and 42 auxiliary and payment centers. It divides clients into the segments: Retail, Institutional, Middle-market, and Global Banking and Market.

• HAE, HAEMONETICS CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 56.928413

Haemonetics Corporation is engaged in developing and manufacturing blood processing technology that help ensures a safe and adequate blood supply. The Company has been engaged in manufacturing automated systems and single use consumables used in blood donation, blood processing, and surgical salvage of blood. Its direct customers are blood and plasma collectors, hospitals and hospital service providers. Haemonetics Corporation markets devices and related consumables, information technology platforms, and consulting services. 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/Services, which markets information technology platforms and consulting services to blood and plasma collectors and hospitals.

• 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. Meridian?s primary source of domestic and international revenues is core diagnostic products, which represented 80% of consolidated net sales during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007 (fiscal 2007). It has three business segments: US Diagnostics, European Diagnostics, and Life Science.

Caprock Analytics highlights selected stocks from the over 4,000 stocks tracked and analyzed by Caprock Analytics. These stock selections include a recent Caprock Analytics Strength metric and a brief description of the company. Note that stocks with negative strength ratings indicate a degree of weakness that has been detected. These stocks are a selection of stocks, and are NOT the top rated stocks. To view the top rated stocks, please register for FREE at Caprock Analytics, login, and view the updated Stock rating lists on the website.
The Caprock Analytics Strength Metric is a proprietary metric that estimates the current strength of a security based on an advanced, proprietary algorithm using a variety of technical and fundamental factors. A security with a high strength metric indicates strong momentum and a likelihood for further strength in the near future. For a full list of all Caprock Strength Ratings, and a list of the top rated stocks, please register for FREE at Caprock Analytics, login, and view the updated lists on the website. As always, thoroughly investigate these potential investments to ensure they are a fit for your investing goals and objectives.

• ITG, INVESTMENT TEC NE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 35.947548

Investment Technology Group, Inc. (ITG) is a specialized agency brokerage and technology firm that partners with clients globally to provide solutions spanning the entire investment process. The Company has three operating segments: United States Operations, Canadian Operations and International Operations. The United States Operations segment provides trading, trade order management, connectivity and research services to institutional investors, plan sponsors, brokers, alternative investment funds and money managers in United States. The Canadian Operations segment provides trading, as well as connectivity and research services. The International Operations segment includes its trading, connectivity and research service businesses in Europe, Australia, Hong Kong and Japan, as well as a research and development facility in Israel.

• DO, DIAMOND OFFSHORE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 34.530838

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (Diamond Offshore) provides contract drilling services to the energy industry worldwide and is also engaged in deepwater drilling with a fleet of 44 offshore drilling rigs. The Company?s fleet consists of 30 semisubmersibles, 13 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.

• 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.

• PGJ, POWERSHARES ETF Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.395359
• DBC, DB COMMODITY IDX Current Caprock Strength Rating: 427.720947
• GIM, TEMPLETON GLOBAL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 100.861855

Templeton Global Income Fund (the Fund) is a is a non-diversified, closed-end investment company. The Fund seeks high current income, with a secondary objective of capital appreciation. Templeton Global Income Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in income producing securities, including debt securities of United States and foreign issuers, including emerging markets. Its portfolio includes government bonds and short-term investments. Its portfolio includes government bonds and short-term investments. The Fund’s investments include companies located in Asia, Americas, the Middle East, Africa, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Germany, Iceland, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Malaysia and Poland. Templeton Global Income Fund’s investment manager is Franklin Advisers, Inc. (Advisers). The Fund may invest in the Franklin Institutional Fiduciary Trust Money Market Portfolio (the Sweep Money Fund), an open-end investment company managed by Advisers.

• STRA, STRAYER EDUCATION Current Caprock Strength Rating: 225.001740

Strayer Education, Inc. is a post-secondary education services corporation. The Company offers academic programs through its wholly owned subsidiary, Strayer University, Inc., both in traditional classroom courses and through Strayer University Online. The Strayer University is an institution of higher learning that offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology, education, and public administration at 47 campuses in Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, D.C., via the Internet through Strayer University Online, providing its working adult students a program offering over the Internet. It also owns Education Loan Processing, Inc. (ELP), which was organized to administer the Company?s student loan portfolio. As of December 31, 2007, the Company had more than 32,087 students enrolled in its programs.

• LKQX, LKQ CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 233.941666

LKQ Corporation is a provider of recycled light vehicle original equipment manufacturer (OEM) products and related services. The Company is also a provider of aftermarket collision replacement products, and refurbished bumper covers and wheels. The Company operates out of a total of approximately 300 facilities offering its customers a range of replacement systems, components, and parts to repair light vehicles. It participates in the market for recycled OEM products, as well as the market for collision repair aftermarket products. It obtains aftermarket products and salvage vehicles from a variety of sources, and dismantles the salvage vehicles to obtain a range of vehicle products that it distributes into the light vehicle repair market. In August 2008, LKQ Corporation announced that it has completed its acquisition of Pick-Your-Part Auto Wrecking, an auto recycler with nine recycling locations in California.

• UNT, UNIT CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 11.678202

Unit Corporation (Unit) conducts its operations through three principal wholly owned subsidiaries: Unit Drilling Company, Unit Petroleum Company and Superior Pipeline Company, L.L.C. Unit Drilling Company drills onshore oil and natural gas wells for the Company?s own account and for others (land contract drilling). Unit Petroleum Company explores, develops, acquires and produces oil and natural gas properties for its own account (oil and natural gas exploration). Superior Pipeline Company, L.L.C. buys, sells, gathers, processes and treats natural gas for its own account and for third parties (mid-stream). The drilling segment added 12 drilling rigs during the year ended December 31, 2007, and averaged an 80% utilization rate. Its oil and natural gas segment replaced 171% of its 2007 oil, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and natural gas production.

• AOC, AON CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1.451103

Aon Corporation (Aon), through its various subsidiaries, serves its clients through operating segments, Risk and Insurance Brokerage Services, which acts as an advisor and insurance broker, helping clients manage their risks, as well as negotiating and placing insurance risk with insurance carriers through its global distribution network, and Consulting, which provides advice and services to clients for employee benefits, compensation, management consulting, communications, human resource consulting, financial advisory and litigation consulting, and human resource outsourcing. Its clients include corporations and businesses, insurance companies, professional organizations, independent agents and brokers, governments and other entities. In April 2008, the Company completed the sale of Combined Insurance Company of America to ACE Limited, and Sterling Life Insurance Company to Munich Re. With sale of both Combined and Sterling, the Company exited its insurance underwriting businesses.

• SDA, SADIA S.A. Current Caprock Strength Rating: 57.907032

Sadia S.A. (Sadia) is a refrigerated and frozen protein products company, operating in the processed product, poultry, pork and beef segments. Sadia has a product portfolio of over 1,000 products. Its operations include breeding farms for poultry and hog grandparent and parent stock, hatcheries, pork breeding centers, slaughterhouses, processing units, animal feed production plants, representative offices and distribution centers. During the year ended December 31, 2007, Sadia sold 1,012.8 thousand tons of poultry, 152.7 thousand tons of pork and 57.2 thousand tons of beef and 924.0 thousand tons of processed products, including frozen and refrigerated meat-based products and margarine. The Company?s operations are organized into four segments: processed products (frozen and refrigerated products and margarines), poultry (chickens and turkeys), pork and beef. In June 2008, Sadia announced the acquisition of a 73.93% stake in Baumhardt Comercio e Participacoes Ltda. (Baumhardt).

• ECL, ECOLAB INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.403633

Ecolab Inc. (Ecolab) develops and markets products and services for the hospitality, foodservice, healthcare 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 other 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. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company acquired Apprise Technologies, Inc., Green Harbour, Fuma Pest, Eagle Environmental Systems and Microtek Medical Holdings, Inc. In September 2007, the Company completed the sale of Peter Cox Limited.

• PDS, PRECISION DRILL T Current Caprock Strength Rating: 36.324528

Precision Drilling Trust (the Trust) is an open-ended investment trust. The Trust holds a 99.86% interest in Precision Drilling Limited Partnership (PDLP), which is a limited partnership. On November 7, 2005, Precision Drilling Corporation (Precision) became a wholly owned subsidiary of PDLP. Precision amalgamated with 1195309 Alberta ULC on November 23, 2005; Live Well Service Ltd. on January 1, 2006, and Terra Water Group Ltd. (Terra) on January 1, 2007. Precision’s operations are carried out in two segments: Contract Drilling Services, and Completion and Production Services.

• CFFN, CAPITOL FEDERAL F Current Caprock Strength Rating: 69.011314

Capitol Federal Financial is a federally chartered mid-tier mutual holding company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Capitol Federal Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a federally chartered and insured savings bank headquartered in Topeka, Kansas. The Bank attracts retail deposits from the general public and invests those funds primarily in permanent loans secured by first mortgages on owner-occupied, one- to four-family (single-family) residences. It also originates consumer loans, loans secured by first mortgages on non-owner-occupied one- to four-family residences, permanent and construction loans secured by one- to four-family residences, commercial real estate loans and multi-family real estate loans. The Bank has 29 traditional and nine in-store banking offices serving primarily the entire metropolitan areas of Topeka, Wichita, Lawrence, Manhattan, Emporia and Salina, Kansas and a portion of the metropolitan area of greater Kansas City.

• DSM, DREYFUS STRA MUNI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 0.445373

Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. (the fund) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The fund?s investment objective is to maximize current income exempt from federal income tax to the extent consistent with the preservation of capital. The Dreyfus Corporation serves as the fund?s investment adviser.

• DUK, DUKE ENERGY CP HL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 38.342281

Duke Energy Corporation (Duke Energy) is an energy company located in the Americas that provides its services through four business units. The Company?s business units are U.S. Franchised Electric and Gas, Commercial Power, International Energy and Duke Energy?s 50% interest in the Crescent Resources joint venture (Crescent JV or Crescent). In May 2007, Duke Energy acquired the wind power development assets of Energy Investor Funds from Tierra Energy. The purchase includes more than 1,000 megawatts of wind assets in various stages of development in the Western and Southwestern United States. On January 2, 2007, Duke Energy completed the spin-off of its natural gas businesses, named Spectra Energy Corp., including its wholly owned subsidiary Spectra Energy Capital, LLC. The natural gas businesses spun off primarily consisted of Duke Energy?s Natural Gas Transmission business segment and Duke Energy?s 50% ownership interest in DCP Midstream, LLC.

• FCX, FREEPORT MCMORAN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 2.827534

Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, Phelps Dodge, and its majority-owned subsidiary, PT Freeport Indonesia, is a copper, gold and molybdenum mining company. In North America, the Company has six operating copper mines: Morenci, Bagdad, Sierrita and Safford in Arizona, and Chino and Tyrone in New Mexico, as well as one operating molybdenum mine: Henderson in Colorado. In South America, the Company has four operating copper mines: Cerro Verde in Peru, and Candelaria, Ojos del Salado and El Abra in Chile. The Company owns a 53.56% interest in Cerro Verde, an 80% interest in both Candelaria and Ojos del Salado and a 5% interest in El Abra. It owns 90.64% of PT Freeport Indonesia, including 9.36% owned through its wholly owned subsidiary, PT Indocopper Investama. The Company also operates Atlantic Copper S.A. (Atlantic Copper). Atlantic Copper?s operations involve the smelting and refining of copper concentrates.

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

BHP Billiton plc is a diversified resources group. The Company is a producer of energy-related products, such as energy coal, oil, gas, liquefied natural gas and uranium. Its customer sector groups (CGS) are organized into nine business units: petroleum, aluminium, base metals, diamonds and specialty products, stainless steel materials, iron ore, manganese, metallurgical coal and energy coal. The Company generally extracts and processes minerals, oil and gas in the southern hemisphere from its production operations in Australia, Latin America and southern Africa. Its sales are concentrated in the northern hemisphere. In August 2006, BHP Billiton plc completed the sale of its 45.5% interest in the Valesul Aluminio SA joint venture to its joint venture partner, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce. In April 2007, the Company acquired a 33.3% interest in Global Alumina’s Sangaredi Refinery Project in Guinea, West Africa. In July 2008, BHP Billiton plc acquired Anglo Potash Ltd.

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

MFS Charter Income Trust (the Trust) is a closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s investment objective is to seek high current income. The Fund invests its assets primarily in debt instruments. It normally invests its assets in the United States Government securities, foreign government securities, mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities of United States and foreign issuers, corporate bonds of United States and foreign issuers,, and debt instruments of issuers located in emerging market countries. The Fund may invest up to 100% of its assets in lower-quality debt instruments, including those that are in default. It may invest its assets in mortgage dollar rolls. The Fund invests in various industries, including aerospace, automotive, entertainment, industrial, banks, metals and mining, printing and publishing, and telephone services. The Fund?s investment advisor is Massachusetts Financial Services Company.

• CEF, CENTRAL FD CDA CL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 303.932526

Central Fund of Canada Limited is a specialized, self-governing, passive holding company with most of its assets held in gold and silver bullion. At October 31, 2007, 98% of Central Fund?s net assets consisted of unencumbered, segregated and insured, passive long-term holdings of gold and silver bullion.

Caprock Analytics highlights selected stocks from the over 4,000 stocks tracked and analyzed by Caprock Analytics. These stock selections include a recent Caprock Analytics Strength metric and a brief description of the company. Note that stocks with negative strength ratings indicate a degree of weakness that has been detected. These stocks are a selection of stocks, and are NOT the top rated stocks. To view the top rated stocks, please register for FREE at Caprock Analytics, login, and view the updated Stock rating lists on the website.
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• WGL, WGL HOLDINGS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 23.206200

WGL Holdings, Inc. (WGL Holdings) is a holding company that was established to own subsidiaries that sell and deliver natural gas and provide a variety of energy-related products and services to customers primarily in the District of Columbia, and the surrounding metropolitan areas in Maryland and Virginia. The Company owns all of the shares of common stock of Washington Gas Light Company (Washington Gas), a regulated natural gas utility, and all of the shares of common stock of Washington Gas Resources Corporation (Washington Gas Resources), Hampshire Gas Company (Hampshire) and Crab Run Gas Company (Crab Run). Washington Gas Resources owns three unregulated subsidiaries that include Washington Gas Energy Services, Inc. (WGEServices), Washington Gas Energy Systems, Inc. (WGESystems) and Washington Gas Credit Corporation. It operates in three business segments: regulated utility segment, retail energy-marketing segment, and commercial heating, ventilating and air conditioning segment.

• 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.

• BPT, B P PRUDHOE BAY U Current Caprock Strength Rating: 128.812286

BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (the Trust) is a grantor trust. The Trust was formed for the sole purpose of owning and administering an overriding royalty interest (the Royalty Interest) conveyed by The Standard Oil Company (Standard Oil). The Royalty Interest is a non-operational interest in minerals. The Royalty Interest entitles the Trust to a royalty on 16.4246% of the lesser of the first 90,000 barrels of the average actual daily net production of crude oil and condensate per quarter from the working interest of BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. (BP Alaska), as of February 28, 1989, in the Prudhoe Bay oil field located on the North Slope in Alaska, or the average actual daily net production of crude oil and condensate per quarter from that working interest. The Prudhoe Bay field is one of four contiguous North Slope oil fields that are operated by BP Alaska and are known collectively as the Prudhoe Bay Unit. Standard Oil and BP Alaska are indirect 100%-owned subsidiaries of the BP p.l.c.

• AIZ, ASSURANT INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 147.249084

Assurant, Inc. (Assurant) is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the Company provides specialized insurance products and related services in North America and selected international markets. Assurant provides creditor-placed homeowners insurance, manufactured housing homeowners insurance, debt protection administration, credit insurance, warranties and extended service contracts, individual health and small employer group health insurance, group dental insurance, group disability insurance, group life insurance and pre-funded funeral insurance. Assurant operates through five segments: Assurant Solutions, Assurant Specialty Property, Assurant Health, Assurant Employee Benefits, and Corporate and Other. The Corporate and Other segment includes activities of the holding company. On October 1, 2007, it acquired Centrepoint Insurance Services Limited. On July 12, 2007, the Company acquired Swansure Group. On July 1, 2007, Assurant acquired Mayflower National Life Insurance Company.

• ARG, AIRGAS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.699491

Airgas, Inc. and subsidiaries (Airgas) is a distributor of industrial, medical and specialty gases (delivered in packaged or cylinder form), and welding, safety and related products (hardgoods), such as welding equipment and supplies. Airgas is a producer of nitrous oxide in the United States, a producer and supplier of dry ice and a supplier of liquid carbon dioxide in the Southeastern United States. The Company is also a distributor of process chemicals, refrigerants and ammonia products. The Company has two operating segments: Distribution and All Other Operations. The Distribution segment primarily engages in the distribution of packaged gases and hardgoods. The All Other Operations segment consists of business units that produce and distribute carbon dioxide, dry ice, nitrous oxide, specialty gases and anhydrous ammonia. On April 4, 2008, Airgas acquired A&N Plant. The acquisition creates a new business unit of Red-D-Arc Limited, an Airgas company.

• EMR, EMERSON ELEC CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 71.880608

Emerson Electric Co (Emerson), is engaged in designing and supplying product technology and delivering engineering services in a range of industrial, commercial and consumer markets globally. The business segments of the Company includes Process Management, providing measurement, control and diagnostic capabilities for automated industrial processes producing items, such as foods, fuels, medicines and power; Industrial Automation, bringing integrated manufacturing solutions to diverse industries globally; Network Power, providing power and environmental conditioning and reliability to help keep telecommunication systems, data networks and critical business applications continuously operating; climate technologies for household and commercial comfort, as well as food safety and energy efficiency through air-conditioning and refrigeration technology, and appliance and tools, providing designed motors for applications, appliances and integrated appliance solutions.

• VRSN, VERISIGN INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 69.371475

VeriSign, Inc. (VeriSign) operates infrastructure services that enable and protect billions of interactions every day across the world?s voice, video and data networks. The Company offers a variety of Internet and communications-related services, which are marketed through Website sales, direct field sales, channel sales, telesales, and member organizations in its global affiliate network. VeriSign?s business consists of two segments: the Internet Services Group and the Communications Services Group. The Internet Services Group consists of the Information and Security Services business and the Naming Services business. The Communications Services Group provides communications services, such as connectivity and interoperability services and intelligent database services; commerce services, such as billing and operational support system services, and mobile commerce services, and content services, such as digital content and messaging services.

• 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. On September 5, 2007, WD, through its indirect wholly owned subsidiary, State M Corporation, completed the acquisition of of Komag, Incorporated.

• CFFN, CAPITOL FEDERAL F Current Caprock Strength Rating: 69.011314

Capitol Federal Financial is a federally chartered mid-tier mutual holding company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Capitol Federal Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a federally chartered and insured savings bank headquartered in Topeka, Kansas. The Bank attracts retail deposits from the general public and invests those funds primarily in permanent loans secured by first mortgages on owner-occupied, one- to four-family (single-family) residences. It also originates consumer loans, loans secured by first mortgages on non-owner-occupied one- to four-family residences, permanent and construction loans secured by one- to four-family residences, commercial real estate loans and multi-family real estate loans. The Bank has 29 traditional and nine in-store banking offices serving primarily the entire metropolitan areas of Topeka, Wichita, Lawrence, Manhattan, Emporia and Salina, Kansas and a portion of the metropolitan area of greater Kansas City.

• DSM, DREYFUS STRA MUNI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 0.445373

Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. (the fund) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The fund?s investment objective is to maximize current income exempt from federal income tax to the extent consistent with the preservation of capital. The Dreyfus Corporation serves as the fund?s investment adviser.

• CLC, CLARCOR INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.751421

CLARCOR Inc. (CLARCOR), along with its subsidiaries, conducts business in three principal industry segments: Engine/Mobile Filtration, Industrial/Environmental Filtration and Packaging. The Company?s Engine/Mobile Filtration Segment sells filtration products used on engines and in mobile equipment applications, including trucks, automobiles, buses, locomotives, and marine, construction, industrial, mining and agricultural equipment. Its Industrial/Environmental Filtration Segment centers manufacture and marketing of filtration products used in industrial and commercial processes, and in buildings and infrastructures of various types. Its consumer and industrial packaging products business is conducted by a wholly-owned subsidiary, J. L. Clark, Inc. (J. L. Clark). Effective May 1, 2008, the Company acquired a 30% interest in BioProcess Technologies, Inc. (BPT), a manufacturer of industrial waste water and water reuse filtration systems.

• CAM, CAMERON INTL CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 42.026272

Cameron International Corp (Cameron) is a provider of flow equipment products, systems and services to worldwide oil, gas and process industries. The Company?s operations are organized into three business segments: Drilling & Production Systems (DPS), Valves & Measurement (V&M) and Compression Systems (CS). DPS is a provider of systems and equipment used to control pressures, direct flows of oil and gas wells and separate oil and gas from impurities. V&M is a provider of valves and measurement systems primarily used to control, direct and measure the flow of oil and gas as they are moved from individual wellheads through flow lines, gathering lines and transmission systems to refineries, petrochemical plants and industrial centers for processing. CS is a provider of reciprocating and integrally geared centrifugal compression equipment and aftermarket parts and services.

• FPL, F P L GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.367302

FPL Group, Inc. (FPL Group) is a provider of electricity-related services. The Company has two principal operating subsidiaries, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) and FPL Energy, LLC (FPL Energy). FPL is a rate-regulated utility engaged primarily in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy. FPL Energy is the Company?s competitive energy subsidiary, which produces the majority of its electricity from clean and renewable fuels. FPL Group Capital Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of FPL Group, holds the capital stock of, or has equity interests in, FPL Group’s operating subsidiaries, other than FPL, and provides funding for those subsidiaries, including FPL Energy. As at December 31, 2007, FPL’s and FPL Energy’s generating assets, together, represented approximately 37,700 megawatt of capacity. FPL FiberNet, LLC, a wholly subsidiary of the Company, provides fiber-optic services to FPL, telecommunications companies and other customers throughout Florida.

• QGEN, QIAGEN NV Current Caprock Strength Rating: 186.214981

QIAGEN N.V. (QIAGEN) is a provider of technologies and products for preanalytical sample preparation and linked molecular assay solutions. The Company also supplies diagnostic kits, tests, and assays for human and veterinary molecular diagnostics. Products are sold to academic research markets, to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, to applied testing customers (such as in forensics, veterinary, biodefense and industrial applications), as well as to molecular diagnostics laboratories. In addition, the Company sells and/or licenses technologies to others. The Company has developed more than 500 consumable products and automated solutions. QIAGEN markets its products in more than 40 countries throughout the world. It has subsidiaries in the markets, including the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, France, Japan, China, Australia, Canada, Italy and several other countries. The Company also has specialized independent distributors and importers.

• CHD, CHURCH DWIGHT CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 95.218185

Church & Dwight Co., Inc. develops, manufactures and markets a range of household, personal care and specialty products under brand names, including ARM & HAMMER and TROJAN. The Consumer Domestic segment includes household products for deodorizing and cleaning, such as ARM & HAMMER baking soda and cat litter, and SCRUB FREE and BRILLO cleaning products; and laundry products, such as XTRA and ARM & HAMMER laundry detergents, OXICLEAN pre-wash laundry additive and XTRA NICE?N FLUFFY fabric softeners. The Consumer International segment primarily sells a variety of personal care products in international markets, including France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Spain, Brazil and China. The Specialty Products segment is a producer of sodium bicarbonate, which it sells together with other specialty inorganic chemicals for a variety of industrial, institutional, medical and food applications. This segment also sells a range of animal nutrition and specialty cleaning products.

• CMZ, COMPTON PETROLEUM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 50.024284

Compton Petroleum Corporation (Compton) is an Alberta-based independent public company actively engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas (ngls), and crude oil in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (the WCSB) in Canada. Compton’s exploration, development and exploitation activities are concentrated principally in two core areas: shallow gas resources play, targeting the Plains Belly River and overlying Edmonton Horseshoe Canyon zones, and deep gas plays that include the Basal Quartz sands at Hooker, the Gething/Rock Creek sands at Niton and Caroline in central Alberta, and the Foothills stacked, thrusted Upper Cretaceous Belly River play at Callum in the south. As of December 31, 2007, approximately 84% of the Company?s proved reserves were from natural gas. In December 2007, Compton completed the acquisition of WIN Energy Corporation.

• PACR, PACER INTL INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 2.644479

Pacer International, Inc. (Pacer International) is a non-asset based North American logistics provider. Using the Company?s information systems, it provides logistics services to numerous Fortune 500 and multi-national companies, including Big Lots, C.H. Robinson, General Electric, Sony, Union Pacific, Toyota and Conagra, which together represented approximately 19.0% of its revenues for the year ended December 28, 2007, as well as to numerous intermodal marketing companies. The Company provides its transportation services from two operating segments, its intermodal segment, which provides services principally to transportation intermediaries, beneficial cargo owners and international shipping companies who utilize intermodal transportation, and its logistics segment, which provides truck brokerage, truck transport (including specialized haulage), supply chain services, freight forwarding, ocean shipping and warehousing and distribution services to a range of end user customers.

• 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 and other industrial markets. 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. During the year ended December 31, 2007, it operated in three business segments: Energy Systems (comprising Energy Production Systems and Energy Processing Systems); FoodTech, and Airport Systems. On July 31, 2008, FMC Technologies completed the spin-off of its FoodTech and Airport Systems businesses into John Bean Technologies Corporation.

• MATK, MARTEK BIOSCIENCE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 17.617764

Martek Biosciences Corporation (Martek) develops omega-3 docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) products. The Company produces life?sDHA, a vegetarian source of the omega-3 fatty acid DHA, for use in infant formula, prenatal products, foods and beverages, and dietary supplements. It also produces arachidonic acid (ARA), an omega-6 fatty acid, for use in infant formula. The Company has developed production methods for two fatty acids, DHA and ARA. It sells oils containing these fatty acids under the names life?sDHA, DHASCO, Neuromins, ARASCO and life?sARA. Martek derives DHA from microalgae and ARA from fungi, using its own processes. The Company has entered into license agreements with 28 infant formula manufacturers. Its licensees include infant formula manufacturers, Mead Johnson Nutritionals, Nestle, Abbott Laboratories, Wyeth and Royal Numico, each of whom is selling infant formula supplemented with Martek?s nutritional oils.

• HCN, HEALTH CARE REIT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 49.511654

Health Care REIT, Inc. is an equity real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests across the spectrum of senior housing and health care real estate, including continuing care retirement communities, independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing, hospitals, long-term acute care hospitals and medical office buildings. It also offers an array of property management and development services. As of March 31, 2008, the Company had 646 properties located in 38 states. In May 2007, it completed the acquisition of 17 medical office buildings and Paramount Real Estate Services, a property management company, from affiliates of Rendina Companies.

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• CVS, CVS CAREMARK CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 104.376015

CVS Caremark Corporation (CVS Caremark) is a provider of prescriptions and related healthcare services in the United States. The Company fills or manages more than one billion prescriptions annually. As a fully integrated pharmacy services company, CVS Caremark drives value for its customers by managing pharmaceutical costs and improving healthcare outcomes through its approximately 6,200 CVS/pharmacy retail stores; CVS Caremark?s pharmacy benefit management, mail order and specialty pharmacy division, Caremark Pharmacy Services; its retail-based health clinic subsidiary, MinuteClinic, and the Company?s online pharmacy, CVS.com. Effective March 22, 2007, the Company closed its merger with Caremark Rx, Inc. (Caremark). Following the Caremark Merger, the Company changed its name to CVS Caremark Corporation. CVS Caremark operates two business segments: Retail Pharmacy and Pharmacy Services.

• WLL, WHITING PETE CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 164.504822

Whiting Petroleum Corporation is an independent oil and gas company engaged in acquisition, development, exploitation, production and exploration activities primarily in the Permian Basin, Rocky Mountains, Mid-Continent, Gulf Coast and Michigan regions of the United States. As of December 31, 2007, the Company?s estimated proved reserves totaled 250.8 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMBOE). Its estimated December 2007, average daily production was 40.3 thousands of barrels of oil equivalent per day (MBOE/d) and implies an average reserve life of approximately 17.1 years. On July 17, 2007, Whiting Petroleum Corporation sold its approximate 50% non-operated working interest in several gas fields located in the LaSalle and Webb Counties of Texas. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company sold its interests in additional non-core properties located in Colorado, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming.

• SJT, SAN JUAN BASIN RO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 68.237228

San Juan Basin Royalty Trust (the Trust) is an express trust created by the San Juan Basin Royalty Trust Indenture, known as the Original Indenture, between Southland Royalty Company (Southland Royalty) and the Fort Worth National Bank. The Trustee of the Trust is Compass Bank. The function of the Trustee is to collect the net proceeds attributable to the Royalty (Royalty Income), to pay all expenses and charges of the Trust, and then distribute the remaining available income to the Unit Holders. On September 7, 2007, Compass Bancshares, Inc. was acquired by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (BBVA) and is a wholly owned subsidiary of BBVA.

• NYT, N Y TIMES CL A Current Caprock Strength Rating: 10.988705

The New York Times Company is a diversified media company, including newspapers, Internet businesses, television and radio stations, and investments in paper mills and other investments. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company operated in two segments: News Media Group and the About Group. In May 2007, the Company closed the sale of its Broadcast Media Group to Oak Hill Capital Partners. During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 (fiscal 2007), the Company also acquired UCompareHealthCare.com, a site that provides consumers with access to quality ratings and related information on hospitals, nursing homes and doctors and ConsumerSearch.com, an online aggregator and publisher of reviews of consumer products.

• HCBK, HUDSON CITY BNCP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 395.573456

Hudson City Bancorp, Inc. (Hudson City Bancorp) serves as the holding company of its only wholly owned subsidiary, Hudson City Savings Bank (Hudson City Savings), a retail savings bank offering traditional deposit products, residential real estate mortgage loans and consumer loans. In addition, it purchases mortgages, mortgage-backed securities, securities issued by the United States Government and government-sponsored agencies and other investments. The Company retains in its portfolio substantially all of the loans it originates. Hudson City Savings? revenues are derived principally from interest on its mortgage loans and mortgage-backed securities, and interest and dividends on its investment securities. City Savings conducts its operations out of its corporate offices in Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey and through 119 branches in the New York metropolitan area. It operates 91 branches located in 16 counties throughout the State of New Jersey.

• CLC, CLARCOR INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.751421

CLARCOR Inc. (CLARCOR), along with its subsidiaries, conducts business in three principal industry segments: Engine/Mobile Filtration, Industrial/Environmental Filtration and Packaging. The Company?s Engine/Mobile Filtration Segment sells filtration products used on engines and in mobile equipment applications, including trucks, automobiles, buses, locomotives, and marine, construction, industrial, mining and agricultural equipment. Its Industrial/Environmental Filtration Segment centers manufacture and marketing of filtration products used in industrial and commercial processes, and in buildings and infrastructures of various types. Its consumer and industrial packaging products business is conducted by a wholly-owned subsidiary, J. L. Clark, Inc. (J. L. Clark). Effective May 1, 2008, the Company acquired a 30% interest in BioProcess Technologies, Inc. (BPT), a manufacturer of industrial waste water and water reuse filtration systems.

• FXE, CURRENCYSHARES EU Current Caprock Strength Rating: 439.070251
• GEO, GEO GROUP INC (TH Current Caprock Strength Rating: 0.920737

The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) is a provider of government-outsourced services specializing in the management of correctional, detention and mental health and residential treatment facilities in the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom. The Company operates a range of correctional and detention facilities, including maximum, medium and minimum security prisons, immigration detention centers, minimum security detention centers and mental health and residential treatment facilities. GEO?s correctional and detention management services involve the provision of security, administrative, rehabilitation, education, health and food services, primarily at adult male correctional and detention facilities. Its mental health and residential treatment services, which are operated through the Company?s wholly owned subsidiary GEO Care, Inc., involve the delivery of quality care, programming and active patient treatment, at privatized state mental health facilities.

• 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.

• IVGN, INVITROGEN CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 25.317347

Invitrogen Corporation (Invitrogen) is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of research tools in reagent, kit and high-throughput applications forms to customers engaged in life sciences research, drug discovery, diagnostics and the commercial manufacture of biological products. The Company is also a supplier of sera, cell and tissue culture media and reagents used in life sciences research, as well as in processes to grow cells in the laboratory and produce pharmaceuticals and other proteins. Invitrogen?s products include gel-based separations technologies, antibodies and transfection agents. The Company focuses its business into two segments: BioDiscovery and Cell Systems. The Company also divides its target customer base into two categories: life science researchers and commercial producers of biopharmaceutical and other proteins.

• SIGI, SELECTIVE INS GP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 53.364811

Selective Insurance Group, Inc. (Selective), through its subsidiaries, offers property and casualty insurance products, and diversified insurance services and products. The Company operates through three business segments: Insurance Operations, Investments and Diversified Insurance Services. The Insurance Operations segment sells property and casualty insurance products and services primarily in 21 states in the Eastern and Midwestern United States. Diversified Insurance Services provides human resource administration outsourcing products and services, and federal flood insurance administrative services. The Company?s Insurance Operations segment includes commercial lines, which markets primarily to businesses, and represents approximately 87% of Selective?s net premiums written (NPW), and personal lines, which markets primarily to individuals and represents approximately 13% of NPW.

• PT, PORTUGAL TELECM S Current Caprock Strength Rating: 109.948700

Portugal Telecom, SGPS, SA is a holding company that, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in providing a range of telecommunications and multimedia services in Portugal and other countries, including Brazil. The Company provides wireline services, which include fixed-line telephone services for residential and non-residential customers, leased lines, unbundled local loop access and wholesale line rental, interconnection, Internet access, data and business solutions, portal and e-commerce services through its subsidiaries, in particular PT Comunicacoes, S.A.. It offers mobile telecommunications services, such as voice, data and Internet-related services in Portugal through its subsidiary, TMN-Telecomunicacoes Movies Nacionais, S.A. (TMN) and in Brazil through its 50%-owned joint venture, Vivo Participacoes S.A. (Vivo). It operates through three business segments: Wireline (including Retail, Wholesale and Data and Corporate), Domestic Mobile (TMN) and Brazilian Mobile (Vivo).

• EGN, ENERGEN CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 80.369156

Energen Corporation (Energen) is a diversified energy holding company engaged primarily in the acquisition, development, exploration and production of oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids in the continental United States and in the purchase, distribution, and sale of natural gas, principally in central and north Alabama. The Company’s two principal subsidiaries are Energen Resources Corporation and Alabama Gas Corporation. Energen Resources explores for and develops reservoirs, primarily in areas, in which it has an operating presence. During the year ended December 31, 2007, Energen Resources? proved oil and gas reserves totaled 1,754 billion cubic feet equivalent. Alagasco purchases natural gas through interstate and intrastate marketers and suppliers, and distributes the purchased gas through its distribution facilities for sale to residential, commercial and industrial customers, and other end-users of natural gas.

• 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.

• CMZ, COMPTON PETROLEUM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 50.024284

Compton Petroleum Corporation (Compton) is an Alberta-based independent public company actively engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas (ngls), and crude oil in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (the WCSB) in Canada. Compton’s exploration, development and exploitation activities are concentrated principally in two core areas: shallow gas resources play, targeting the Plains Belly River and overlying Edmonton Horseshoe Canyon zones, and deep gas plays that include the Basal Quartz sands at Hooker, the Gething/Rock Creek sands at Niton and Caroline in central Alberta, and the Foothills stacked, thrusted Upper Cretaceous Belly River play at Callum in the south. As of December 31, 2007, approximately 84% of the Company?s proved reserves were from natural gas. In December 2007, Compton completed the acquisition of WIN Energy Corporation.

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

Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (Medical Properties), incorporated on August 27, 2003, is a self-advised real estate investment trust 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 operating, 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, 2007, the Company?s portfolio consisted of 28 properties, including 25 facilities, which it owns are leased to eight tenants and the remaining in the form of mortgage loans to two operators totaling an aggregate of approximately 3.3 million square feet and 3,453 licensed beds.

• GWR, GENESEE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 46.379402

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (Genesee & Wyoming) is an owner and operator of short line and regional freight railroads in the United States, Australia and Canada, and owns a minority interest in a railroad in Bolivia. In addition, the Company provides freight car switching and rail-related services to industrial companies in the United States and Australia. As of December 31, 2007, Genesee & Wyoming operated over approximately 5,800 miles of owned and leased track, and approximately 3,000 additional miles under track access arrangements. It operates in 27 states in the United States, four Australian states, and two Canadian provinces, and serves 12 United States ports and five Australian ports. During the year ended December 31, 2007, Genesee & Wyoming ceased operations in Mexico. In April 2008, Genesee & Wyoming completed the acquisition of Rotterdam Rail Feeding (RRF). In June 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of CAGY Industries, Inc.

• LH, LABORATORY CORP N Current Caprock Strength Rating: 39.657993

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings is an independent clinical laboratory company in the United States. The Company has a national network of 37 primary laboratories and over 1,600 patient service centers along with a network of branches and STAT laboratories, which are laboratories that have the ability to perform certain routine tests and report the results to the physician immediately. Through its national network of laboratories, the Company offers a range of clinical laboratory tests, which are used by the medical profession in routine testing, patient diagnosis, and in the monitoring and treatment of disease. In addition, the Company has developed specialty testing businesses based on certain types of specialized testing capabilities and client requirements, such as oncology testing, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) genotyping and phenotyping, diagnostic genetics and clinical research trials.

• MC, MATSUSHITA EL IND Current Caprock Strength Rating: 20.698673

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Matsushita) is engaged in the production and sales of electronic and electric products in an array of business areas. It offers a range of products, systems and components for consumer, business and industrial use. Most of the Company?s products are marketed under the Panasonic brand name worldwide, along with other product, or region, specific brand names, including National primarily for home appliances and household electric equipment sold in Japan, and Technics for certain high-fidelity products. Some of its subsidiaries also use their own brand names, such as PanaHome. The Company?s segments comprise audiovisual connection (AVC) networks, home appliances, components and devices, Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. (MEW) and PanaHome Corporation (PanaHome), and others. In August 2007, Victor Company of Japan Ltd. (JVC) and its consolidated subsidiaries became associated companies from Matsushita?s consolidated subsidiaries.

• ARO, AEROPOSTALE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 9.264440

Aeropostale, Inc. is a mall-based specialty retailer of casual apparel and accessories. The Company design, market and sell brand of merchandise targeting 14 to 17 year-old young women and young men. Jimmy?Z Surf Co., Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeropostale, Inc., is a California lifestyle-oriented brand targeting trend-aware young women and men aged 18 to 25. The Company also sells Aeropostale merchandise through the e-commerce Website, www.aeropostale.com. As of February 2, 2008, the Company operated 828 stores, consisting of 802 Aeropostale stores in 47 states, 12 Aeropostale stores in Canada, and 14 Jimmy?Z stores in 11 states.

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• RHB, REHABCARE GROUP I Current Caprock Strength Rating: 49.775112

RehabCare Group, Inc. is a provider of rehabilitation program management services in more than 1,200 hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, outpatient facilities and other long-term care facilities. The Company operates in three business segments: program management services, which consists of hospital rehabilitation services and contract therapy; hospitals, and other healthcare services. In partnership with healthcare providers, the Company provides post-acute program management, medical direction, physical therapy rehabilitation, quality assurance, compliance review, specialty programs and census development services. RehabCare also owns and operates three long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) and six rehabilitation hospitals, and it provides other healthcare services, including healthcare management consulting services and staffing services for therapists and nurses. The Company acquired a majority-owned joint venture rehabilitation hospital in Austin, Texas, in August 2007.

• DE, DEERE CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 353.266449

Deere & Company (John Deere), through its subsidiaries, operates in four business segments. The agricultural equipment segment manufactures and distributes a line of farm equipment and related service parts, including tractors; combine, cotton and sugarcane harvesters; tillage, seeding and soil preparation machinery; sprayers; hay and forage equipment; integrated agricultural management systems technology, and precision agricultural irrigation equipment. The commercial and consumer equipment segment manufactures and distributes equipment, products and service parts for commercial and residential uses. In May 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of LESCO, Inc. In August 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of Ningbo Benye Tractor & Automobile Manufacture Company Limited. In May 2008, the Company acquired T-Systems International, Inc., headquartered in San Diego, California. In June 2008, the Company acquired Plastro Irrigation Systems, Ltd., headquartered in Israel.

• ANDE, ANDERSONS INC (TH Current Caprock Strength Rating: 4.495631

Andersons, Inc. is an entrepreneurial company with diversified interests in the agriculture and transportation markets. The Company operates in five business segments. The Grain and Ethanol Group purchases and merchandises grain, operates grain elevator facilities located in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois and performs grain trading risk management and other services for its customers. The Rail Group sells, repairs, reconfigures, manages and leases railcars and locomotives. The Plant Nutrient Group manufactures and sells dry and liquid agricultural nutrients and distributes nutrients, chemicals, seed and supplies to dealers and farmers. The Turf and Specialty Group produces granular fertilizer products for the professional lawn care and golf course markets and private label fertilizer and corncob-based animal bedding and cat litter. The Retail Group operates six retail stores, a specialty food market and a distribution center in Ohio.

• HAE, HAEMONETICS CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 56.928413

Haemonetics Corporation is engaged in developing and manufacturing blood processing technology that help ensures a safe and adequate blood supply. The Company has been engaged in manufacturing automated systems and single use consumables used in blood donation, blood processing, and surgical salvage of blood. Its direct customers are blood and plasma collectors, hospitals and hospital service providers. Haemonetics Corporation markets devices and related consumables, information technology platforms, and consulting services. 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/Services, which markets information technology platforms and consulting services to blood and plasma collectors and hospitals.

• NQU, NUVEEN QUAL MUNI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 10.661982

Nuveen Quality Income Municipal Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a closed-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to provide current income exempt from regular federal income tax by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of municipal obligations issued by state and local government authorities or certain United States territories. The Fund invests substantially all of its assets in a diversified portfolio of tax-exempt municipal obligations rated within the four highest grades, except that up to 20% of the Fund’s assets may be invested in unrated municipal obligations deemed to be of comparable quality. The Fund’s portfolio includes sectors, such as United States guaranteed securities, transportation, tax obligation securities, utilities, healthcare, consumer staples and other. Nuveen Asset Management (NAM) is the Funds’ investment manager.

• GOLD, RANDGOLD RES LTD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 703.888306

Randgold Resources Limited is engaged in gold mining and exploration. Its discoveries as of December 31, 2007, include the 7.5 million ounce Morila deposit in southern Mali, the seven million ounce Yalea deposit at Loulo in western Mali and the four million ounce Tongon deposit in the Cote d?Ivoire. The Company financed and developed the Morila mine, which was brought into production in October 2000, and as of December 31, 2007, has produced approximately 4.75 million ounces of gold. It also financed and developed the Loulo project, which went into production, in November 2005, with two open-pit mines. Randgold Resources? focus is on the discovery and development of gold projects. This is supported by exploration projects in the major gold regions of Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Cote d?Ivoire, Ghana and Tanzania.

• AFL, A F L A C INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 200.546982

Aflac Incorporated is a general business holding company and acts as a management company, overseeing the operations of its subsidiaries by providing management services and making capital available. Its principal business is supplemental health and life insurance, which is marketed and administered through its subsidiary, American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (Aflac), which operates in the United States (Aflac U.S.) and as a branch in Japan (Aflac Japan). Aflac Japan sells supplemental insurance products, including cancer life plans, general medical indemnity plans, medical/sickness riders, care plans, living benefit life plans, ordinary life insurance plans and annuities. Aflac U.S. sells supplemental insurance products, including accident/disability plans, cancer expense plans, short-term disability plans, sickness and hospital indemnity plans, hospital intensive care plans, fixed-benefit dental plans, vision care plans, long-term care plans and life insurance products.

• FST, FOREST OIL CP (NE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 101.308121

Forest Oil Corporation (Forest) is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of natural gas and liquids primarily in North America. The Company conducts its operations in three geographical segments and five business units. Geographical segments include the United States, Canada and International. Business units include the Western United States (Western), Southern United States (Southern), Eastern, Canada and International. Forest conducts exploration and development activities in each of its geographical segments. In June 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of The Houston Exploration Company. On August 27, 2007, Forest sold all of its assets located in Alaska (the Alaska Assets) to Pacific Energy Resources Ltd. (PERL).

• KTF, DSW MUN INC TR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 6.159714

DWS Municipal Income Trust (the Fund) is a closed-end, diversified management investment company. The Fund seeks to provide high current income exempt from federal income tax by investing in a diversified portfolio of investment-grade, tax-exempt securities. It invests in individual bonds whose yields and market values fluctuate. In the normal course of business, the Fund may enter into contracts with service providers that contain general indemnification clauses. The Fund?s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the Fund that have not yet been made. Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG, serves as the investment advisor of the Fund. DWS Scudder Investments Service Company is an affiliate of the Advisor.

• AHL, ASPEN INSURANCE H Current Caprock Strength Rating: 101.554764

Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited (Aspen Holdings) is a Bermuda-based holding company. Aspen Holdings conducts insurance and reinsurance business through its wholly owned subsidiaries in three jurisdictions: Aspen Insurance UK Limited (Aspen U.K.) in United Kingdom, Aspen Insurance Limited (Aspen Bermuda) in Bermuda and Aspen Specialty Insurance Company (Aspen Specialty) in United States. It operates in the global markets for property and casualty reinsurance, and specialty insurance and reinsurance. The Company also provides commercial property and casualty insurance in the domestic markets of the United States and the United Kingdom. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company wrote $1,818.5 million in gross premiums. The Company operates in four segments: property reinsurance, casualty reinsurance, international insurance and United States insurance.

• HSP, HOSPIRA INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 0.546497

Hospira, Inc. (Hospira) is a specialty pharmaceutical and medication delivery company. Hospira is engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of specialty injectable pharmaceuticals and medication delivery systems that deliver drugs and intravenous (I.V.) fluids. Hospira is also a provider of contract manufacturing services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for formulation development, filling and finishing of injectable pharmaceuticals. Hospira?s portfolio of products is used by hospitals and alternate site providers, such as clinics, home healthcare providers and long-term care facilities. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company?s sales in United States accounted for approximately 69% and sales outside the United States accounted for the remaining 31% of its total sales.

• 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. Gold is produced in the form of dore, which is shipped to refineries for final processing. 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.

• RAI, REYNOLDS AMERICAN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.465913

Reynolds American Inc. (RAI) is a holding company. The Company has two business segments: RJR Tobacco and Conwood. RAI?s wholly owned subsidiaries include R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc. (Santa Fe); Lane, Limited (Lane); R. J. Reynolds Global Products, Inc. (GPI), and Conwood Company, LLC, Conwood Sales Co., LLC, Scott Tobacco LLC and Rosswil LLC, collectively, referred to as the Conwood companies. The RJR Tobacco segment consists of the primary operations of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. The Conwood segment consists of the Conwood companies and Lane. RAI?s wholly owned operating subsidiaries Santa Fe and GPI, among others, are included in All Other.

• 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, and the producer of electroless nickel plating chemistry for memory disk applications. The Company is organized in to two segments: Specialty Chemicals and Advanced Materials. The Specialty Chemicals segment will consist of the electronic chemicals, ultra pure chemicals, photomasks and advanced organic product line groupings. The Electronic Chemicals product line grouping will include the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) business. The Advanced Materials segment will consist of the Inorganics product line grouping and the DRC smelter operations. On March 1, 2007, the Company completed the sale of its Nickel business. On October 1, 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of Borchers GmbH.

• CLHB, CLEAN HARBORS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 45.791763

Clean Harbors, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is a provider of environmental services and an operator of non-nuclear hazardous waste treatment facilities in North America. The Company performs environmental services for over 45,000 customers, including more than 325 Fortune 500 companies, in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico. It performs environmental services through a network of more than 100 service locations, and operates six incineration facilities, nine commercial landfills, six wastewater treatment operations, and 20 transportation, storage and disposal facilities (TSDFs), as well as six polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) management facilities, and two oil and used oil products recycling facilities. Clean Harbors operates in two segments: Technical Services and Site Services. In March 2008, the Company acquired Universal Environmental, Inc., an environmental services company.

• CHTT, CHATTEM INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 195.330902

Chattem, Inc. (Chattem) is a marketer and manufacturer of a portfolio of branded over-the-counter (OTC) healthcare products, toiletries and dietary supplements, in such categories as medicated skin care products, topical pain care, oral care, internal OTC, medicated dandruff shampoos, dietary supplements and other OTC and toiletry products. The Company?s portfolio of products includes brands, such as Icy Hot, Aspercreme and Capzasin (topical pain care); Gold Bond Balmex and Cortizone-10 – medicated skin care; ACT and Herpecin-L – oral care; Selsun Blue and Selsun Blue Naturals – medicated dandruff shampoos, and Bullfrog, UltraSwim and Sun-In – other OTC and toiletry products.

• WTI, W&T OFFSHORE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 120.783859

W&T Offshore, Inc. (W&T) is an independent oil and natural gas producer, active in the acquisition, exploitation, exploration and development of oil and natural gas properties in the Gulf of Mexico area. The Company holds working interests in approximately 155 producing fields in federal and state waters. It operates wells accounting for approximately 62% of its average daily production. The Company has interests in leases covering approximately 1.7 million acres spanning across the outer continental shelf off the coasts of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama. It owns interests in approximately 539 offshore structures, of which 340 are platforms in the fields that it operates. W&T maintains these platforms and uses them to separate oil and natural gas produced from nearby wells. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company?s total proved reserves were 638.8 billions of cubic feet equivalent (Bcfe).

• 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. Southern Copper Corporation?s 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 and blister copper, and the refining of blister/anode copper to produce copper cathodes. It operates the Toquepala and Cuajone mines high in the Andes mountains. It 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 in the mining and processing of copper, molybdenum, zinc, silver, gold and lead.

• AEM, AGNICO EAGLE MINE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 290.837463

Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited (Agnico-Eagle) is a gold producer with mining operations located in northwestern Quebec, mine construction projects in northwestern Quebec, northern Finland, Nunavut and northern Mexico and exploration activities in Canada, Finland, Mexico and the United States. The Company operates through four regional units: the Quebec Region, the European Region, the Mexican Region and the Nunavut Region. The Quebec region includes the LaRonde Mine, the LaRonde Mine extension project and the Goldex and Lapa mine projects, each of which is held directly by the Company. The Company’s operations in the European Region are conducted through its indirect subsidiary, Riddarhyttan Resources AB (Riddarhyttan), which indirectly owns the Kittila mine project in Finland. The Company’s operations in the Mexican Region are conducted through its subsidiary, Agnico Eagle Mexico S.A. de C.V., which owns the Pinos Altos mine project.

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

ICON plc 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, 2007, the Company operated 67 locations in 36 countries, providing Phase I-IV clinical trial management, drug development support services, data management and biostatistics and central laboratory and imaging services. During 2007, it commenced operations in Prague, Czech Republic; Kiev, Ukraine; Bucharest, Romania; Auckland, New Zealand; Osaka, Japan; Lima, Peru, and San Antonio, United States of America. On July 12, 2007, the Company acquired 100% of the common stock of DOCS International BV, a European-based clinical research staffing organization.

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• RJET, REPUBLIC AIRWAYS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 26.193539

Republic Airways Holdings Inc. operates Chautauqua Airlines, Inc., (Chautauqua Airlines), Republic Airline Inc. (Republic Airline) and Shuttle America Corporation (Shuttle America). As of December 31, 2007, the Company offered scheduled passenger service on approximately 1,250 flights daily to 119 cities in 39 states, Canada, Mexico, Jamaica and the Bahamas pursuant to code-share agreements with AMR Corp., the parent of American Airlines, Inc., Continental Airlines, Inc., Delta Air Lines, Inc., Frontier Airlines, Inc., US Airways, Inc. and United Air Lines, Inc. The Company provides its partners with regional jet service, operating as AmericanConnection, Continental Express, Delta Connection, Frontier Airlines, US Airways Express or United Express, including service out of their hubs and focus cities in Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Houston, Indianapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Washington, D.C.

• 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 and New York Commercial Bank. New York Community Bank has 179 banking offices serving customers in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County in New York, and Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Union counties in New Jersey, and operates through six local divisions: Queens County Savings Bank, Roslyn Savings Bank, Richmond County Savings Bank, Roosevelt Savings Bank, Synergy Bank, and Garden State Community Bank. New York Commercial Bank has 38 branches serving Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Westchester County, and Long Island, including 19 branches of Atlantic Bank.

• CFFN, CAPITOL FEDERAL F Current Caprock Strength Rating: 69.011314

Capitol Federal Financial is a federally chartered mid-tier mutual holding company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Capitol Federal Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a federally chartered and insured savings bank headquartered in Topeka, Kansas. The Bank attracts retail deposits from the general public and invests those funds primarily in permanent loans secured by first mortgages on owner-occupied, one- to four-family (single-family) residences. It also originates consumer loans, loans secured by first mortgages on non-owner-occupied one- to four-family residences, permanent and construction loans secured by one- to four-family residences, commercial real estate loans and multi-family real estate loans. The Bank has 29 traditional and nine in-store banking offices serving primarily the entire metropolitan areas of Topeka, Wichita, Lawrence, Manhattan, Emporia and Salina, Kansas and a portion of the metropolitan area of greater Kansas City.

• UNT, UNIT CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 11.678202

Unit Corporation (Unit) conducts its operations through three principal wholly owned subsidiaries: Unit Drilling Company, Unit Petroleum Company and Superior Pipeline Company, L.L.C. Unit Drilling Company drills onshore oil and natural gas wells for the Company?s own account and for others (land contract drilling). Unit Petroleum Company explores, develops, acquires and produces oil and natural gas properties for its own account (oil and natural gas exploration). Superior Pipeline Company, L.L.C. buys, sells, gathers, processes and treats natural gas for its own account and for third parties (mid-stream). The drilling segment added 12 drilling rigs during the year ended December 31, 2007, and averaged an 80% utilization rate. Its oil and natural gas segment replaced 171% of its 2007 oil, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and natural gas production.

• DNP, DNP SELECT INCOME Current Caprock Strength Rating: 60.749287

DNP Select Income Fund Inc. (the Fund) is a closed-end diversified management investment company. The primary investment objectives of the Fund are current income and long-term growth of income. Capital appreciation is a secondary objective. The Fund has engaged Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. (the Adviser) to provide professional investment management services for the Fund and has engaged J. J. B. Hilliard, W. L. Lyons, Inc. (the Administrator) to provide administrative and management services for the Fund.

• 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: Flowers Foods Bakeries Group (Flowers Bakeries) and Flowers Foods Specialty Group (Flowers Specialty). The Company produces fresh packaged and frozen bakery products. Flowers Bakeries focuses on producing and marketing bakery products in the southeastern, southwestern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. Flowers Bakeries markets a variety of breads and rolls under the brands outlined in the table above. Flowers Specialty produces snack cakes for sale to retail, vending, and co-pack customers as well as frozen bread, rolls and buns for sale to retail and foodservice customers. In August 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of ButterKrust Bakery. In August 2008, the Company announced the completion of its merger with Holsum Bakery, Inc.

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

Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS) is a provider of mobile cellular communications services in Russia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Ukraine. It had a subscriber base of 82 million (57.4 million in Russia, 20 million in Ukraine, 2.8 million in Uzbekistan, 0.4 million in Turkmenistan and 1.4 million in Armenia) at December 31, 2007. In addition to standard voice services, MTS offers its subscribers value-added services, including voice mail, short message service (SMS), general packet radio service (GPRS), and various SMS- and GPRS-based information and entertainment services (including multi-media message service (MMS). The Company also offers its subscribers the ability to roam automatically throughout Europe and in much of the rest of the world, and as of December 31, 2007, it had bilateral roaming agreements with 501 wireless operators in 201 countries. In September 2007, the Company acquired an 80% stake in International Cell Holding Ltd., a 100% indirect owner of K-Telekom.

• 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: Flowers Foods Bakeries Group (Flowers Bakeries) and Flowers Foods Specialty Group (Flowers Specialty). The Company produces fresh packaged and frozen bakery products. Flowers Bakeries focuses on producing and marketing bakery products in the southeastern, southwestern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. Flowers Bakeries markets a variety of breads and rolls under the brands outlined in the table above. Flowers Specialty produces snack cakes for sale to retail, vending, and co-pack customers as well as frozen bread, rolls and buns for sale to retail and foodservice customers. In August 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of ButterKrust Bakery. In August 2008, the Company announced the completion of its merger with Holsum Bakery, Inc.

• OFIX, ORTHOFIX INTL NV Current Caprock Strength Rating: 27.007980

Orthofix International N.V. (Orthofix) is an orthopedic products company offering a line of surgical and non-surgical products for the spine, orthopedics, sports medicine and vascular market sectors. Its products are designed to address the lifelong bone-and-joint health needs of patients of all ages. Orthofix?s business is divided into four segments: Orthofix Domestic (Domestic), Blackstone, Breg, and Orthofix International (International). Domestic consists of operations of its subsidiary Orthofix Inc Blackstone specializes in the design, development and marketing of spinal implant and related human cellular, and tissue based products (HCT/P) through Blackstone Medical, Inc. (Blackstone). Breg designs, manufactures, and distributes orthopedic products for post-operative reconstruction and rehabilitative patient use. International consists of locations in Europe, Mexico, Brazil, and Puerto Rico, as well as independent distributors outside the United States.

• NJ, NIDEC CP (NIHON) Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1.335129

Nidec Corporation (Nidec) is a manufacturer of spindle motors for computer hard disk drives. The Company also produces a variety of other small precision brushless direct current (DC) motors. As of March 31, 2007, the Company operated through 117 subsidiaries located in 17 countries, and four affiliated companies located in four countries. The Company acquired 98.9% of Fujisoku Corporation in November 2006 and 100% of the voting rights of the Motors & Actuators business of Valeo S.A. in December 2006. In addition, it acquired 87.1% of Brilliant Manufacturing Limited in February 2007.

• NTES, NETEASE.COM ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 2.720587

NetEase.com, Inc. operates an interactive online community in China, and is a provider of Chinese language content and services through its online games, Internet portal and wireless value-added services businesses. The Company generates revenues from fees it charge users of its online games and from selling advertisements on the NetEase Websites, and to a much lesser extent, of wireless value-added and other fee-based services. The Company?s basic service offerings on the NetEase Websites are available without charge to its users.

• BKN, BLACKROCK INV MUN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 34.977795

BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust, Inc. (the Trust) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Trust’s investment objective is to provide current income exempt from regular federal income tax. BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust, Inc. invests in various sectors, including hospitals, power, education, transportation, housing, water and sewer, tobacco, and industrial and pollution control. The Trust’s investment advisor is BlackRock Advisors, Inc. and its sub-advisor is BlackRock Financial Management, Inc., both of which are wholly owned subsidiaries of BlackRock, Inc.

• RSCR, RES-CARE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 22.059252

Res-Care, Inc. is a human service company that provides residential, therapeutic, job training and educational supports to people with developmental or other disabilities, to youth with special needs, to adults who are experiencing barriers to employment and to older people who need home care assistance. The Company?s programs include an array of services provided in both residential and non-residential settings for adults and youths with intellectual, cognitive or other developmental disabilities, and youths who have special educational or support needs, are from disadvantaged backgrounds, or have severe emotional disorders, including some who have entered the juvenile justice system. As of December 31, 2007, it had three segments: Community Services, Job Corps Training Services and Employment Training Services. In July 2008, the Company announced the acquisition of Caregivers Home Health, Inc., a Wisconsin home care company with operations in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Florida.

• CDE, COEUR D ALENE CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 29.986561

Coeur d?Alene Mines Corporation (Coeur) is a silver producer located in North America and is engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the operation and/or ownership, development and exploration of silver and gold mining properties and companies located primarily within the United States (Nevada and Alaska), South America (Chile, Argentina and Bolivia), Australia (New South Wales), Mexico (Chihuahua) and Africa (Tanzania). The Company, either directly or through wholly owned subsidiaries, owns, leases and has interests in certain exploration-stage mining properties located in the United States, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico and Tanzania. On December 21, 2007, the Company acquired all of the outstanding stock of Bolnisi Gold NL (Bolnisi) and Palmarejo Silver and Gold Corporation (Palmarejo).

• NGPC, NGP CAPITAL RESOU Current Caprock Strength Rating: 23.226631

NGP Capital Resources Company is a financial services company established to invest primarily in small and mid-size private energy companies. The Company?s investment objective is to generate both current income and capital appreciation primarily through debt investments with certain equity components. It is a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company (BDC) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act). A key focus area for its targeted investments in the energy industry is domestic upstream businesses that produce, develop, acquire and explore for oil and natural gas. The Company also evaluates investment opportunities in such businesses as coal, power, electricity, energy services and alternative energy. The Company?s operations are conducted by its external manager, NGP Investment Advisor, LP, (the Manager), pursuant to an investment advisory agreement between NGP Capital Resources Company.

• ECA, ENCANA CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 69.142899

EnCana Corporation (EnCana) is a natural gas producer. The Company is one of the holders of natural gas and oil resource lands onshore North America. EnCana’s other operations include the transportation and marketing of crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids, as well as the refining of crude oil and the marketing of refined petroleum products. All of EnCana’s proved reserves and production come from onshore North America. The Corporation is also engaged in select exploration activities internationally. In January of 2007, EnCana, with ConocoPhillips, completed the creation of an integrated oil business.

• CNL, CLECO CP(HLDG CO) Current Caprock Strength Rating: 6.245668

Cleco Corporation holds investments in several subsidiaries, including Cleco Power LLC (Cleco Power) and Cleco Midstream Resources LLC (Midstream), which are its operating business segments. Cleco Power is an electric utility, which is engaged principally in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity, within Louisiana. Cleco Power serves approximately 273,000 customers in 106 communities in central and southeastern Louisiana. Midstream is a merchant energy subsidiary that owns and operates merchant generation stations and invests in joint ventures that own and operate a merchant generation station. On February 1, 2007, the ownership interests of Midstream?s transmission interconnection facilities, Perryville Energy Holdings LLC and Attala Transmission LLC were transferred to Cleco Corporation.

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

Equitable Resources, Inc. (Equitable Resources) is an integrated energy company engaged on Appalachian area natural gas activities, including production, gathering and processing, and distribution, transmission, storage and marketing. The Company and its subsidiaries offer energy (natural gas, and a limited amount of natural gas liquids and crude oil) products and services to wholesale and retail customers. The segments of the Company include Equitable Supply and Equitable Utilities. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Equitable Supply segment sold to Pine Mountain Oil and Gas, Inc. (PMOG), a subsidiary of Range Resources Corporation (Range), a portion of the Company?s interests in certain gas properties in the Nora area totaling approximately 74 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of proved reserves. In 2007, the Company purchased an additional working interest of approximately 13.5% in the Roaring Fork area in Virginia and certain gathering assets from a minority interest holder.

• XTXI, CROSSTEX ENERGY I Current Caprock Strength Rating: 60.320435

Crosstex Energy, Inc. was established to engage in the gathering, transmission, treating, processing and marketing of natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs) through its subsidiaries. The Company?s assets consist almost of partnership interests in Crosstex Energy, L.P. (CELP), which is engaged in the gathering, transmission, treating, processing and marketing of natural gas and NGLs. These partnership interests consist of 16,414,830 common units representing an aggregate 36% limited partner interest in CELP, and 100% ownership interest in Crosstex Energy GP, L.P., the general partner of CELP, which owns a 2% general partner interest and all of the incentive distribution rights in CELP. CELP is an independent midstream energy company engaged in the gathering, transmission, treating, processing and marketing of natural gas and NGLs. CELP has two operating segments: Midstream and Treating.

• RSG, REPUBLIC SVCS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 7.393464

Republic Services, Inc. is a provider of services in the domestic non-hazardous solid waste industry. Its operations primarily consist of the collection, transfer and disposal of non-hazardous solid waste. The Company provides non-hazardous solid waste collection services for commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers through 136 collection companies in 21 states. It also owns or operates 94 transfer stations, 58 solid waste landfills and 33 recycling facilities. As of December 31, 2007, its operations were organized into five regions: Eastern, Central, Southern, Southwestern and Western. Each region is organized into several operating areas and each area contains multiple operating locations. Each of the Company?s regions and substantially all its areas provide collection, transfer, recycling and disposal services.

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• BBG, BILL BARRETT CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 99.990746

Bill Barrett Corporation is engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas and crude oil, and all of the Company?s operations are conducted in the United States. The Company began active natural gas and oil operations with the acquisition of properties in the Wind River Basin. It acquired these properties from a subsidiary of the Williams Companies, which acquired these properties in connection with the Williams Companies? acquisition of Barrett Resources Corporation. In June 2007, it sold its Williston Basin properties.

• MXGL, MAX CAPITAL GROUP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 12.763169

Max Capital Group Ltd. (Max Capital), formerly Max Re Capital Ltd., is a global provider of specialty insurance and reinsurance products for the property and casualty market, with underwriting operations based in Bermuda, Ireland and the United States. It underwrites a diversified portfolio of risks that encompass long-tail business, including but not limited to general liability, medical malpractice, professional liability and workers compensation risks, as well as short-tail business, including but not limited to property, property catastrophe, aviation, and marine and energy risks. The Company also provides reinsurance for the life and annuity market when opportunities arise. Max Capital operates in the reinsurance and insurance business serving four segments: the property and casualty reinsurance segment, the property and casualty insurance segment, the U.S. excess and surplus lines insurance segment, and the life and annuity reinsurance segment.

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

MFS Charter Income Trust (the Trust) is a closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s investment objective is to seek high current income. The Fund invests its assets primarily in debt instruments. It normally invests its assets in the United States Government securities, foreign government securities, mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities of United States and foreign issuers, corporate bonds of United States and foreign issuers,, and debt instruments of issuers located in emerging market countries. The Fund may invest up to 100% of its assets in lower-quality debt instruments, including those that are in default. It may invest its assets in mortgage dollar rolls. The Fund invests in various industries, including aerospace, automotive, entertainment, industrial, banks, metals and mining, printing and publishing, and telephone services. The Fund?s investment advisor is Massachusetts Financial Services Company.

• HK, PETROHAWK ENERGY Current Caprock Strength Rating: 35.155827

Petrohawk Energy Corporation (Petrohawk) is an independent oil and natural gas company engaged in the acquisition, development, production and exploration of oil and natural gas properties located onshore in North America. The Company?s properties are primarily located in the Mid-Continent region, including North Louisiana, the Fayetteville Shale in the Arkoma basin of Arkansas and in the Western region, including the Permian Basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. At December 31, 2007, the Company?s estimated total proved oil and natural gas reserves were approximately 1,062 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent, consisting of 18 million barrels of oil, and 955 billion cubic feet of natural gas and natural gas liquids.

• GNA, GERDAU AMERISTEEL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 48.507683

Gerdau Ameristeel Corporation (Gerdau Ameristeel) is a minimill steel producer in North America with an annual manufacturing capacity of 12 million tons of mill finished steel products. Through its vertically integrated network of 19 mills (including one 50%-owned minimill), 19 scrap recycling facilities and 61 downstream operations, the Company primarily serves customers throughout the United States and Canada. The Company’s operations are segmented into two operating divisions: minimills and downstream operations. Gerdau Ameristeel conducts its operations directly and indirectly through subsidiaries and joint ventures in Canada and the United States. In October 2007, Gerdau Ameristeel acquired Enco Materials, Inc. In September 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of Chaparral Steel Company. In April 2008, the Company announced that Pacific Coast Steel (PCS), a majority-owned Gerdau Ameristeel joint venture, acquired all the assets of Century Steel, Inc.

• HEW, HEWITT ASSOC INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 116.713028

Hewitt Associates, Inc. (Hewitt) is a global provider of human resource benefits, outsourcing and consulting services. Hewitt?s three business segments: Benefits Outsourcing, Human Resource Business Process Outsourcing (HR BPO) and Consulting, help clients develop, implement, and deliver strategies and programs that for human resources business process design, administration, and technologies, as well as help manage the human elements necessary to acquire, develop, motivate, and retain the talent required to meet business objectives. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, approximately of the Company?s net revenues 50% were generated by its Benefits Outsourcing business, approximately 30% by its Consulting segment and approximately 20% by its HR BPO segment. It has ownership interest in Hewitt Associates LLC that serves as its operating entity in the United States. In September 2007, it acquired RealLife HR. In March 2008, Hewitt acquired New Bridge Street Consultants.

• STT, STATE STREET CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 233.163345

State Street Corporation is a financial holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, including its banking subsidiary, State Street Bank and Trust Company, State Street Corporation, provides a range of products and services for institutional investors globally. The Company operates in three lines of business: Investment Management, Investment Research and Trading, and Investment Servicing. The business provide services to support institutional investors, including custody, daily pricing and administration, brokerage and other trading services, deposit and short-term investment facilities, loan and lease financing, investment manager and hedge fund manager operations outsourcing, performance, risk and compliance analytics, investment research and investment management, including passive and active United States and non-United States equity and fixed income strategies.

• NJ, NIDEC CP (NIHON) Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1.335129

Nidec Corporation (Nidec) is a manufacturer of spindle motors for computer hard disk drives. The Company also produces a variety of other small precision brushless direct current (DC) motors. As of March 31, 2007, the Company operated through 117 subsidiaries located in 17 countries, and four affiliated companies located in four countries. The Company acquired 98.9% of Fujisoku Corporation in November 2006 and 100% of the voting rights of the Motors & Actuators business of Valeo S.A. in December 2006. In addition, it acquired 87.1% of Brilliant Manufacturing Limited in February 2007.

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

The Navigators Group, Inc. (Navigators Group) 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 company subsidiaries (Insurance Companies) and its operations at Lloyd’s of London (Lloyd’s Operations). The Insurance Companies consist of Navigators Insurance Company, which includes a United Kingdom 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. and Lloyd?s of London underwriting agency.

• UVV, UNIVERSAL CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 31.137901

Universal Corporation (Universal) is a leaf tobacco merchant and processor. The Company operates in three reportable segments, North America, Other Regions and Other Tobacco Operations. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008 (fiscal 2008), the North America and Other Regions segments was part of the Company?s flue-cured and burley tobacco operations. Its tobacco operations has eight segments: North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Dark Air-Cured, Oriental, and Special Services. North America, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia are primarily involved in flue-cured and/or burley leaf tobacco operations for supply to cigarette manufacturers. Dark Air-Cured supplies dark air-cured tobacco principally to manufacturers of cigars, pipe tobacco, and smokeless tobacco products, and Oriental supplies oriental tobacco to cigarette manufacturers. The remaining non-tobacco businesses, which were not part of the sale of Deli Operations, were sold in fiscal 2008.

• BPT, B P PRUDHOE BAY U Current Caprock Strength Rating: 128.812286

BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (the Trust) is a grantor trust. The Trust was formed for the sole purpose of owning and administering an overriding royalty interest (the Royalty Interest) conveyed by The Standard Oil Company (Standard Oil). The Royalty Interest is a non-operational interest in minerals. The Royalty Interest entitles the Trust to a royalty on 16.4246% of the lesser of the first 90,000 barrels of the average actual daily net production of crude oil and condensate per quarter from the working interest of BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. (BP Alaska), as of February 28, 1989, in the Prudhoe Bay oil field located on the North Slope in Alaska, or the average actual daily net production of crude oil and condensate per quarter from that working interest. The Prudhoe Bay field is one of four contiguous North Slope oil fields that are operated by BP Alaska and are known collectively as the Prudhoe Bay Unit. Standard Oil and BP Alaska are indirect 100%-owned subsidiaries of the BP p.l.c.

• NUE, NUCOR CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 80.432022

Nucor Corporation is engaged in the manufacture and sale of steel and steel products. The Company operates in two business segments: steel mills and steel products. Principal products from the steel mills segment include hot-rolled steel and cold-rolled steel. Steel mills segment?s hot-rolled steel products include angles, rounds, flats, channels, sheet, wide-flange beams, pilings, billets, blooms, beam blanks and plate. Principal products from the steel products segment include steel joists and joist girders, steel deck, cold finished steel, steel fasteners, metal building systems and light gauge steel framing. In March 2008, Nucor Corporation completed the acquisition of SHV North America Corporation, which owns 100% of The David J. Joseph Company (DJJ) and related affiliates. In April 2008, Nucor Corporation completed the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Metal Recycling Services Inc. MRS will operate under the name, Metal Recycling Services, LLC.

• STFC, STATE AUTO FINL C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 6.305928

State Auto Financial Corporation (State Auto Financial) is a property and casualty insurance holding company. The Company is primarily engaged in writing both personal and business lines of insurance. State Auto Financial owns 100% of State Auto Property & Casualty Insurance Company (State Auto P&C), Milbank Insurance Company (Milbank), Farmers Casualty Insurance Company (Farmers), State Auto Insurance Company of Ohio (SA Ohio) and State Auto National Insurance Company (SA National), each of which is a property and casualty insurance company. State Auto Financial owns 100% of Stateco Financial Services, Inc. (Stateco), which provides investment management services to affiliated insurance companies. It also owns 100% of Strategic Insurance Software, Inc. (S.I.S.), a developer and seller of insurance-related software. State Auto P&C and Stateco share ownership of 518 Property Management and Leasing, LLC (518 PML), which owns and leases property to affiliated companies.

• RHB, REHABCARE GROUP I Current Caprock Strength Rating: 49.775112

RehabCare Group, Inc. is a provider of rehabilitation program management services in more than 1,200 hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, outpatient facilities and other long-term care facilities. The Company operates in three business segments: program management services, which consists of hospital rehabilitation services and contract therapy; hospitals, and other healthcare services. In partnership with healthcare providers, the Company provides post-acute program management, medical direction, physical therapy rehabilitation, quality assurance, compliance review, specialty programs and census development services. RehabCare also owns and operates three long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) and six rehabilitation hospitals, and it provides other healthcare services, including healthcare management consulting services and staffing services for therapists and nurses. The Company acquired a majority-owned joint venture rehabilitation hospital in Austin, Texas, in August 2007.

• 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, 2007, the Company owned 202 properties located in 32 states. Senior apartments are marketed to residents, who are capable of caring for themselves. Residence is usually restricted on the basis of age. Independent living properties, or congregate care communities, also provide privacy to residents and require residents to be independent. Assisted living properties have one bedroom units, which include private bathrooms and efficiency kitchens. Services bundled within one charge usually include three meals per day in a central dining room, daily housekeeping, laundry, medical reminders and 24-hour availability of assistance with the activities of daily living, such as dressing and bathing. Professional nursing and healthcare services are available at the property on call or at regularly scheduled times.

• ATR, APTAR GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 16.487984

AptarGroup, Inc. (AptarGroup) is a supplier of a range of dispensing systems for the personal care, fragrance/cosmetic, pharmaceutical, household and food/beverage markets. The Company focuses on providing value-added dispensing systems (pumps, closures and aerosol valves) to global consumer product marketers. It is organized into three reportable business segments. Operations that sell spray and lotion dispensing systems and accessories primarily to the personal care, fragrance/cosmetic and household markets form the Beauty & Home segment. Operations that sell dispensing systems to the pharmaceutical market form the Pharma segment. Operations that sell closures to each market served by AptarGroup form the Closures segment. AptarGroup has manufacturing facilities located worldwide, including North America, Europe, Asia and South America. In April 2008, the Company acquired a 70% interest in Next Breath LLC, a contract service organization located in Baltimore, Maryland.

• AFL, A F L A C INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 200.546982

Aflac Incorporated is a general business holding company and acts as a management company, overseeing the operations of its subsidiaries by providing management services and making capital available. Its principal business is supplemental health and life insurance, which is marketed and administered through its subsidiary, American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (Aflac), which operates in the United States (Aflac U.S.) and as a branch in Japan (Aflac Japan). Aflac Japan sells supplemental insurance products, including cancer life plans, general medical indemnity plans, medical/sickness riders, care plans, living benefit life plans, ordinary life insurance plans and annuities. Aflac U.S. sells supplemental insurance products, including accident/disability plans, cancer expense plans, short-term disability plans, sickness and hospital indemnity plans, hospital intensive care plans, fixed-benefit dental plans, vision care plans, long-term care plans and life insurance products.

• 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.

• NTRS, NORTHERN TR CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 134.052872

Northern Trust Corporation is a financial holding company, which provides investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary, and banking solutions for corporations, institutions, and affluent individuals. The Company conducts business through various United States and non-United States subsidiaries, including The Northern Trust Company (Bank). Northern Trust has organized its services globally around its two client-focused principal business units: Corporate and Institutional Services (C&IS) and Personal Financial Services (PFS). C&IS is a provider of asset servicing, asset management, and related services. PFS provides personal trust, investment management, custody, and philanthropic services; financial consulting; guardianship and estate administration; qualified retirement plans, and private and business banking. Two other business units provide services to the two principal business units, Northern Trust Global Investments and Worldwide Operations and Technology.

• NDAQ, NASDAQ STOCK MKT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 26.383184

NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., formerly The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., is a holding company operating The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC as its wholly owned subsidiary. Nasdaq commenced operations as a registered national securities exchange for Nasdaq-listed securities. The Company, through its subsidiaries provides securities listing, trading, and information products and services. The Company?s segments include Market Services segment and Issuer Services segment. The Market Services segment includes the transaction-based business and market information services business. The Issuer Services segment includes securities listings business, insurance business, shareholder, directors and newswire services and financial products business. On September 26, 2007, the Company sold its remaining holdings in LSE?s share capital to Borse Dubai. In July 2008, the Company completed its previously announced acquisition of Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc. (PHLX).

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• TJX, T J X COS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 47.664700

The TJX Companies, Inc. is an off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in the United States and worldwide. The Company?s T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and A.J. Wright chains in the United States, its Winners chain in Canada, and its T.K. Maxx chain in Europe sell off-price family apparel and home fashions. The Company?s HomeGoods chain in the United States and its HomeSense chain, operated by Winners in Canada, sell off-price home fashions. The target customer for all of its off-price chains, except A.J. Wright, is the middle-to upper-middle income shopper, with the same profile as a department or specialty store customer. A.J. Wright targets the moderate-income customer. The TJX Companies, Inc.?s seven off-price chains are synergistic in their philosophies and operating platforms. The Company has over 500 buyers, 10,000 vendors worldwide and over 2,500 stores.

• WMB, WILLIAMS COS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 35.454456

The Williams Companies, Inc. (Williams) is a natural gas company. The Company primarily finds, produces, gathers, processes and transports natural gas. Its operations are concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountains, Gulf Coast and the Eastern Seaboard. Its activities are primarily operated through business segments, which include Exploration & Production, Gas Pipeline, Midstream Gas & Liquids, and Gas Marketing Services. Exploration & Production produces, develops and manages natural gas reserves primarily located in the Rocky Mountain and Mid-Continent regions of the United States. Gas Pipeline includes interstate natural gas pipelines and pipeline joint venture investments. Midstream Gas & Liquids includes natural gas gathering, treating and processing business. Gas Marketing Services manage its natural gas commodity risk. Other primarily consists of corporate operations. Other also includes the Company?s interest in Longhorn Partners Pipeline, L.P.

• HGT, HUGOTON ROYALTY T Current Caprock Strength Rating: 45.132065

Hugoton Royalty Trust (the Trust) is an express trust created under the laws of Texas pursuant to the Hugoton Royalty Trust Indenture entered into on December 1, 1998 between XTO Energy Inc., as grantor, and NationsBank, N.A., as trustee. Bank of America, N.A. succeeded NationsBank as the trustee of the Trust. Effective December 1, 1998, XTO Energy conveyed to the Trust 80% net profits interests in certain natural gas producing working interest properties in Kansas, Oklahoma and Wyoming under three separate conveyances. In exchange for these net profits interest conveyances to the Trust, 40 million units of beneficial interest were issued to XTO Energy. In May 2006, XTO Energy distributed all of its remaining 21.7 million trust units. As of December 31, 2006, XTO Energy is not a unitholder of the trust. The net profits interests entitle the Trust to receive 80% of the net proceeds from the sale of oil and gas from the underlying properties.

• PRA, PROASSURANCE CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 56.691349

ProAssurance Corporation is a holding company for property and casualty insurance companies focused on professional liability insurance. The Company sells professional liability insurance primarily to physicians, dentists, other healthcare providers and healthcare facilities, principally in the mid-Atlantic, Midwest and southern United States. ProAssurance Corporation also has a legal professional liability business in the Midwest. The Company maintains 15 local claims and/or underwriting offices to have a local presence in the markets it serves. ProAssurance Corporation?s core operating subsidiaries are The Medical Assurance Company, Inc., ProNational Insurance Company, NCRIC Insurance Company, Inc., Physicians Insurance Company of Wisconsin, Inc. (PIC Wisconsin) and Red Mountain Casualty Insurance Company, Inc. The Company also writes a limited amount of medical professional liability insurance through its non-core operating subsidiary, Woodbrook Casualty Insurance, Inc.

• NHP, NATIONWIDE HLTH P Current Caprock Strength Rating: 134.354874

Nationwide Health Properties, Inc. (NHP) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests primarily in healthcare-related senior housing, long-term care properties and medical office buildings. As of December 31, 2007, the Company had investments in 560 healthcare facilities located in 43 states. Its operations are organized into two segments: triple-net leases and multi-tenant leases. In the triple-net leases segment, NHP invests in healthcare related properties and lease the facilities to unaffiliated tenants. In the multi-tenant leases segment, it invests in healthcare related properties that have several tenants under separate leases. As of December 31, 2007, approximately 93% of NHP?s revenues are derived from its leases, with the remaining 7% from the Company?s mortgage loans and other financing activities.

• AGU, AGRIUM INC. Current Caprock Strength Rating: 430.409576

Agrium Inc. (Agrium) is a global producer and marketer of agricultural nutrients, industrial products and specialty products, and a retail supplier of agriculture products and services in North and South America. Agrium produces and markets three primary groups of nutrients: nitrogen, potash, and phosphate, as well as controlled-release products and micronutrients. The Company operates through three business segments. The Retail segment markets crop nutrients, crop protection products, seeds, custom application and other agronomic services to customers through 444 outlets in the United States, Argentina and Chile. The Wholesale segment manufactures, purchases and markets a range of nutrients, including nitrogen-based, potash and phosphate-based crop nutrient products. The Advanced Technologies segment consists of crop nutrient technologies and professional products, including the controlled-release crop nutrient and professional products businesses of Nu-Gro and Pursell Technologies.

• FCL, FOUNDATION COAL H Current Caprock Strength Rating: 137.504166

Foundation Coal Holdings, Inc. (Foundation Coal) is a coal producer in the United States that operates a group of 13 mines located in Wyoming, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company sold 73.6 million tons of coal, including 71.8 million tons that were produced and processed at its operations. As of December 31, 2007, it had approximately 1.6 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves. Foundation Coal is also involved in marketing coal produced by others to supplement its own production. The Company is primarily a supplier of steam coal to United States utilities for use in generating electricity. It also sells steam coal to industrial plants. Steam coal sales accounted for 97% of its coal sales volume and 89% of its coal sales revenue in 2007. The Company also sells metallurgical coal to steel producers; metallurgical sales accounted for 3% of its coal sales volume and 11% of its coal sales revenue in 2007.

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

Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (WRIT) is a self-administered, self-managed, equity real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company?s business consists of the ownership and development of real properties in the greater Washington metro region. As of December 31, 2007, WRIT owned a diversified portfolio of 89 properties, consisting of 14 retail centers, 25 office properties, 17 medical office properties, 23 industrial/flex properties, 10 multifamily properties encompassing in the aggregate 12.8 million net rentable square feet, and land for development.

• KMR, KINDER MORGAN MNG Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.535538

Kinder Morgan Management, LLC is a limited partner in Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P., and manages and controls its business and affairs pursuant to a delegation of control agreement. As of December 31, 2007, the Company owned approximately 29.2% of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P.?s limited partner interests. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. is the owner and operator of an independent refined petroleum products pipeline system in the United States. The Company’s voting shares are owned by Kinder Morgan, G.P., Inc., of which Knight Inc. owns all the outstanding common equity. Kinder Morgan G.P., Inc. is the general partner of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. Kinder Morgan, Inc., is an energy transportation and storage company in North America, operating, either for itself or on behalf of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. On April 30, 2007, the Company acquired the Trans Mountain pipeline system from Knight Inc.

• KEX, KIRBY CORPORATION Current Caprock Strength Rating: 156.771103

Kirby Corporation is a marine transportation and diesel engine services company. The Company through its subsidiaries, conducts operations in two business segments: marine transportation and diesel engine services. The marine transportation segment is engaged in the inland transportation of petrochemicals, black oil products, refined petroleum products and agricultural chemicals by tank barges, and, to a lesser extent, the offshore transportation of dry-bulk cargoes by barge. The diesel engine services segment is engaged in the overhaul and repair of diesel engines and reduction gears, and related parts sales in three markets: the marine market, the power generation market and the railroad market. On July 20, 2007, the Company purchased substantially all of the assets of Saunders, a Gulf Coast high-speed diesel engine services provider.

• PRXL, PAREXEL INTL CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 352.510712

PAREXEL International Corporation (PAREXEL) is a bio/pharmaceutical services company, providing a range of capability in clinical research, medical communications services, consulting, and informatics and technology products and services to the worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. The Company?s product and service offerings include clinical trials management, data management, biostatistical analysis, medical communications services, clinical pharmacology, patient recruitment, regulatory and product development consulting, health policy and reimbursement, performance improvement, industry training and publishing, medical imaging services, interactive voice response systems (IVRS), clinical trial management systems (CTMS), Web-based portals, systems integration, and other drug development services. In March 2008, PAREXEL announced the sale of a bioanalytical laboratory in Poitiers, France, to SYNEXEL Research International, a subsidiary of Synchron.

• BAS, BASIC ENERGY SRVC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 11.607390

Basic Energy Services, Inc. provide a range of well site services to oil and gas drilling and producing companies. The Company conducts its operations through four business segments: Well Servicing, Fluid Services, Completion and Remedial Services and Well Site Construction Services. The well servicing segment encompasses a range of services performed with a drilling rig, mobile well servicing rig and ancillary equipment. The fluid services segment provides oilfield fluid supply, transportation and storage services. The completion and remedial services segment provides oil and gas operators with a package of services including pressure pumping services, rental and fishing tools, cased-hole wireline services and underbalanced drilling in low pressure and fluid sensitive reservoirs. The well site construction services segment employs an array of equipment and assets to provide services for the construction and maintenance of oil and gas production infrastructure.

• ATK, ALLIANT TECH SYS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 6.006081

Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) is a supplier of aerospace and defense products to the United States government, allied nations, and prime contractors. It is also a major supplier of ammunition and related accessories to law enforcement agencies and commercial customers. As of March 31, 2008, the Company had three segments: ATK Armament Systems (formerly ATK Ammunition Systems), ATK Launch Systems and ATK Mission Systems. Effective April 1, 2008, ATK realigned its business operations. As a result of this realignment, ATK Mission Systems was divided into ATK Mission Systems and ATK Space Systems. ATK also renamed ATK Ammunition Systems to ATK Armament Systems. Subsequent to this realignment, ATK has four segments: ATK Armament Systems, ATK Launch Systems, ATK Mission Systems, and ATK Space Systems. ATK acquired Swales Aerospace in June 2007.

• BCR, BARD C R INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 345.886597

C. R. Bard, Inc. (Bard) is engaged in the designing, manufacturing, packaging, distribution and sale of medical, surgical, diagnostic and patient care devices. The Company sells a range of products worldwide to hospitals, individual healthcare professionals, extended care facilities and alternate site facilities. In general, the Company?s products are intended to be used once and then discarded or implanted either temporarily or permanently. Bard has four major product group categories: vascular, urology, oncology and surgical specialties. The Company has a 50% ownership in Medicon, Inc. (Medicon), a Japanese joint venture with Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. In January 2008, Bard acquired the LifeStent family of stents from Edwards Lifesciences Corporation. These stents are available in the United States for biliary indications only. In June 2008, Specialized Health Products International Inc. completed its merger into a wholly owned subsidiary of Bard.

• 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 (GSM) network. As of April 1, 2008, Turkcell provided service to its subscribers in 197 countries through commercial roaming agreements with 576 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, 2007, Turkcell had approximately 29 million pre-paid subscribers and 6.4 million postpaid subscribers. The Company has investments in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova and the Ukraine.

• AME, AMETEK INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 14.285336

AMETEK, Inc. (AMETEK) is a 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 engineered electromechanical connectors for hermetic (moisture-proof) applications, specialty metals for niche markets, and brushless air-moving motors, blowers, and heat exchangers. In April 2008, the Company acquired Reading Alloys. In June 2008, the Company announced the acquisition of Vision Research, Inc. In August 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of the programmable power business of Xantrex Technology, Inc.

• OLN, OLIN CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 16.668947

Olin Corporation is a manufacturer concentrated in two business segments, including Chlor Alkali Products and Winchester. The Chlor Alkali Products manufactures and sells chlorine and caustic soda, sodium hydrosulfite, hydrochloric acid, hydrogen, sodium chlorate, bleach products and potassium hydroxide. Winchester products include sporting ammunition, reloading components, small caliber military ammunition and components, and industrial cartridges. On August 31, 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of Pioneer Companies, Inc. (Pioneer). The Company?s subsidiary, PCI Chemicals Canada Company/Societe PCI Chimie Canada, operating two chlor alkali facilities, Becancour and Dalhousie sells chlor alkali-related products within Canada and to the United States. The Company?s subsidiary, The Winchester Australia Limited loads and packs sporting and industrial ammunition in Australia.

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

The Navigators Group, Inc. (Navigators Group) 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 company subsidiaries (Insurance Companies) and its operations at Lloyd’s of London (Lloyd’s Operations). The Insurance Companies consist of Navigators Insurance Company, which includes a United Kingdom 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. and Lloyd?s of London underwriting agency.

• MSB, MESABI TRUST CTF Current Caprock Strength Rating: 143.796799

Mesabi Trust (Trust) was established to conserve and protect the Trust Estate and to collect and distribute the income and proceeds there from to the Trust?s certificate holders after. The Agreement of Trust prohibits the Trust from engaging in any business. The lessee/operator of Mesabi Trust?s mineral interests is Northshore Mining Corporation (NMC), a subsidiary of Cleveland-Cliffs Inc (CCI). The Trust owns two different interests in certain properties in the Mesabi Iron Range: Mesabi Trust?s interest as assignor in the Amended Assignment of Peters Lease and the Amended Assignment of Cloquet Lease, which together cover properties aggregating approximately 9,750 largely contiguous acres in St. Louis County, Minnesota, and Mesabi Trust?s ownership of the entire beneficial interest in the Mesabi Land Trust, which has a 20% interest as fee owner in the Peters Lease Lands and a 100% fee ownership in certain non-mineral-bearing lands adjacent to the Peters and Cloquet Lease Lands.

• HGT, HUGOTON ROYALTY T Current Caprock Strength Rating: 45.132065

Hugoton Royalty Trust (the Trust) is an express trust created under the laws of Texas pursuant to the Hugoton Royalty Trust Indenture entered into on December 1, 1998 between XTO Energy Inc., as grantor, and NationsBank, N.A., as trustee. Bank of America, N.A. succeeded NationsBank as the trustee of the Trust. Effective December 1, 1998, XTO Energy conveyed to the Trust 80% net profits interests in certain natural gas producing working interest properties in Kansas, Oklahoma and Wyoming under three separate conveyances. In exchange for these net profits interest conveyances to the Trust, 40 million units of beneficial interest were issued to XTO Energy. In May 2006, XTO Energy distributed all of its remaining 21.7 million trust units. As of December 31, 2006, XTO Energy is not a unitholder of the trust. The net profits interests entitle the Trust to receive 80% of the net proceeds from the sale of oil and gas from the underlying properties.

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• BG, BUNGE LTD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 295.490662

Bunge Limited (Bunge) is an agribusiness and food company operating in the farm-to-consumer food chain. The Company conducts its operations through three divisions: agribusiness, fertilizer and food products. These divisions include four segments: agribusiness, fertilizer, edible oil products and milling products. The agribusiness division is involved in the purchase, storage, transport, processing and sale of agricultural commodities and commodity products. The fertilizer division provides farmers with a range of products and services, including crop nutrients, and sells raw materials to other fertilizer manufacturers and animal nutrients to livestock producers. The food products division consists of two business segments: edible oil products, such as edible oils, shortenings, margarines and mayonnaise, and milling products, such as wheat flours and corn products. The Company has over 450 facilities in 32 countries and is headquartered in New York, the United States.

• 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. 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., an underground locating and marking subsidiary, to an affiliate of Kohlberg & Company.

• FFIN, FIRST FINL BKSHS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 39.325367

First Financial Bankshares, Inc. is a financial holding company. The Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, First Financial Bankshares of Delaware, Inc., owns 10 banks, a trust company and a technology operating company. These subsidiaries are First Financial Bank, National Association, Abilene, Texas; First Technology Services, Inc., Abilene, Texas; First Financial Trust & Asset Management Company, National Association, Abilene, Texas; Hereford State Bank, Hereford, Texas; First Financial Bank, National Association, Sweetwater, Texas; First Financial Bank, National Association, Eastland, Texas; First Financial Bank, National Association, Cleburne, Texas; First Financial Bank, National Association, Stephenville, Texas; San Angelo National Bank, San Angelo, Texas; Weatherford National Bank, Weatherford, Texas; First Financial Bank, National Association, Southlake, Texas, and First Financial Bank, National Association, Mineral Wells, Texas.

• 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 February 2, 2008, the Company operated 340 Dick?s Sporting Goods stores in 36 states, 79 Golf Galaxy stores in 29 states and 15 Chick?s Sporting Goods stores in California. Dick?s carry a variety of well-known brands, including Nike, North Face, Columbia, Adidas, TaylorMade, Callaway and Under Armour, as well as private label products, which are available only in its stores. On February 13, 2007, the Company acquired Golf Galaxy, Inc. (Golf Galaxy) by means of merger of its wholly owned subsidiary with and into Golf Galaxy. On November 30, 2007, the Company acquired all of the outstanding stock of Chick?s Sporting Goods, Inc. (Chick?s).

• BLK, BLACKROCK INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 63.483006

BlackRock, Inc. (BlackRock) operates as an investment management firm in the United States. As of December 31, 2007, the Company had $1.357 trillion of assets under management (AUM). BlackRock provides diversified investment management services to institutional clients and to individual investors through various investment vehicles. Its investment management services primarily consist of the active management of fixed income, cash management and equity client accounts; the management of a number of open-end and closed-end mutual fund families, and other non-United States equivalent retail products serving the institutional and retail markets, and the management of alternative funds developed to serve various customer needs. In addition, BlackRock provides risk management, investment system outsourcing, financial advisory and transition management services to institutional investors under the BlackRock Solutions name.

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

The Navigators Group, Inc. (Navigators Group) 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 company subsidiaries (Insurance Companies) and its operations at Lloyd’s of London (Lloyd’s Operations). The Insurance Companies consist of Navigators Insurance Company, which includes a United Kingdom 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. and Lloyd?s of London underwriting agency.

• MOH, MOLINA HEALTHCARE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 13.734159

Molina Healthcare, Inc. (Molina Healthcare) is a multi-state managed care organization participating exclusively in government-sponsored health care programs for low-income persons, such as the Medicaid program and the State Children?s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The Company also serves a small number of members who are dually eligible under both the Medicaid and Medicare programs. Molina Healthcare conducts its business primarily through nine licensed health plans in the states of California, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, Utah and Washington. The health plans are locally operated by the Company?s respective wholly owned subsidiaries in those nine states, each of which is licensed as a health maintenance organization (HMO). In November 2007, the Company acquired Mercy CarePlus, a Medicaid managed care organization based in St. Louis, Missouri.

• FFIC, FLUSHING FIN CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 64.347054

Flushing Financial Corporation serves as the holding company for Flushing Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank owns four subsidiaries: Flushing Commercial Bank, Flushing Preferred Funding Corporation, Flushing Service Corporation and FSB Properties Inc. The Company also owns Flushing Financial Capital Trust II, Flushing Financial Capital Trust III and Flushing Financial Capital Trust IV (the Trusts), special purpose business trusts formed, during the year ended December 31, 2007, to issue capital securities. The Trusts used the proceeds from the issuance of these capital securities, and the proceeds from the issuance of their common stock, to purchase junior subordinated debentures from the Company. As of December 31, 2007, the Bank operated out of its main office and 13 branch offices, located in the New York City Boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, and in Nassau County, New York. The Bank also operates an Internet branch, iGObanking.com.

• CVS, CVS CAREMARK CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 104.376015

CVS Caremark Corporation (CVS Caremark) is a provider of prescriptions and related healthcare services in the United States. The Company fills or manages more than one billion prescriptions annually. As a fully integrated pharmacy services company, CVS Caremark drives value for its customers by managing pharmaceutical costs and improving healthcare outcomes through its approximately 6,200 CVS/pharmacy retail stores; CVS Caremark?s pharmacy benefit management, mail order and specialty pharmacy division, Caremark Pharmacy Services; its retail-based health clinic subsidiary, MinuteClinic, and the Company?s online pharmacy, CVS.com. Effective March 22, 2007, the Company closed its merger with Caremark Rx, Inc. (Caremark). Following the Caremark Merger, the Company changed its name to CVS Caremark Corporation. CVS Caremark operates two business segments: Retail Pharmacy and Pharmacy Services.

• 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; Argentina, Buenos Aires and surrounding areas, and Brazil, the area of greater Sao Paulo, Campinas, Santos, the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and part of the state of Goias. On May 30, 2008, the Company entered into a purchase agreement with The Coca-Cola Company to acquire its wholly owned bottling franchise located in the state of Minas Gerais (Refrigerantes Minas Gerais Ltda., or REMIL) in Brazil. On December 21, 2007, and on May 30, 2008, it sold to The Coca-Cola Company most of its brands.

• DSM, DREYFUS STRA MUNI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 0.445373

Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. (the fund) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The fund?s investment objective is to maximize current income exempt from federal income tax to the extent consistent with the preservation of capital. The Dreyfus Corporation serves as the fund?s investment adviser.

• 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, 2007, the Company owned 202 properties located in 32 states. Senior apartments are marketed to residents, who are capable of caring for themselves. Residence is usually restricted on the basis of age. Independent living properties, or congregate care communities, also provide privacy to residents and require residents to be independent. Assisted living properties have one bedroom units, which include private bathrooms and efficiency kitchens. Services bundled within one charge usually include three meals per day in a central dining room, daily housekeeping, laundry, medical reminders and 24-hour availability of assistance with the activities of daily living, such as dressing and bathing. Professional nursing and healthcare services are available at the property on call or at regularly scheduled times.

• WMB, WILLIAMS COS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 35.454456

The Williams Companies, Inc. (Williams) is a natural gas company. The Company primarily finds, produces, gathers, processes and transports natural gas. Its operations are concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountains, Gulf Coast and the Eastern Seaboard. Its activities are primarily operated through business segments, which include Exploration & Production, Gas Pipeline, Midstream Gas & Liquids, and Gas Marketing Services. Exploration & Production produces, develops and manages natural gas reserves primarily located in the Rocky Mountain and Mid-Continent regions of the United States. Gas Pipeline includes interstate natural gas pipelines and pipeline joint venture investments. Midstream Gas & Liquids includes natural gas gathering, treating and processing business. Gas Marketing Services manage its natural gas commodity risk. Other primarily consists of corporate operations. Other also includes the Company?s interest in Longhorn Partners Pipeline, L.P.

• CLF, CLEVELAND CLIFFS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 237.817490

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc is an international mining company, a producer of iron ore pellets in North America and a supplier of metallurgical coal to the global steelmaking industry. The Company operates six iron ore mines in Michigan, Minnesota and Eastern Canada, and three coking coal mines in West Virginia and Alabama. Cliffs also owns 80.4% of Portman, an iron ore mining company in Australia, serving the Asian iron ore markets with direct-shipping fines and lump ore. In addition, the Company has a 30% interest in the Amapa Project, a Brazilian iron ore project, and a 45% economic interest in the Sonoma Project, an Australian coking and thermal coal project. It is organized into three business segments: North America Iron Ore, North American Coal and Asia-Pacific Iron Ore. In July 2008, the Company acquired the remaining 30% interest in United Taconite (UTAC), an iron ore mining and pelletizing operation located in Eveleth, Minnesota, from United Mining Co. Ltd.

• PGJ, POWERSHARES ETF Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.395359
• XTXI, CROSSTEX ENERGY I Current Caprock Strength Rating: 60.320435

Crosstex Energy, Inc. was established to engage in the gathering, transmission, treating, processing and marketing of natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs) through its subsidiaries. The Company?s assets consist almost of partnership interests in Crosstex Energy, L.P. (CELP), which is engaged in the gathering, transmission, treating, processing and marketing of natural gas and NGLs. These partnership interests consist of 16,414,830 common units representing an aggregate 36% limited partner interest in CELP, and 100% ownership interest in Crosstex Energy GP, L.P., the general partner of CELP, which owns a 2% general partner interest and all of the incentive distribution rights in CELP. CELP is an independent midstream energy company engaged in the gathering, transmission, treating, processing and marketing of natural gas and NGLs. CELP has two operating segments: Midstream and Treating.

• WEC, WISCONSIN ENERGY Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1.740028

Wisconsin Energy Corporation is a diversified holding company. The Company conducts its operations primarily in two operating segments: a utility energy segment and a non-utility energy segment. Its primary subsidiaries include Wisconsin Electric Power Company (Wisconsin Electric), Wisconsin Gas LLC (Wisconsin Gas), Edison Sault Electric Company (Edison Sault) and W.E. Power, LLC (We Power). The Company?s utility energy segment consists of Wisconsin Electric, Wisconsin Gas and Edison Sault. Its non-utility energy segment consists primarily of We Power. On September 28, 2007, Wisconsin Electric sold Point Beach, a nuclear generation facility, to an affiliate of FPL Group, Inc.

• DSM, DREYFUS STRA MUNI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 0.445373

Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. (the fund) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The fund?s investment objective is to maximize current income exempt from federal income tax to the extent consistent with the preservation of capital. The Dreyfus Corporation serves as the fund?s investment adviser.

• KND, KINDRED HEALTHCAR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 8.169164

Kindred Healthcare, Inc. is a healthcare services company that through its subsidiaries operates hospitals, nursing centers and a contract rehabilitation services business across the United States. As of December 31, 2007, the Company’s hospital division operated 84 long-term acute care (LTAC) hospitals (6,567 licensed beds) in 24 states. Kindred Healthcare’s health services division operated 228 nursing centers (29,106 licensed beds) in 27 states. The Company also operated a contract rehabilitation services business that provides rehabilitative services primarily in long-term care settings. Kindred Healthcare is organized into three operating divisions: the hospital division, the health services division and the rehabilitation division. The hospital division operates LTAC hospitals. The health services division operates nursing centers. The rehabilitation division provides rehabilitation services primarily in long-term care settings.

• WWE, WORLD WRESTLING E Current Caprock Strength Rating: 67.328812

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) is an integrated media and entertainment company. The Company develops creative content centered on its talent and presented at its live and televised events. Its three brands include Raw, SmackDown and ECW. The Company operates through four segments: Live and Televised Entertainment, Consumer Products, Digital Media and WWE Films.

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

International Game Technology (IGT) is a global company specializing in the design, manufacture and marketing of computerized gaming equipment, network systems, licensing and services. The Company derives its revenue from the distribution of electronic gaming equipment and network systems, related services and licensing of intellectual property (IP). IGT operates in two segments: North America and International. North America includes the Company’s operations in the United States and Canada. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007 (fiscal 2007), North America comprised 77% of IGT’s consolidated revenues. International encompasses all other IGT operations worldwide, comprising 23% of consolidated revenues in fiscal 2007. In June 2007, the Company acquired Digideal Corporation.

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

Walter Industries, Inc., through its operating segments offers a line of products and services, including coal and natural gas, furnace and foundry coke and slag fiber, mortgage financing, and home construction. The segments of the Company include Natural Resources, Sloss, Financing, Homebuilding and Other. The Natural Resources segment consists of Jim Walter Resources, Inc. (JWR), Tuscaloosa Resources, Inc. (TRI), Kodiak Mining Company, LLC (Kodiak) and United Land Corporation (United Land). Sloss is a manufacturer of furnace and foundry coke and slag fiber. The Financing segment, which includes Walter Mortgage Company (WMC), originates, purchases, services and securitizes non-conforming instalment notes and loans that are secured by mortgages and liens. The Homebuilding segment includes Jim Walter Homes, Inc. (JWH), which is an on-your-lot homebuilder. The Other segment includes the Company’s other land subsidiaries and corporate expenses.

• AEM, AGNICO EAGLE MINE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 290.837463

Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited (Agnico-Eagle) is a gold producer with mining operations located in northwestern Quebec, mine construction projects in northwestern Quebec, northern Finland, Nunavut and northern Mexico and exploration activities in Canada, Finland, Mexico and the United States. The Company operates through four regional units: the Quebec Region, the European Region, the Mexican Region and the Nunavut Region. The Quebec region includes the LaRonde Mine, the LaRonde Mine extension project and the Goldex and Lapa mine projects, each of which is held directly by the Company. The Company’s operations in the European Region are conducted through its indirect subsidiary, Riddarhyttan Resources AB (Riddarhyttan), which indirectly owns the Kittila mine project in Finland. The Company’s operations in the Mexican Region are conducted through its subsidiary, Agnico Eagle Mexico S.A. de C.V., which owns the Pinos Altos mine project.

• SMA, SYMMETRY MEDICAL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 37.797249

Symmetry Medical Inc. (Symmetry) is an independent provider of implants and related instruments and cases to global orthopedic device manufacturers. The Company designs, develops and produces these products for companies in other segments of the medical device market, including the dental, osteobiologic and endoscopy segments, and it also provides limited specialized products to non-healthcare markets, such as the aerospace market. Its Total Solutions approach presents its customers with a range of products, as well as design, engineering and project management services and production capabilities to help them bring their implant systems to market efficiently. During the fiscal year ended December 29, 2007 (fiscal 2007), its revenue was derived primarily from the sale of products to the orthopedic device market and other medical markets. On January 25, 2008, the Company acquired DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.’s New Bedford, Massachusetts instrument manufacturing facility (New Bedford).

• VAR, VARIAN MED SYS IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 49.595242

Varian Medical Systems, Inc., formerly Varian Associates, Inc., is engaged in designing, manufacturing, selling and servicing X-ray tubes for original equipment manufacturers (OEM); replacement X-ray tubes; flat panel digital image detectors for filmless X-rays used in medical, dental, veterinary, scientific and industrial applications; linear accelerators, image detectors, image processing software and image detection systems for security and inspection purposes; proton therapy systems for cancer treatment; and scientific instruments used in fundamental and applied physics research. The segments in which the Company operates include Oncology Systems, X-Ray Products and Others. During the fiscal year ended September 28, 2007 (fiscal 2007), Oncology Systems contributed 81% of the total revenues. In fiscal 2007, X-ray Products and Others represented 15% and 4% of total revenues. In January 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of ACCEL Instruments GmbH.

• BKE, BUCKLE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 75.173958

The Buckle, Inc. is a retailer of medium to better-priced casual apparel, footwear and accessories for fashion conscious young men and women. As of February 2, 2008, the Company operated 368 retail stores in 38 states throughout the continental United States, excluding the northeast, under the names Buckle and The Buckle. The Company markets a selection of mostly brand name casual apparel, including denims, other casual bottoms, tops, sportswear, outerwear, accessories and footwear. The Company provides customer services, such as free hemming, free gift-wrapping, easy layaways, the Buckle private label credit card and a frequent shopper program. Most stores are located in regional shopping malls and lifestyle centers. The Company had 368 stores at February 2, 2008.

• NQU, NUVEEN QUAL MUNI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 10.661982

Nuveen Quality Income Municipal Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a closed-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to provide current income exempt from regular federal income tax by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of municipal obligations issued by state and local government authorities or certain United States territories. The Fund invests substantially all of its assets in a diversified portfolio of tax-exempt municipal obligations rated within the four highest grades, except that up to 20% of the Fund’s assets may be invested in unrated municipal obligations deemed to be of comparable quality. The Fund’s portfolio includes sectors, such as United States guaranteed securities, transportation, tax obligation securities, utilities, healthcare, consumer staples and other. Nuveen Asset Management (NAM) is the Funds’ investment manager.

• BKN, BLACKROCK INV MUN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 34.977795

BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust, Inc. (the Trust) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Trust’s investment objective is to provide current income exempt from regular federal income tax. BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust, Inc. invests in various sectors, including hospitals, power, education, transportation, housing, water and sewer, tobacco, and industrial and pollution control. The Trust’s investment advisor is BlackRock Advisors, Inc. and its sub-advisor is BlackRock Financial Management, Inc., both of which are wholly owned subsidiaries of BlackRock, Inc.

• 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 provides the animal research models required in research and development for 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 60 facilities, including its production and warehousing facilities, in 15 countries worldwide. The Company has two segments: Research Models and Services (RMS) and Preclinical Services (PCS), which includes Phase I clinical services. On January 4, 2007, the Company acquired the remaining 15% of Charles River Laboratories Japan, Inc.

• 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.

• 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, the United Kingdom and the United States. Its commercial teams promote Truvada, Viread, Emtriva, Hepsera, AmBisome, Letairis and Flolan through direct field contact with physicians, hospitals, clinics and other healthcare providers. Its corporate partner, Astellas Pharma, Inc. (Astellas), promotes, sells and distributes AmBisome in the United States.In September 2007, it acquired Nycomed Limited, a wholly owned Irish subsidiary of Germany-based pharmaceutical company, Nycomed GmbH.

• 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.

• FCX, FREEPORT MCMORAN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 2.827534

Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, Phelps Dodge, and its majority-owned subsidiary, PT Freeport Indonesia, is a copper, gold and molybdenum mining company. In North America, the Company has six operating copper mines: Morenci, Bagdad, Sierrita and Safford in Arizona, and Chino and Tyrone in New Mexico, as well as one operating molybdenum mine: Henderson in Colorado. In South America, the Company has four operating copper mines: Cerro Verde in Peru, and Candelaria, Ojos del Salado and El Abra in Chile. The Company owns a 53.56% interest in Cerro Verde, an 80% interest in both Candelaria and Ojos del Salado and a 5% interest in El Abra. It owns 90.64% of PT Freeport Indonesia, including 9.36% owned through its wholly owned subsidiary, PT Indocopper Investama. The Company also operates Atlantic Copper S.A. (Atlantic Copper). Atlantic Copper?s operations involve the smelting and refining of copper concentrates.

• XEC, CIMAREX ENERGY CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 83.668793

Cimarex Energy Co. is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. The Company’s operations are mainly located in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, Louisiana and Wyoming. Proved oil and gas reserves as of December 31, 2007, totaled nearly 1.5 trillion cubic feet equivalent (Tcfe), consisting of 1.1 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of gas and 58.3 million barrels of oil and natural gas liquids. Of total proved reserves, 76% are gas and 79% are classified as proved developed. The Company operates the wells that account for 82% of its total proved reserves and approximately 79% of production. The Company?s operations are focused in the Mid-Continent region, which consists of Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle and southwest Kansas; the Permian Basin region of west Texas and southeast New Mexico, and the Gulf Coast areas of Texas, south Louisiana, and offshore Louisiana. It also has operations in Michigan and Wyoming.

• ENH, ENDURANCE SPLTY H Current Caprock Strength Rating: 42.870548

Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. (Endurance Holdings) is a holding company. Through its operating subsidiaries based in Bermuda, the United Kingdom and the United States, the Company underwrites specialty lines of personal and commercial property, and casualty insurance and reinsurance on a global basis. Endurance Holdings’ portfolio of specialty lines of business is organized into two segments: Insurance and Reinsurance. Endurance Holdings? seven wholly owned operating subsidiaries are: Endurance Bermuda, Endurance Worldwide Insurance Limited (Endurance U.K.), Endurance Reinsurance Corporation of America (Endurance U.S. Reinsurance), American Agri-Business Insurance Company, Endurance American Insurance Company (Endurance American), Endurance American Specialty Insurance Company (Endurance American Specialty) and American Merchants Casualty Company (American Merchants). In December 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of ARMtech Insurance Services, Inc. and its affiliates.

• XRTX, XYRATEX LTD. Current Caprock Strength Rating: 7.393254

Xyratex Limited (Xyratex) is a provider of modular enterprise-class data storage solutions and storage process technology. The Company designs, develops and manufactures enabling technology that provides the customers with data storage products to support high-performance storage and data communication networks. The segments of the Company include Networked Storage Solutions (NSS) and Storage Infrastructure (SI). The NSS products provide modular, highly scalable, high-speed, high-density, reliable and flexible data storage. The SI products include disk drive production test systems, process automation for disk drive and solar panel manufacturing, servo track writers and disk cleaning systems. Xyratex sells its NSS products to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and SI products to disk drive manufacturers or their component suppliers.

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

Partner Communications Company Ltd (Partner) is an Israeli mobile communications operator providing global system for mobile (GSM)/ general packet radio service (GPRS) network and the universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS)/ high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) services and wire free applications under the orange brand. As of December 3, 2007, the Company provided services and a range of features to 2.86 million subscribers in Israel. The Company uses its GSM to provide its customers roaming in 173 countries worldwide, using over 369 networks. It also provides roaming services to thousands of customers roaming on its network in Israel daily. As of December 31, 2007, the Company had more than 633,000 third generation (3G) subscribers. The Company offers 3G roaming services with dozens of networks throughout the world. Partner is a subsidiary of Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited, a global provider of telecommunications services.

• BMC, B M C SOFTWARE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 56.533241

BMC Software, Inc. is a software vendor. The Company provides system and service management solutions primarily for large enterprises. Its portfolio of software solutions spans enterprise systems, applications, databases and information technology (IT) process management. BMC Software also provides maintenance and support for its products and performs software implementation, integration and education services for its customers. The Company is organized into two software business segments: Enterprise Service Management (ESM) and Mainframe Service Management (MSM). In addition, its third segment consists of its Professional Services (PS) organization. In October 2007, the Company acquired Emprisa Networks, Inc. (Emprisa), a provider of network configuration automation software. In April 2008, BMC Software completed the acquisition of BladeLogic, Inc. (BladeLogic), a provider of data center automation software. In June 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of ITM Software.

• BNI, BURLINGTN N SANTE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 7.647608

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF), through its subsidiaries, is engaged primarily in the freight rail transportation business. BNSF transports a range of products and commodities derived from manufacturing, agricultural and natural resource industries. Its freight business consists of consumer products, industrial products, coal and agricultural products. The Consumer Products? consists of three business areas: international intermodal, domestic intermodal and automotive. Industrial Products? consists of five business areas: building products, construction products, petroleum products, chemicals and plastics products, and food and beverages. The Agricultural Products? freight business transports agricultural products, including corn, wheat, soybeans, bulk foods and fertilizer. As of December 31, 2007, BNSF Railway operated over a railroad system consisting of approximately 32,000 route miles of track, approximately 23,000 miles, of which are owned route miles.

• ACL, ALCON INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 16.471506

Alcon, Inc. (Alcon) is a research and development driven, global medical specialty company focused on eye care. The Company develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceuticals, surgical equipment and devices and consumer eye care products to treat diseases and disorders of the eye. Alcon manages its business through two segments: Alcon United States and Alcon International. Its portfolio spans three key ophthalmic categories: pharmaceutical, surgical and consumer eye care products. In its pharmaceutical category Alcon develops, manufactures and markets a range of prescription ophthalmic pharmaceutical products. Alcon offers a range of surgical equipment, single-use and disposable products. The Company markets contact lens care products, artificial tears and ocular vitamins, in its consumer eye care products category. In July 2008, Novartis AG acquired a 25% stake in Alcon from Nestle SA.