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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• NFG, NATL FUEL GAS CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 82.851707

National Fuel Gas Company is a holding company. The Company is a diversified energy company consisting of five business segments. The Utility segment contributed approximately 25.2% of the Company?s income during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007 (fiscal 2007). The Pipeline and Storage segment contributed approximately 28% of National Fuel Gas Company?s income during the fiscal 2007. The Exploration and Production segment contributed approximately 37.1% of the Company?s income in fiscal 2007. The Energy Marketing segment contributed approximately 3.8% of the Company?s income during the fiscal 2007. The Timber segment contributed approximately 1.9% of National Fuel Gas Company?s income in fiscal 2007. In August 2007, Seneca Resources Corporation (Seneca) sold all of the issued and outstanding shares of Seneca Energy Canada Inc. (SECI).

• CHCO, CITY HOLDING CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 101.882088

City Holding Company is a bank holding company. It conducts its principal activities through its wholly owned subsidiary, City National Bank of West Virginia (City National). Through its network of 69 banking offices in West Virginia (58 offices), Kentucky (nine offices), and Ohio (two offices), City National provides credit, deposit, trust and investment management, and insurance products and services to its customers. Its business activities are limited to one reportable business segment, which is community banking. The West Virginia locations are primarily cantered in the Charleston, Huntington, Beckley, and Martinsburg markets. City National owns 50 locations and leases 19 locations, pursuant to operating leases. City National?s delivery channels include automated teller machines (ATMs), check cards, interactive voice response systems, and Internet technology. As of December 31, 2007, 53% of its loan portfolio was categorized as residential mortgage and and home equity loans.

• 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.

• ZTR, ZWEIG TOTL RETURN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 21.609512

The Zweig Total Return Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a closed-end, diversified management investment company. The Fund’s objective is to seek the highest total return, consisting of capital appreciation and current income, consistent with the preservation of capital. The Fund?s equity sectors included information technology (IT), energy, industrials, consumer staples, and financials. The Fund’s top individual equity positions, as on December 31, 2007, included Allstate, Altria Group, AT&T, ConocoPhillips, Freeport McMoRan, McDonalds, Merck, Occidental Petroleum, PepsiCo and Verizon. The Fund?s investment advisor is Phoenix/Zweig Advisers LLC (the Adviser).

• 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.

• DMND, DIAMOND FOODS IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 15.694626

Diamond Foods, Inc. (Diamond) is a branded food company specializing in processing, marketing and distributing culinary, in-shell and ingredient nuts and snack products. The Company?s products are sold in over 60,000 retail locations in the United States and in over 100 countries. Diamond offers all of its products in an array of packages to meet different market needs. The Company?s snack nut products are sold in various on-the-go package styles, including resealable foil bags and resealable plastic containers. Diamond also offers snack products in 20-ounce to 40-ounce polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers and bags for the club channel. The Company offers its microwave popcorn products in various package sizes, including 100-calorie snack size. It has four product lines: culinary; snack; in-shell, and ingredient/food service. Sales to Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. accounted for approximately 22% of its net sales during the fiscal year ended July 31, 2008 (fiscal 2008).

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• FORR, FORRESTER RESRCH Current Caprock Strength Rating: 25.737383

Forrester Research, Inc. offers products and services in four major areas: research, data, consulting, and community. The Company?s products and services are targeted to specific roles, including principally senior management, business strategists, and marketing and technology professionals. In July 2008, Forrester Research, Inc. acquired JupiterResearch, LLC, and its parent company, JUPR Holdings, Inc., from MCG Capital Corporation.

• 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.

• 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.

• AGN, ALLERGAN INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 34.217606

Allergan, Inc. is a multi-specialty healthcare company focused on developing and commercializing pharmaceuticals, biologics and medical devices. The Company discovers, develops and commercializes specialty pharmaceutical, medical device and over-the-counter products for the ophthalmic, neurological, medical aesthetics, medical dermatological, breast aesthetics, obesity intervention, urological, and other specialty markets in more than 100 countries around the world. In January 2007, Allergan, Inc. acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Groupe Corneal Laboratoires (Corneal), a healthcare company that develops, manufactures and markets dermal fillers, viscoelastics, and a range of ophthalmic surgical device products. In October 2007, the Company acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Esprit Pharma Holding Company, Inc. (Esprit). Allergan, Inc. operates in two business segments: specialty pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

• 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.

• LLL, L-3 COMM HLDGS IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 29.196558

L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. (L-3) is a prime system contractor in aircraft modernization and maintenance (AM&M), command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems, and government services. L-3 is also a provider of technology products, subsystems and systems. The Company?s customers include the United States Department of Defense and its prime contractors, United States Government intelligence agencies, the Unites States Department of Homeland Security, Unites States Department of State, United States Department of Justice, allied foreign governments, commercial customers and select other United States federal, state and local government agencies. The Company operates in four segments: C3ISR, Government Services, Aircraft Modernization and Maintenance, and Marine and Power Systems Group. In March 2008, the Company announced a strategic realignment of businesses in its Specialized Products segment to form the Marine and Power Systems Group.

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

Plains Exploration & Production Company (PXP) is an independent oil and gas company primarily engaged in the activities of acquiring, developing, exploring and producing oil and gas properties primarily in the United States. The Company owns oil and gas properties with principal operations in the Los Angeles and San Joaquin Basins onshore California; the Santa Maria Basin offshore California; the Piceance and Wind River Basins in the Rocky Mountains; the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico; the Anadarko Basin in the Texas Panhandle, and the South Texas and Gulf Coast regions, including the Gulf of Mexico. During the three-year period ended December 31, 2007, PXP participated in 76 exploratory wells, of which 54 were successful, and 625 development wells, 615 of which were successful. On February 29, 2008, it closed the sale of certain oil and gas properties to a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation and certain other companies.

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.

• INFA, INFORMATICA CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 84.239273

Informatica Corporation (Informatica) is a provider of enterprise data integration, and data quality software and services. Informatica software handles a variety of complex enterprise-wide data integration initiatives, including data migration, data consolidation, data synchronization, data warehousing, establishment of data hubs, data services, cross-enterprise data exchange, and data quality. The Informatica enterprise data integration platform enables and accelerates data integration initiatives, allowing enterprises to meet new business requirements by utilizing cost-effective information technology (IT) systems; to reduce overall IT expenses by extending and adapting IT systems. The Company has also introduced solutions with partners designed to meet the on-demand data needs of the software-as-a-service market. In May 2008, Informatica completed the acquisition of Identity Systems, from Nokia Corporation.

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

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Wal-Mart) operates retail stores in various formats around the world. The Company earns the trust of its customers every day by providing an assortment of merchandise and services at every day low prices (EDLP), while fostering a culture that rewards and embraces mutual respect, integrity and diversity. Wal-Mart?s operations comprise three business segments: Wal-Mart Stores, Sam?s Club and International. Its Wal-Mart Stores segment is the largest segment of the Company?s business, accounting for 64% of its net sales, during the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008 (fiscal 2008), and operates stores in three different formats in the United States, as well as Wal-Mart?s online retail operations, walmart.com. Its Sam?s Club segment consists of membership warehouse clubs in the United States and the segment?s online retail operations, samsclub.com. Sam?s Club accounted for 11.8% of the Company?s net sales during fiscal 2008.

• 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.

• RBA, RITCHIE BROS AUCT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 174.723129

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated (Ritchie Bros.) is an auctioneer of industrial equipment. As of December 31, 2007, it operated from over 110 locations, including 37 auction sites, in more than 27 countries worldwide. It sells, through unreserved public auctions, a range of industrial assets, including equipment, trucks and other assets used in the construction, transportation, mining, forestry, petroleum, material handling, marine, real estate and agricultural industries. Its customers are both buyers and sellers of equipment, trucks and other industrial assets. The majority of its buyers are end users of equipment, such as contractors, with the remainder being primarily truck and equipment dealers and brokers. During the year ended December 31, 2007, it conducted 183 unreserved industrial auctions at locations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Australia and Asia. During 2007, it also conducted 177 unreserved agricultural auctions in Canada and the United States.

• NEM, NEWMONT MIN CP (H Current Caprock Strength Rating: 23.004967

Newmont Mining Corporation (Newmont) is primarily a gold producer with significant assets or operations in the United States, Australia, Peru, Indonesia, Ghana, Canada, Bolivia, New Zealand and Mexico. As of December 31, 2007, Newmont had proven and probable gold reserves of 86.5 million equity ounces and an aggregate land position of approximately 42,680 square miles (110,550 square kilometers). Newmont is also engaged in the production of copper, principally through its Batu Hijau operation in Indonesia. The Company has operating segments of Nevada, Yanacocha in Peru, Australia/New Zealand, Batu Hijau in Indonesia, Africa and Other Operations comprising smaller operations in Bolivia, Mexico and Canada. It also has a Merchant Banking Segment and an Exploration Segment. In March 2008, Newmont Mining B.C. Limited, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Newmont Mining Corporation, acquired the remaining interest in Miramar Mining Corporation.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• ASR, GRUPO AEROPORTUAR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 7.714497

Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A.B. de C.V. (ASUR) holds concessions to operate, maintain and develop nine airports in the southeast region of Mexico. As operator of these airports, the Company charges airlines, passengers and other users fees for the use of the airports? facilities. ASUR also derives rental and other income from commercial activities conducted at its airports, such as the leasing of space to restaurants and retailers. Its concessions include the concession for Cancun International Airport. ASUR also holds concessions to operate the airports in Cozumel, Huatulco, Merida, Minatitlan, Oaxaca, Tapachula, Veracruz and Villahermosa. During the year ended December 31, 2007, its airports served a total of 16.2 million passengers, approximately 55.8% of which were international passengers.

• SCHL, SCHOLASTIC CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 31.054762

Scholastic Corporation (Scholastic) is a global children?s publishing, education and media company. The Company is the publisher and distributor of children?s books and a developer of educational technology products. Scholastic also creates educational and entertainment materials and products for use in school and at home, including magazines, children?s reference and non-fiction materials, teacher materials, television programming, film, videos and toys. The Company is an operator of school-based book clubs and book fairs in the United States. It distributes its products and services through these channels, as well as directly to schools and libraries, through retail stores and the Internet. The Company?s Website, scholastic.com, is a site for teachers, classrooms and parents. The segments of the Company are Children?s Book Publishing and Distribution; Educational Publishing; Media, Licensing and Advertising, and International.

• NFG, NATL FUEL GAS CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 82.851707

National Fuel Gas Company is a holding company. The Company is a diversified energy company consisting of five business segments. The Utility segment contributed approximately 25.2% of the Company?s income during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007 (fiscal 2007). The Pipeline and Storage segment contributed approximately 28% of National Fuel Gas Company?s income during the fiscal 2007. The Exploration and Production segment contributed approximately 37.1% of the Company?s income in fiscal 2007. The Energy Marketing segment contributed approximately 3.8% of the Company?s income during the fiscal 2007. The Timber segment contributed approximately 1.9% of National Fuel Gas Company?s income in fiscal 2007. In August 2007, Seneca Resources Corporation (Seneca) sold all of the issued and outstanding shares of Seneca Energy Canada Inc. (SECI).

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

Bank Mutual Corporation serves as a unitary savings and loan holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary, Bank Mutual (the Bank), a federal savings bank. The Bank is a community-oriented financial institution. Its principal business is originating mortgage loans, consumer loans, commercial real estate loans, and commercial business loans and attracting retail deposits from the general public. It also invests in various mortgage-related securities and investment securities. The principal lending is on one-to four-family, owner-occupied homes, home equity loans and lines of credit, automobile loans, multi-family and commercial real estate loans, and commercial business loans. Its primary sources of funds are deposits, borrowings, scheduled amortization and prepayments of loan principal and mortgage-related securities, and maturities of investment securities and funds provided by operations. At February 29, 2008, the Bank had 77 banking offices located in 31 counties in Wisconsin.

• ADM, ARCHER DANIELS MD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 105.415352

Archer Daniels Midland Company is engaged in procuring, transporting, storing, processing, and merchandising agricultural commodities and products. The Company is a processor of oilseeds, corn, wheat, cocoa, and other feedstuffs, and is a manufacturer of soybean oil and protein meal, corn sweeteners, flour, biodiesel, ethanol, and other food and feed ingredients. The Company?s operations are classified into three business segments: Oilseeds Processing, Corn Processing and Agricultural Services. The Company?s remaining operations are aggregated and classified as Other. In August 2008, the French malting group Malteurop bought the malting division of Archer Daniels Midland Company. Malteurop is controlled by the French farm cooperative group Champagne Cereales and ADM Malting.

• 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.

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

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

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

Johnson & Johnson is engaged in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the healthcare field. Johnson & Johnson has more than 250 operating companies. The Company operates in three segments: Consumer, Pharmaceutical, and Medical Devices and Diagnostics. Sales of the Company’s two largest products, RISPERDAL and REMICADE, accounted for approximately 6% and 5% of Johnson & Johnson?s total revenues, respectively, during the fiscal year ended December 30, 2007 (fiscal 2007). During fiscal 2007, the Company acquired three companies: Conor Medsystems, Inc., which is a cardiovascular device company, with new drug delivery technology; Robert Reid, Inc., which is a Japanese orthopedic product distributor, and Maya?s Mom, Inc., which is a social media company.

• 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.

• CSX, C S X CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 20.526377

CSX Corporation (CSX) is a transportation company. Surface Transportation, which includes the Company?s rail and intermodal businesses, provides rail-based transportation services, including traditional rail service and the transport of intermodal containers and trailers. It operates in two business segments: rail and intermodal. The rail segment provides rail freight transportation over a network of approximately 21,000 route miles in 23 states, the District of Columbia, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The intermodal segment provides integrated rail and truck transportation services and operates a network of dedicated intermodal facilities across North America. CSX?s principal operating company, CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), provides a link to the transportation supply chain through its approximately 21,000 route mile rail network, which serves 23 states east of the Mississippi River, the District of Columbia, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

• USB, US BANCORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 44.086376

U.S. Bancorp and its subsidiaries is a multi-state financial services holding company. The Company provides financial services, including lending and depository services in 24 states. It provides credit card, merchant, and automated teller machine (ATM) processing, mortgage banking, insurance, trust and investment management, brokerage, and leasing activities in domestic markets. The Company?s segments include Wholesale Banking, Consumer Banking, Wealth Management & Securities Services, Payment Services, and Treasury and Corporate Support. The banking subsidiaries are engaged in the general banking business in domestic markets. The non-banking subsidiaries offer investment and insurance products to customers and mutual fund processing services to a range of mutual funds. In August 2008, Elavon, formerly NOVA Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, announced that it has acquired substantially all of the merchant processing portfolio of Capital City Bank.

• WIW, WESTERN/CLAYMR FD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 190.254791

Western Asset/Claymore Inflation-Linked Opportunities & Income Fund (the Fund), formerly Western Asset/Claymore U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Fund 2, is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s primary investment objective is to provide current income. Its secondary objective is capital appreciation. The Fund seeks to invest at least 80% of its total managed assets in inflation-linked securities. It will invest not more that 40% of its total managed assets in below investment-grade securities. It may invest up to 100% of its total managed assets in non-United States dollar investments. It may invest up to 20% of the portfolio in debt instruments of emerging markets issuers that are not inflation-linked securities. Reverse repurchase agreements and other forms of leverage will not exceed 38% of the Fund?s total managed assets. The Fund?s investment advisor is Claymore Advisors, LLC. Its investment manager is Western Asset Management Company.

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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.

• SFY, SWIFT ERGY (HLDG Current Caprock Strength Rating: 19.959139

Swift Energy Company is engaged in developing, exploring, acquiring, and operating oil and natural gas properties, with a focus on oil and natural gas reserves onshore and in the inland waters of Louisiana and Texas. As of December 31, 2007, the Company had estimated proved reserves from its domestic continuing operations of 133.8 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMBoe). Its total estimated proved reserves, both domestically and in New Zealand, were 150.1 MMBoe. Swift Energy Company?s total proved reserves during 2007, were comprised of approximately 43% crude oil, 44% natural gas, and 13% natural gas liquid (NGLs), and 45% of its total proved reserves were proved developed. Its proved reserves are concentrated with 59% of the total in Louisiana, 29% in Texas, 1% in other states, and 11% in New Zealand. In October 2007, Swift Energy Company completed the acquisition of property interests from Escondido Resources, LP, a privately held company.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• ZTR, ZWEIG TOTL RETURN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 21.609512

The Zweig Total Return Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a closed-end, diversified management investment company. The Fund’s objective is to seek the highest total return, consisting of capital appreciation and current income, consistent with the preservation of capital. The Fund?s equity sectors included information technology (IT), energy, industrials, consumer staples, and financials. The Fund’s top individual equity positions, as on December 31, 2007, included Allstate, Altria Group, AT&T, ConocoPhillips, Freeport McMoRan, McDonalds, Merck, Occidental Petroleum, PepsiCo and Verizon. The Fund?s investment advisor is Phoenix/Zweig Advisers LLC (the Adviser).

• 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).

• NOK, NOKIA CP ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 151.364532

Nokia Corporation (Nokia) is player in mobile industry. The Company makes a range of mobile devices with services and software that enable people to experience music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games, business mobility and more. Nokia also provides equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks. From January 1, 2004 through March 31, 2007, Nokia had four business groups: Mobile Phones, Multimedia, Enterprise Solutions and Networks, supported and serviced by two horizontal groups: Customer and Market Operations and Technology Platforms, in addition to various Corporate Functions. In June 2008, Nokia completed the transfer of its Adaptation Software Research and Development (R&D) operations to Sasken Communication Technologies Limited. In June 2008, Nokia completed the acquisition of Trolltech ASA. In July 2008, Nokia Corporation completed the acquisition of NAVTEQ Corporation, and Plazes, a privately owned start-up company.

• IHS, IHS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 339.527802

IHS Inc. (IHS) is a provider and source of Critical Information and Insight in the global information market. The Company provides information-driven solutions to meet its customers’ needs, which include gaining insight into global energy market movements, managing product lifecycles, meeting growing environmental challenges, and assessing national or corporate security issues. IHS customers range from governments and large multinational corporations to small companies and technical professionals, doing business in more than 180 countries. At the center of its Critical Information products and services is data obtained from public sources, third parties and its own databases. The Company operates through two segments. The Energy segment is focused primarily on the Energy information domain while its Engineering segment is focused primarily on the Product Lifecycle, Security and Environmental information domains. In September 2008, IHS acquired Documental Solutions LLC.

• GENZ, GENZYME CORPORATI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 46.892391

Genzyme Corporation is a biotechnology company. The Company operates in six units. Renal develops, manufactures and distributes products that treat patients suffering from renal diseases, including chronic renal failure. Therapeutics develops, manufactures and distributes therapeutic products, with a focus on products to treat patients suffering from genetic diseases and other chronic debilitating diseases. Transplant develops, manufactures and distributes therapeutic products that address pre-transplantation, prevention and treatment of graft rejection in organ transplantation and other hematologic and auto-immune disorders. Biosurgery develops, manufactures and distributes biotherapeutics and biomaterial products, with an emphasis on products that meet medical needs in orthopaedics and broader surgical areas. Genetics provides testing services for the oncology, prenatal and reproductive markets. Oncology develops, manufactures and distributes products for the treatment of cancer.

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

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY Mellon) is a global financial services company. BNY Mellon?s subsidiaries engage in trust and custody activities, investment management services, banking services and various securities-related activities. The Company operates through seven segments: Asset Management; Wealth Management; Asset Servicing; Issuer Services; Clearing and Execution Services; Treasury Services and Other. Bank of New York Mellon was formed in July 2007, through a merger between The Bank of New York Company, Inc. and Mellon Financial Corporation of Pittsburgh. In January 2008, the Company acquired ARX Capital Management, which is an independent asset management business. In May 2008, the Company acquired the fund of hedge funds administrative services business of LAMP Technologies LLC. In June 2008, U.S. Bancorp?s lead bank, U.S. Bank National Association, acquired Mellon 1st Business Bank in California, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.

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

PIMCO Corporate Income Fund (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s primary investment objective is to seek high current income with capital preservation and capital appreciation as secondary objectives by investing at least 80% of its total assets in a diversified portfolio of United States dollar-denominated corporate debt obligations of varying maturities and other income-producing securities. The Fund may purchase and write (sell) put and call options. The Fund invests in residual interest municipal bonds (RIBs) and residual interest tax-exempt bonds (RITEs) (inverse floaters), whose interest rates bear an inverse relationship to the interest rate on another security or the value of an index. The Fund?s investment manager is Allianz Global Investors Fund Management LLC, an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Allianz Global Investors of America L.P. The Fund?s sub-advisor is Pacific Investment Management Company LLC.

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

Lihir Gold Limited is a gold producer in the Australasian region. The Company?s principal activities consist of the exploration for, development of and mining, processing and sale of gold assets. The company operates gold mines and processing facilities on the island of Lihir, 900 kilometers northeast of Port Moresby in New Ireland province of Papua New Guinea. In March 2007, the Company completed a merger with Victorian gold mining company Ballarat Goldfields NL. Ballarat is building an underground mine and process plant at the historic gold mining centre of Ballarat, 110 kilometers north-west of Melbourne in Victoria. In March 2008, the Company and Equigold NL announced the merger of their businesses.

• ROSE, ROSETTA RESOURCES Current Caprock Strength Rating: 13.033669

Rosetta Resources Inc. is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of oil and gas properties in North America. Its operations are primarily concentrated in the Sacramento Basin of California, the Rocky Mountains, the Lobo and Perdido trends in South Texas, the State Waters of Texas and the Gulf of Mexico. The Company operates approximately 88% of its estimated proved reserves. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company had one major customer, which accounted for approximately 55% of the Company?s consolidated annual revenue. For the year ended December 31, 2007, it drilled 195 gross and 169 net wells.

• CCC, CALGON CARBON CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 159.372314

Calgon Carbon Corporation (Calgon Carbon) is a provider of products, and solutions for purifying water and air. As of December 31, 2007, the Company had operated in three business segments: Activated Carbon and Service, Equipment, and Consumer. The Activated Carbon and Service segment manufactures granular activated carbon for use in applications to remove organic compounds from water, air, and other liquids and gases. The service aspect of the segment consists of the leasing, monitoring and maintenance of carbon adsorption equipment. The Equipment segment provides solutions to customers? air and water purification problems through the design, fabrication and operation of systems that utilize a combination of the Company?s enabling technologies: carbon adsorption, ultraviolet (UV) and advanced ion exchange separation (ISEP) among others. The Consumer segment primarily consists of the manufacture and sale of carbon cloth and new consumer products based on the Company?s technologies.

• DCI, DONALDSON CO INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 104.990479

Donaldson Company, Inc. (Donaldson) is a manufacturer of filtration systems and replacement parts. The Company?s product mix includes air and liquid filters, and exhaust and emission control products for mobile equipment; in-plant air cleaning systems; compressed air purification systems; air intake systems for industrial gas turbines, and specialized filters for diverse applications, such as computer disk drives and semiconductor processing. Products are manufactured at more than 35 plants worldwide and through three of the Company?s joint ventures. Donaldson has two segments: Engine Products and Industrial Products. On March 1, 2007, the Company acquired Aerospace Filtration Systems, Inc., which was integrated into the Engine Products segment. On June 1, 2007, it acquired Rawsen Equipment (Pty) Limited, which was integrated into the Industrial Products segment. It acquired LMC West, Inc. on February 2, 2008.

• IDXX, IDEXX LABS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.505745

IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (IDEXX) develops, manufactures and distributes products, and provides services primarily for the veterinary, and the food and water testing markets. IDEXX?s primary products and services includes point-of-care veterinary diagnostic products, comprising rapid assays and instruments and consumables; laboratory and consulting services used by veterinarians; information products and services, and digital radiography systems used by veterinarians, and veterinary pharmaceutical products. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company operated through three segments: products and services for the veterinary market, which it refers to as Companion Animal Group; water quality products (Water), and products for production animal health, which it refers to as the Production Animal Segment (PAS). It also has two smaller segments that comprise products for dairy quality (Dairy), and products for the human medical diagnostic market (OPTI Medical).

• ERF, ENERPLUS RES FD Current Caprock Strength Rating: -0.796765

Enerplus Resources Fund (Enerplus) is an open-end investment trust. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Fund?s production averaged 82,319 barrels of oil equivalent per day. The Company?s natural gas portfolio in 2007, comprised aggregator, AECO, and downstream direct sales. In 2007, the Company sold 40% of its natural gas on the daily AECO market and 40% on the monthly AECO market, as well as 20% against the day and month New York Mercantile Exchange indices. The Company?s crude oil portfolio in 2007, was approximately 74% light/medium and 26% heavy. During 2007, daily production averaged 80,959 barrels of oil equivalent per day. During 2007, the average production was weighted 53% to natural gas and 47% to liquids on a barrel of oil equivalent basis. On June 22, 2007, the Fund completed the acquisition of Kirby Oil Sands Partnership. On February 13, 2008, Enerplus closed the acquisition of Focus Energy Trust.

• 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.

• MM, METAL MGMT INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 145.575363

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• 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.

• ERF, ENERPLUS RES FD Current Caprock Strength Rating: -0.796765

Enerplus Resources Fund (Enerplus) is an open-end investment trust. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Fund?s production averaged 82,319 barrels of oil equivalent per day. The Company?s natural gas portfolio in 2007, comprised aggregator, AECO, and downstream direct sales. In 2007, the Company sold 40% of its natural gas on the daily AECO market and 40% on the monthly AECO market, as well as 20% against the day and month New York Mercantile Exchange indices. The Company?s crude oil portfolio in 2007, was approximately 74% light/medium and 26% heavy. During 2007, daily production averaged 80,959 barrels of oil equivalent per day. During 2007, the average production was weighted 53% to natural gas and 47% to liquids on a barrel of oil equivalent basis. On June 22, 2007, the Fund completed the acquisition of Kirby Oil Sands Partnership. On February 13, 2008, Enerplus closed the acquisition of Focus Energy Trust.

• 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. In July 2008, the Company completed its previously announced acquisition of Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc. (PHLX). In August 2008, NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. announced that it has completed its acquisition of the Boston Stock Exchange.

• CHL, CHINA MOBILE LIMI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 204.887497

China Mobile Limited is an investment holding company and a mobile services provider in China. Its principal activity is providing mobile telecommunications and related services in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and directly administered municipalities in Mainland China and Hong Kong. As of April 30, 2008, the total number of subscribers reached 399.5 million. The Company?s businesses can be primarily divided into voice business and value-added business.

• KO, COCA COLA CO THE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 235.789154

The Coca-Cola Company is a manufacturer, distributor and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups in the world. Finished beverage products bearing its trademarks are sold in more than 200 countries. The Company markets nonalcoholic sparkling brands, which includes Diet Coke, Fanta and Sprite. Its business is nonalcoholic beverages, principally sparkling beverages, but also a variety of still beverages. The Company manufactures beverage concentrates and syrups, which it sells to bottling and canning operations, fountain wholesalers and some fountain retailers, as well as finished beverages, which it sells primarily to distributors. The Company owns or licenses more than 450 brands, including diet and light beverages, waters, enhanced waters, juices and juice drinks, teas, coffees, and energy and sports drinks.

• UPL, ULTRA PETROLEUM C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 127.758949

Ultra Petroleum Corp. (Ultra) is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the development, production, operation, exploration and acquisition of oil and natural gas properties. The Company?s operations are primarily in the Green River Basin of southwest Wyoming. The Company continually evaluates other opportunities for the acquisition, exploration and development of oil and natural gas properties. As of December 31, 2007, Ultra owns interests in approximately 121,652 gross (62,756 net) acres in Wyoming covering approximately 230 square miles. The Company owns an interest in approximately 676 gross producing wells in this area and is operator of approximately 50% of the 676 gross wells. The Company owns interests in 252,629 gross acres in Pennsylvania. On October 22, 2007, the Company sold Sino-American Energy Corporation (Sino-American), which owned its Bohai Bay assets in China.

• MON, MONSANTO COMPANY Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1448.830444

Monsanto Company (Monsanto), along with its subsidiaries, is a global provider of agricultural products for farmers. The Company?s seeds, biotechnology trait products, and herbicides provide farmers with solutions that improve productivity, reduce the costs of farming, and produce better foods for consumers and better feed for animals. It has two segments: Seeds and Genomics and Agricultural Productivity. Through its Seeds and Genomics segment, it produces seed brands, including DEKALB, Asgrow, D&PL, Deltapine and Seminis, and it develops biotechnology traits that assist farmers in controlling insects and weeds. It also provides other seed companies with genetic material and biotechnology traits for their seed brands. Through its Agricultural Productivity segment, the Company manufactures Roundup brand herbicides and other herbicides and provides lawn-and-garden herbicide products for the residential market and animal agricultural products focused on improving dairy cow productivity.

• 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.

• HSC, HARSCO CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 38.473587

Harsco Corporation is a diversified, multinational provider of industrial services and engineered products. The Company?s operations fall into two segments: Access Services and Mill Services, and an all other category labeled Minerals & Rail Services and Products. The Company has locations in 50 countries, including the United States. On December 7, 2007, the Company completed the sale of its Gas Technologies business group to Wind Point Partners. In March 2008, the Company acquired Baviera S.R.L., a Romania-based distributor of Harsco’s Huennebeck division formwork and scaffolding products in Romania.

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

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

• 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).

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

Bank Mutual Corporation serves as a unitary savings and loan holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary, Bank Mutual (the Bank), a federal savings bank. The Bank is a community-oriented financial institution. Its principal business is originating mortgage loans, consumer loans, commercial real estate loans, and commercial business loans and attracting retail deposits from the general public. It also invests in various mortgage-related securities and investment securities. The principal lending is on one-to four-family, owner-occupied homes, home equity loans and lines of credit, automobile loans, multi-family and commercial real estate loans, and commercial business loans. Its primary sources of funds are deposits, borrowings, scheduled amortization and prepayments of loan principal and mortgage-related securities, and maturities of investment securities and funds provided by operations. At February 29, 2008, the Bank had 77 banking offices located in 31 counties in Wisconsin.

• OXY, OCCIDENTAL PET Current Caprock Strength Rating: 164.502548

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

• 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.

• DNEX, DIONEX CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 22.569416

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

• FMX, FOMENTO ECONOMICO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 106.265846

Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. (FEMSA) is a holding company engaged in the beverage business. Its operating subsidiaries include Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A. de C.V. (Coca-Cola FEMSA), FEMSA Cerveza, S.A. de C.V. (FEMSA Cerveza) and FEMSA Comercio, S.A. de C.V. (FEMSA Comercio). Coca-Cola FEMSA is engaged in the production, distribution and marketing of certain Coca-Cola trademark beverages in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina. FEMSA Cerveza produces, distributes and markets beer through its three operating subsidiaries. FEMSA Comercio is engaged in the operation of a chain of Oxxo convenience stores. As of December 31, 2007, FEMSA Comercio operated 5,563 Oxxo stores located in 31 states of the country, particularly in the northern part of Mexico.

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

United Fire & Casualty Company (United Fire) is engaged in the business of writing property and casualty insurance, and life insurance. The Company operates in two segments: property and casualty insurance, and life insurance. The property and casualty insurance segment markets forms of commercial and personal property, and casualty insurance products, including surety bonds and reinsurance. The Company is licensed as a property and casualty insurer in 42 states, primarily in the Midwest, West and South and is represented by 865 independent agencies. The Company?s life insurance subsidiary is licensed in 28 states, primarily in the Midwest and West and is represented by 927 independent agencies. United Fire focuses on its commercial lines, which represented 92.6% of its property and casualty premiums written for the year ended December 31, 2007. United Fire?s principal life insurance products are single premium annuities, universal life products and traditional life products.

• 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.

• 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.

• PTY, PIMCO CP OPPORTUN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 67.936417

PIMCO Corporate Opportunity Fund (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to seek total return through a combination of current income and capital appreciation in a diversified portfolio of United States dollar-denominated corporate debt obligations of varying maturities and other income producing securities. These include corporate bonds, debentures, notes and other similar types of corporate debt instruments. It focuses on corporate debt obligations rated in the lowest investment-grade category (Baa or BBB) and in the highest non-investment-grade category (Ba or BB). It invests in residual interest municipal bonds and residual interest tax exempt bonds (inverse floaters), whose interest rates bear an inverse relationship to the interest rate on another security or the value of an index. The FundG??s investment manager is Allianz Global Investors Fund Management LLC. Its sub-advisor is Pacific Investment Management Company LLC.

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• 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.

• CSTR, COINSTAR INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 25.980988

Coinstar, Inc. (Coinstar) is a multi-national company offering a range of solutions for retailers? storefronts consisting of self-service coin counting; entertainment services, such as skill-crane machines, bulk vending machines and kiddie rides, and e-payment services, such as money transfer services, prepaid wireless products, stored value cards, payroll cards and prepaid debit cards. In addition, the Company offers self-service digital versatile disc (DVD) kiosks where consumers can rent or purchase movies. As of December 31, 2007, Coinstar owned and operated more than 15,400 coin-counting machines in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. On January 1, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of GroupEx Financial Corporation, JRJ Express Inc. and Kimeco, LLC (collectively, GroupEx). On January 1, 2008, Coinstar exercised an option to acquire a majority ownership interest in Redbox Automated Retail, LLC.

• EGLE, EAGLE BULK SHIPPI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 49.591938

Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. is primarily engaged in the ocean transportation of a range of major and minor bulk cargoes, including iron ore, coal, grain, cement and fertilizer, along worldwide shipping routes. The Company operates in the Handymax sector of the dry bulk industry, with particular emphasis on the Supramax class of vessels. As of December 31, 2007, Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. owned and operated a fleet of 18 Handymax dry bulk vessels, 16 of which were of the Supramax class, with a combined carrying capacity of 915,502 deadweight tons and an average age of approximately six years. The Company carries out the commercial management of its fleet through its wholly owned subsidiary, Eagle Shipping International (USA) LLC. The Company, either directly or through Eagle Shipping International (USA) LLC, provides services, such as commercial operations and technical supervision, safety monitoring, vessel acquisition, and financial, accounting and information technology services.

• AF, ASTORIA FINL CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 44.930077

Astoria Financial Corporation is the unitary savings and loan association holding company of Astoria Federal Savings and Loan Association, and its consolidated subsidiaries (collectively referred to as Astoria Federal). Astoria Federal?s primary business is attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations, principal repayments on loans and securities and borrowings, primarily in one- to-four family mortgage loans, multi-family mortgage loans, commercial real estate loans and mortgage-backed securities. To a lesser degree, Astoria Federal also invests in construction loans, and consumer and other loans, United States government, government agency and government-sponsored enterprise (GSE), securities and other investments permitted by federal banking laws and regulations.

• HLEX, HEALTHEXTRAS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.287270

HealthExtras, Inc. provides pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services and supplemental benefit programs. The Company operates through two business segments: PBM and supplemental benefits. The PBM segment, which operates primarily under the brand name Catalyst Rx, provides the Company?s clients access to a contracted, non-exclusive national network of approximately 60,000 pharmacies. Its PBM clients include more than 1,000 self-insured employers, including state and local governments, managed care organizations, third-party administrators (TPAs) and unions, who contract with HealthExtras, Inc. to administer the prescription drug component of their overall health benefit programs. The supplemental benefits segment provides supplemental benefit programs, under the brand name HealthExtras, which include lump sum accidental disability benefits, accidental death and dismemberment benefits, and emergency accident and sickness medical reimbursement benefits.

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

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Wal-Mart) operates retail stores in various formats around the world. The Company earns the trust of its customers every day by providing an assortment of merchandise and services at every day low prices (EDLP), while fostering a culture that rewards and embraces mutual respect, integrity and diversity. Wal-Mart?s operations comprise three business segments: Wal-Mart Stores, Sam?s Club and International. Its Wal-Mart Stores segment is the largest segment of the Company?s business, accounting for 64% of its net sales, during the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008 (fiscal 2008), and operates stores in three different formats in the United States, as well as Wal-Mart?s online retail operations, walmart.com. Its Sam?s Club segment consists of membership warehouse clubs in the United States and the segment?s online retail operations, samsclub.com. Sam?s Club accounted for 11.8% of the Company?s net sales during fiscal 2008.

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

EOG Resources, Inc. (EOG), together with its subsidiaries, explores for, develops, produces and markets natural gas and crude oil primarily in major producing basins in the United States, Canada, offshore Trinidad, the United Kingdom North Sea and other international areas. As of December 31, 2007, EOG’s total estimated net proved reserves were 7,745 billion cubic feet equivalent (Bcfe), of which 6,669 billion cubic feet (Bcf) were natural gas reserves and 179 million barrels (MMBbl), or 1,076 Bcfe, were crude oil, condensate and natural gas liquids reserves. At December 31, 2007, approximately 67% of EOG’s reserves (on a natural gas equivalent basis) was located in the United States, 17% in Canada and 16% in Trinidad.

• DNEX, DIONEX CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 22.569416

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

• 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.

• 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.

• CSTR, COINSTAR INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 25.980988

Coinstar, Inc. (Coinstar) is a multi-national company offering a range of solutions for retailers? storefronts consisting of self-service coin counting; entertainment services, such as skill-crane machines, bulk vending machines and kiddie rides, and e-payment services, such as money transfer services, prepaid wireless products, stored value cards, payroll cards and prepaid debit cards. In addition, the Company offers self-service digital versatile disc (DVD) kiosks where consumers can rent or purchase movies. As of December 31, 2007, Coinstar owned and operated more than 15,400 coin-counting machines in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. On January 1, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of GroupEx Financial Corporation, JRJ Express Inc. and Kimeco, LLC (collectively, GroupEx). On January 1, 2008, Coinstar exercised an option to acquire a majority ownership interest in Redbox Automated Retail, LLC.

• 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.

• 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.

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

Raytheon Company designs, develops, manufactures, integrates, supports and provides a range of technologically advanced products, services and solutions for governmental customers in the United States and worldwide. The Company operates through six business segments: Integrated Defense Systems (IDS), Intelligence and Information Systems (IIS), Missile Systems (MS), Network Centric Systems (NCS), Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) and Technical Services (TS). During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company completed the sale of Raytheon Aircraft Company (Raytheon Aircraft) and Flight Options LLC (Flight Options), two former operating commercial aviation businesses. In October 2007, the Company acquired Oakley Networks, Inc., a privately held technology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, which provides cyber security and data leakage prevention systems. In April 2008, the Company acquired SI Government Solutions. In July 2008, the Company acquired Telemus Solutions, Inc.

• XRAY, DENTSPLY INTL INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 34.091137

DENTSPLY International Inc. (DENTSPLY) is a designer, developer, manufacturer and marketer of a range of products for the dental market. The Company?s principal dental product categories are dental consumables, dental laboratory products and dental specialty products. Sales of DENTSPLY?s dental products accounted for approximately 97% of its net sales, excluding precious metal content, during the year ended December 31, 2007. The remaining 3% of consolidated sales are related to materials sold to the investment casting industry and various medical products. As of December 31, 2007, the Company conducted its business through four operating segments, all of which were primarily engaged in the design, manufacture and distribution of dental products in three principal categories: dental consumables, dental laboratory products and dental specialty products. DENTSPLY conducts its business in over 120 foreign countries, principally through its foreign subsidiaries.

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

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

• OXY, OCCIDENTAL PET Current Caprock Strength Rating: 164.502548

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

• 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.

• CCE, COCA COLA ENTRPR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 10.380109

Coca Cola Enterprises Inc. is engaged in marketing, producing and distributing non-alcoholic beverages. The Company serves a market of approximately 414 million consumers throughout the United States, Canada, the United States Virgin Islands and certain other Caribbean islands, Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco and Netherlands. It represents 18% of the total Coca-Cola product volume globally. During the year ended December 31, 2007, it sold approximately 42 billion bottles and cans (or 2 billion physical cases) throughout its territories. Products licensed to the Company through The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) and its affiliates and joint ventures represented approximately 93% of its volume in 2007. The Company manufacture its finished product from syrups and concentrates it buys from TCCC and other licensors. It sells its products to consumers through retailers and wholesalers. In March 2008, the Company acquired the Cen-Tex Coca-Cola Bottling Company.

• 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.

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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.

• ASR, GRUPO AEROPORTUAR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 7.714497

Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A.B. de C.V. (ASUR) holds concessions to operate, maintain and develop nine airports in the southeast region of Mexico. As operator of these airports, the Company charges airlines, passengers and other users fees for the use of the airports? facilities. ASUR also derives rental and other income from commercial activities conducted at its airports, such as the leasing of space to restaurants and retailers. Its concessions include the concession for Cancun International Airport. ASUR also holds concessions to operate the airports in Cozumel, Huatulco, Merida, Minatitlan, Oaxaca, Tapachula, Veracruz and Villahermosa. During the year ended December 31, 2007, its airports served a total of 16.2 million passengers, approximately 55.8% of which were international passengers.

• HCP, HEALTHCARE PROP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 3.127659

HCP, Inc. (HCP), formerly Health Care Property Investors, Inc., is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focusing primarily on properties serving the healthcare industry. HCP is a self-administered REIT that invests directly or through joint ventures in healthcare facilities. The Company acquires, develop, lease, dispose and manage healthcare real estate and provide mortgage and other financing to healthcare providers. The Company?s holdings include 753 properties distributed among distinct sectors of healthcare, including senior housing, medical office, life science, hospital and skilled nursing. Its portfolio includes investments in five healthcare segments: senior housing, life science, medical office, hospital and skilled nursing. In August 2007, the Company acquired Slough Estates USA Inc.

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

Raytheon Company designs, develops, manufactures, integrates, supports and provides a range of technologically advanced products, services and solutions for governmental customers in the United States and worldwide. The Company operates through six business segments: Integrated Defense Systems (IDS), Intelligence and Information Systems (IIS), Missile Systems (MS), Network Centric Systems (NCS), Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) and Technical Services (TS). During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company completed the sale of Raytheon Aircraft Company (Raytheon Aircraft) and Flight Options LLC (Flight Options), two former operating commercial aviation businesses. In October 2007, the Company acquired Oakley Networks, Inc., a privately held technology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, which provides cyber security and data leakage prevention systems. In April 2008, the Company acquired SI Government Solutions. In July 2008, the Company acquired Telemus Solutions, Inc.

• 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.

• 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.

• PIM, PUTNAM MASTER INT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 70.561958

Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust (the Fund) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund’s investment objective is to seek high current income by allocating its investments among the United States investment-grade sectors, high-yield sector and international sector. The Fund invests in higher yielding, lower-rated bonds that have a higher rate of default. Its portfolio consists of government, credit and securitized debt instruments. The Fund’s portfolio includes mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities. The Fund invests in various industry sectors, including foreign, government, other, consumer cyclical, communications, energy, basic materials and healthcare. The Fund’s investment manager is Putnam Investment Management, LLC.

• DLB, DOLBY LABORATORIE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 247.120453

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. develops and delivers products and technologies that improve the entertainment experience. The Company?s technologies are used in digital versatile disc (DVD) players and personal computer DVD playback software, digital televisions and portable electronic devices, and also in a variety of consumer electronic products, such as gaming systems and audio/video receivers. Dolby cinema products are used in movie theatres around the world. Dolby broadcast products distribute audio around the world. The Company delivers technologies, products and services at each stage of the entertainment chain, content creation, content distribution and content playback. In April 2007, the Company acquired Brightside Technologies Inc. On November 9, 2007, the Company acquired Coding Technologies AB, a privately held provider of audio compression technologies for the mobile, digital broadcast and Internet markets.

• PBT, PERMIAN BASIN ROY Current Caprock Strength Rating: 252.514313

The Permian Basin Royalty Trust (the Trust) is an express trust. The net overriding royalties conveyed to the Trust (the Royalties) include a 75% net overriding royalty carved out of Southland Royalty?s fee mineral interests in the Waddell Ranch in Crane County, Texas (the Waddell Ranch properties), and a 95% net overriding royalty carved out of Southland Royalty?s major producing royalty interests in Texas (the Texas Royalty properties). The Waddell Ranch properties consist of 76,922 gross (33,246 net) producing acres. A majority of the proved reserves are attributable to six fields: Dune, Sand Hills (Judkins), Sand Hills (McKnight), Sand Hills (Tubb), University-Waddell (Devonian) and Waddell. The Texas Royalty properties consist of royalty interests in mature producing oil fields, such as Yates, Wasson, Sand Hills, East Texas, Kelly-Snyder, Panhandle Regular, N. Cowden, Todd, Keystone, Kermit, McElroy, Howard-Glasscock, Seminole and others.

• ARA, ARACRUZ CELULOSE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 52.415356

Aracruz Celulose S.A. (Aracruz) is producer of bleached hardwood kraft market pulp. The Company produces eucalyptus pulp, which is a variety of hardwood pulp used by paper manufacturers to produce a range of products, including tissues, printing and writing papers, liquid packaging boards and specialty papers. The Company?s production facilities consist of the Barra do Riacho Unit in Espirito Santo State, which has three production units each with two bleaching, drying and baling lines, the Guaiba Unit, located in the municipality of Guaiba, State of Rio Grande do Sul, and Veracel, located in the municipality of Eunapolis, State of Bahia, where it has a 50% stake. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company produced approximately 2,569,000 tons of bleached eucalyptus kraft pulp (BEKP) (3,095,000 tons including 50% of Veracel’s pulp production).

• SO, SOUTHERN CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 59.364277

The Southern Company (Southern Company) owns all of the outstanding common stock of Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, and Mississippi Power, each of which is an operating public utility company. The traditional operating companies supply electric service in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. In addition, Southern Company owns all of the common stock of Southern Power, which is also an operating public utility company. Southern Power constructs, acquires, owns, and manages generation assets and sells electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market. Southern Company also owns all the outstanding common stock or membership interests of SouthernLINC Wireless, Southern Nuclear, SCS, Southern Holdings and other direct and indirect subsidiaries.

• GEF, GREIF INC CL A Current Caprock Strength Rating: 75.771164

Greif, Inc. is a global producer of industrial packaging products with manufacturing facilities located in over 45 countries. The Company offers a line of industrial packaging products, such as steel, fiber and plastic drums, intermediate bulk containers, closure systems for industrial packaging products, and polycarbonate water bottles, which are complemented with a variety of value-added services, including blending, packaging, logistics and warehousing. It also produces containerboard and corrugated products for niche markets in North America. Greif, Inc. sells timber to third parties from its timberland in the southeastern United States. The Company also owns timberland in Canada that it does not actively manage. In addition, it sells timberland and special use land, which consists of surplus land, higher and better use (HBU) land, and development land. Greif, Inc. operates in three business segments: Industrial Packaging and Services; Paper, Packaging and Services, and Timber.

• GENZ, GENZYME CORPORATI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 46.892391

Genzyme Corporation is a biotechnology company. The Company operates in six units. Renal develops, manufactures and distributes products that treat patients suffering from renal diseases, including chronic renal failure. Therapeutics develops, manufactures and distributes therapeutic products, with a focus on products to treat patients suffering from genetic diseases and other chronic debilitating diseases. Transplant develops, manufactures and distributes therapeutic products that address pre-transplantation, prevention and treatment of graft rejection in organ transplantation and other hematologic and auto-immune disorders. Biosurgery develops, manufactures and distributes biotherapeutics and biomaterial products, with an emphasis on products that meet medical needs in orthopaedics and broader surgical areas. Genetics provides testing services for the oncology, prenatal and reproductive markets. Oncology develops, manufactures and distributes products for the treatment of cancer.

• EAC, ENCORE ACQUISITIO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 57.562366

Encore Acquisition Company (Encore) is engaged in the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas reserves from onshore fields in the United States. The Company’s properties and oil and natural gas reserves are located in four core areas: the Cedar Creek Anticline (CCA) in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota; the Permian Basin of West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico; the Rockies, which includes non-CCA assets in the Williston, Big Horn and Powder River Basins of Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming, and the Paradox Basin of southeastern Utah, and the Mid-Continent area, which includes the Arkoma and Anadarko Basins of Oklahoma, the North Louisiana Salt Basin, and the East Texas Basin. In April 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of the oil and natural gas properties in the Williston Basin from subsidiaries of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.

• IHS, IHS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 339.527802

IHS Inc. (IHS) is a provider and source of Critical Information and Insight in the global information market. The Company provides information-driven solutions to meet its customers’ needs, which include gaining insight into global energy market movements, managing product lifecycles, meeting growing environmental challenges, and assessing national or corporate security issues. IHS customers range from governments and large multinational corporations to small companies and technical professionals, doing business in more than 180 countries. At the center of its Critical Information products and services is data obtained from public sources, third parties and its own databases. The Company operates through two segments. The Energy segment is focused primarily on the Energy information domain while its Engineering segment is focused primarily on the Product Lifecycle, Security and Environmental information domains. In September 2008, IHS acquired Documental Solutions LLC.

• KMP, KINDER MORGAN ENE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 79.919151

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (KMP) is a pipeline transportation ad energy storage company in North America. The Company owns an interest in or operates more than 25,000 miles of pipelines and approximately 165 terminals. The Company’s pipelines transport natural gas, gasoline, crude oil, carbon dioxide and other products, and its terminals store petroleum products and chemicals and handle bulk materials like coal and petroleum coke. The Company operates through five segments: Products Pipelines, which consists of approximately 8,300 miles of refined petroleum products pipelines; CO2, which produces, markets and transports, through approximately 1,300 miles of pipelines, carbon dioxide (CO2) to oil fields; Terminals, which consists of approximately 108 owned or operated liquids and bulk terminal facilities and more than 45 rail transloading and materials handling facilities, and Trans Mountain, which consists of over 700 miles of common carrier pipelines.

• FMX, FOMENTO ECONOMICO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 106.265846

Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. (FEMSA) is a holding company engaged in the beverage business. Its operating subsidiaries include Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A. de C.V. (Coca-Cola FEMSA), FEMSA Cerveza, S.A. de C.V. (FEMSA Cerveza) and FEMSA Comercio, S.A. de C.V. (FEMSA Comercio). Coca-Cola FEMSA is engaged in the production, distribution and marketing of certain Coca-Cola trademark beverages in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina. FEMSA Cerveza produces, distributes and markets beer through its three operating subsidiaries. FEMSA Comercio is engaged in the operation of a chain of Oxxo convenience stores. As of December 31, 2007, FEMSA Comercio operated 5,563 Oxxo stores located in 31 states of the country, particularly in the northern part of Mexico.

• MFA, MFA MTG INVTS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 492.858124

MFA Mortgage Investments, Inc. is a real estate investment trust primarily engaged in the business of investing, on a leveraged basis, in mortgage-backed securities (MBS). The Company?s assets consist of hybrid and adjustable-rate MBS (collectively, ARM-MBS) issued or guaranteed by a federally chartered corporation, such as Federal National Mortgage Association or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or an agency of the United States Government, such as the Government National Mortgage Association, ARM-MBS rated by at least one nationally recognized rating agency, and MBS-related receivables and cash. At December 31, 2007, 94.8% of total assets consisted of Agency MBS, 5.1% consisted of non-Agency AAA-rated MBS. Non-Agency MBS rated below AAA unrated, comprised less than 0.1% of its remaining assets. In addition, the Company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, provides investment advisory services to third-party institutions with respect to their MBS portfolio investments.

• CCE, COCA COLA ENTRPR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 10.380109

Coca Cola Enterprises Inc. is engaged in marketing, producing and distributing non-alcoholic beverages. The Company serves a market of approximately 414 million consumers throughout the United States, Canada, the United States Virgin Islands and certain other Caribbean islands, Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco and Netherlands. It represents 18% of the total Coca-Cola product volume globally. During the year ended December 31, 2007, it sold approximately 42 billion bottles and cans (or 2 billion physical cases) throughout its territories. Products licensed to the Company through The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) and its affiliates and joint ventures represented approximately 93% of its volume in 2007. The Company manufacture its finished product from syrups and concentrates it buys from TCCC and other licensors. It sells its products to consumers through retailers and wholesalers. In March 2008, the Company acquired the Cen-Tex Coca-Cola Bottling Company.

• WW, WATSON WYATT WLD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 114.946220

Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Inc. (Watson Wyatt) is a global consulting firm, providing human capital and financial management consulting services. The Company focuses on delivering consulting services that help its clients anticipate, identify, and capitalize on emerging opportunities in human capital management. It also provides independent financial advice regarding all aspects of life assurance and general insurance, as well as investment advice to assist its clients in developing investment strategies. As of June 30, 2008, Watson Wyatt provided these services through approximately 7,000 associates in 107 offices located in 32 countries. The global operations include five segments: Benefits, Technology and Administration Solutions, Human Capital, Investment Consulting and Insurance and Financial Services. On July 20, 2007, it acquired Dr. Dr. Heissmann GmbH. On July 2, 2007, Watson Wyatt acquired the net assets of WisdomNet. On June 16, 2008, the company acquired Marcu & Asociados S.A.

• CRK, COMSTOCK RES Current Caprock Strength Rating: 88.390938

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

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• ASR, GRUPO AEROPORTUAR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 7.714497

Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A.B. de C.V. (ASUR) holds concessions to operate, maintain and develop nine airports in the southeast region of Mexico. As operator of these airports, the Company charges airlines, passengers and other users fees for the use of the airports? facilities. ASUR also derives rental and other income from commercial activities conducted at its airports, such as the leasing of space to restaurants and retailers. Its concessions include the concession for Cancun International Airport. ASUR also holds concessions to operate the airports in Cozumel, Huatulco, Merida, Minatitlan, Oaxaca, Tapachula, Veracruz and Villahermosa. During the year ended December 31, 2007, its airports served a total of 16.2 million passengers, approximately 55.8% of which were international passengers.

• HCP, HEALTHCARE PROP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 3.127659

HCP, Inc. (HCP), formerly Health Care Property Investors, Inc., is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focusing primarily on properties serving the healthcare industry. HCP is a self-administered REIT that invests directly or through joint ventures in healthcare facilities. The Company acquires, develop, lease, dispose and manage healthcare real estate and provide mortgage and other financing to healthcare providers. The Company?s holdings include 753 properties distributed among distinct sectors of healthcare, including senior housing, medical office, life science, hospital and skilled nursing. Its portfolio includes investments in five healthcare segments: senior housing, life science, medical office, hospital and skilled nursing. In August 2007, the Company acquired Slough Estates USA Inc.

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

Raytheon Company designs, develops, manufactures, integrates, supports and provides a range of technologically advanced products, services and solutions for governmental customers in the United States and worldwide. The Company operates through six business segments: Integrated Defense Systems (IDS), Intelligence and Information Systems (IIS), Missile Systems (MS), Network Centric Systems (NCS), Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) and Technical Services (TS). During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company completed the sale of Raytheon Aircraft Company (Raytheon Aircraft) and Flight Options LLC (Flight Options), two former operating commercial aviation businesses. In October 2007, the Company acquired Oakley Networks, Inc., a privately held technology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, which provides cyber security and data leakage prevention systems. In April 2008, the Company acquired SI Government Solutions. In July 2008, the Company acquired Telemus Solutions, Inc.

• 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.

• 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.

• PIM, PUTNAM MASTER INT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 70.561958

Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust (the Fund) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund’s investment objective is to seek high current income by allocating its investments among the United States investment-grade sectors, high-yield sector and international sector. The Fund invests in higher yielding, lower-rated bonds that have a higher rate of default. Its portfolio consists of government, credit and securitized debt instruments. The Fund’s portfolio includes mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities. The Fund invests in various industry sectors, including foreign, government, other, consumer cyclical, communications, energy, basic materials and healthcare. The Fund’s investment manager is Putnam Investment Management, LLC.

• DLB, DOLBY LABORATORIE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 247.120453

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. develops and delivers products and technologies that improve the entertainment experience. The Company?s technologies are used in digital versatile disc (DVD) players and personal computer DVD playback software, digital televisions and portable electronic devices, and also in a variety of consumer electronic products, such as gaming systems and audio/video receivers. Dolby cinema products are used in movie theatres around the world. Dolby broadcast products distribute audio around the world. The Company delivers technologies, products and services at each stage of the entertainment chain, content creation, content distribution and content playback. In April 2007, the Company acquired Brightside Technologies Inc. On November 9, 2007, the Company acquired Coding Technologies AB, a privately held provider of audio compression technologies for the mobile, digital broadcast and Internet markets.

• PBT, PERMIAN BASIN ROY Current Caprock Strength Rating: 252.514313

The Permian Basin Royalty Trust (the Trust) is an express trust. The net overriding royalties conveyed to the Trust (the Royalties) include a 75% net overriding royalty carved out of Southland Royalty?s fee mineral interests in the Waddell Ranch in Crane County, Texas (the Waddell Ranch properties), and a 95% net overriding royalty carved out of Southland Royalty?s major producing royalty interests in Texas (the Texas Royalty properties). The Waddell Ranch properties consist of 76,922 gross (33,246 net) producing acres. A majority of the proved reserves are attributable to six fields: Dune, Sand Hills (Judkins), Sand Hills (McKnight), Sand Hills (Tubb), University-Waddell (Devonian) and Waddell. The Texas Royalty properties consist of royalty interests in mature producing oil fields, such as Yates, Wasson, Sand Hills, East Texas, Kelly-Snyder, Panhandle Regular, N. Cowden, Todd, Keystone, Kermit, McElroy, Howard-Glasscock, Seminole and others.

• ARA, ARACRUZ CELULOSE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 52.415356

Aracruz Celulose S.A. (Aracruz) is producer of bleached hardwood kraft market pulp. The Company produces eucalyptus pulp, which is a variety of hardwood pulp used by paper manufacturers to produce a range of products, including tissues, printing and writing papers, liquid packaging boards and specialty papers. The Company?s production facilities consist of the Barra do Riacho Unit in Espirito Santo State, which has three production units each with two bleaching, drying and baling lines, the Guaiba Unit, located in the municipality of Guaiba, State of Rio Grande do Sul, and Veracel, located in the municipality of Eunapolis, State of Bahia, where it has a 50% stake. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company produced approximately 2,569,000 tons of bleached eucalyptus kraft pulp (BEKP) (3,095,000 tons including 50% of Veracel’s pulp production).

• SO, SOUTHERN CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 59.364277

The Southern Company (Southern Company) owns all of the outstanding common stock of Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, and Mississippi Power, each of which is an operating public utility company. The traditional operating companies supply electric service in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. In addition, Southern Company owns all of the common stock of Southern Power, which is also an operating public utility company. Southern Power constructs, acquires, owns, and manages generation assets and sells electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market. Southern Company also owns all the outstanding common stock or membership interests of SouthernLINC Wireless, Southern Nuclear, SCS, Southern Holdings and other direct and indirect subsidiaries.

• GEF, GREIF INC CL A Current Caprock Strength Rating: 75.771164

Greif, Inc. is a global producer of industrial packaging products with manufacturing facilities located in over 45 countries. The Company offers a line of industrial packaging products, such as steel, fiber and plastic drums, intermediate bulk containers, closure systems for industrial packaging products, and polycarbonate water bottles, which are complemented with a variety of value-added services, including blending, packaging, logistics and warehousing. It also produces containerboard and corrugated products for niche markets in North America. Greif, Inc. sells timber to third parties from its timberland in the southeastern United States. The Company also owns timberland in Canada that it does not actively manage. In addition, it sells timberland and special use land, which consists of surplus land, higher and better use (HBU) land, and development land. Greif, Inc. operates in three business segments: Industrial Packaging and Services; Paper, Packaging and Services, and Timber.

• GENZ, GENZYME CORPORATI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 46.892391

Genzyme Corporation is a biotechnology company. The Company operates in six units. Renal develops, manufactures and distributes products that treat patients suffering from renal diseases, including chronic renal failure. Therapeutics develops, manufactures and distributes therapeutic products, with a focus on products to treat patients suffering from genetic diseases and other chronic debilitating diseases. Transplant develops, manufactures and distributes therapeutic products that address pre-transplantation, prevention and treatment of graft rejection in organ transplantation and other hematologic and auto-immune disorders. Biosurgery develops, manufactures and distributes biotherapeutics and biomaterial products, with an emphasis on products that meet medical needs in orthopaedics and broader surgical areas. Genetics provides testing services for the oncology, prenatal and reproductive markets. Oncology develops, manufactures and distributes products for the treatment of cancer.

• EAC, ENCORE ACQUISITIO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 57.562366

Encore Acquisition Company (Encore) is engaged in the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas reserves from onshore fields in the United States. The Company’s properties and oil and natural gas reserves are located in four core areas: the Cedar Creek Anticline (CCA) in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota; the Permian Basin of West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico; the Rockies, which includes non-CCA assets in the Williston, Big Horn and Powder River Basins of Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming, and the Paradox Basin of southeastern Utah, and the Mid-Continent area, which includes the Arkoma and Anadarko Basins of Oklahoma, the North Louisiana Salt Basin, and the East Texas Basin. In April 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of the oil and natural gas properties in the Williston Basin from subsidiaries of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.

• IHS, IHS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 339.527802

IHS Inc. (IHS) is a provider and source of Critical Information and Insight in the global information market. The Company provides information-driven solutions to meet its customers’ needs, which include gaining insight into global energy market movements, managing product lifecycles, meeting growing environmental challenges, and assessing national or corporate security issues. IHS customers range from governments and large multinational corporations to small companies and technical professionals, doing business in more than 180 countries. At the center of its Critical Information products and services is data obtained from public sources, third parties and its own databases. The Company operates through two segments. The Energy segment is focused primarily on the Energy information domain while its Engineering segment is focused primarily on the Product Lifecycle, Security and Environmental information domains. In September 2008, IHS acquired Documental Solutions LLC.

• KMP, KINDER MORGAN ENE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 79.919151

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (KMP) is a pipeline transportation ad energy storage company in North America. The Company owns an interest in or operates more than 25,000 miles of pipelines and approximately 165 terminals. The Company’s pipelines transport natural gas, gasoline, crude oil, carbon dioxide and other products, and its terminals store petroleum products and chemicals and handle bulk materials like coal and petroleum coke. The Company operates through five segments: Products Pipelines, which consists of approximately 8,300 miles of refined petroleum products pipelines; CO2, which produces, markets and transports, through approximately 1,300 miles of pipelines, carbon dioxide (CO2) to oil fields; Terminals, which consists of approximately 108 owned or operated liquids and bulk terminal facilities and more than 45 rail transloading and materials handling facilities, and Trans Mountain, which consists of over 700 miles of common carrier pipelines.

• FMX, FOMENTO ECONOMICO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 106.265846

Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. (FEMSA) is a holding company engaged in the beverage business. Its operating subsidiaries include Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A. de C.V. (Coca-Cola FEMSA), FEMSA Cerveza, S.A. de C.V. (FEMSA Cerveza) and FEMSA Comercio, S.A. de C.V. (FEMSA Comercio). Coca-Cola FEMSA is engaged in the production, distribution and marketing of certain Coca-Cola trademark beverages in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina. FEMSA Cerveza produces, distributes and markets beer through its three operating subsidiaries. FEMSA Comercio is engaged in the operation of a chain of Oxxo convenience stores. As of December 31, 2007, FEMSA Comercio operated 5,563 Oxxo stores located in 31 states of the country, particularly in the northern part of Mexico.

• MFA, MFA MTG INVTS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 492.858124

MFA Mortgage Investments, Inc. is a real estate investment trust primarily engaged in the business of investing, on a leveraged basis, in mortgage-backed securities (MBS). The Company?s assets consist of hybrid and adjustable-rate MBS (collectively, ARM-MBS) issued or guaranteed by a federally chartered corporation, such as Federal National Mortgage Association or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or an agency of the United States Government, such as the Government National Mortgage Association, ARM-MBS rated by at least one nationally recognized rating agency, and MBS-related receivables and cash. At December 31, 2007, 94.8% of total assets consisted of Agency MBS, 5.1% consisted of non-Agency AAA-rated MBS. Non-Agency MBS rated below AAA unrated, comprised less than 0.1% of its remaining assets. In addition, the Company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, provides investment advisory services to third-party institutions with respect to their MBS portfolio investments.

• CCE, COCA COLA ENTRPR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 10.380109

Coca Cola Enterprises Inc. is engaged in marketing, producing and distributing non-alcoholic beverages. The Company serves a market of approximately 414 million consumers throughout the United States, Canada, the United States Virgin Islands and certain other Caribbean islands, Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco and Netherlands. It represents 18% of the total Coca-Cola product volume globally. During the year ended December 31, 2007, it sold approximately 42 billion bottles and cans (or 2 billion physical cases) throughout its territories. Products licensed to the Company through The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) and its affiliates and joint ventures represented approximately 93% of its volume in 2007. The Company manufacture its finished product from syrups and concentrates it buys from TCCC and other licensors. It sells its products to consumers through retailers and wholesalers. In March 2008, the Company acquired the Cen-Tex Coca-Cola Bottling Company.

• WW, WATSON WYATT WLD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 114.946220

Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Inc. (Watson Wyatt) is a global consulting firm, providing human capital and financial management consulting services. The Company focuses on delivering consulting services that help its clients anticipate, identify, and capitalize on emerging opportunities in human capital management. It also provides independent financial advice regarding all aspects of life assurance and general insurance, as well as investment advice to assist its clients in developing investment strategies. As of June 30, 2008, Watson Wyatt provided these services through approximately 7,000 associates in 107 offices located in 32 countries. The global operations include five segments: Benefits, Technology and Administration Solutions, Human Capital, Investment Consulting and Insurance and Financial Services. On July 20, 2007, it acquired Dr. Dr. Heissmann GmbH. On July 2, 2007, Watson Wyatt acquired the net assets of WisdomNet. On June 16, 2008, the company acquired Marcu & Asociados S.A.

• CRK, COMSTOCK RES Current Caprock Strength Rating: 88.390938

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

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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.

• TIP, ISHARES LEHMAN TI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 211.759079
• HCP, HEALTHCARE PROP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 3.127659

HCP, Inc. (HCP), formerly Health Care Property Investors, Inc., is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focusing primarily on properties serving the healthcare industry. HCP is a self-administered REIT that invests directly or through joint ventures in healthcare facilities. The Company acquires, develop, lease, dispose and manage healthcare real estate and provide mortgage and other financing to healthcare providers. The Company?s holdings include 753 properties distributed among distinct sectors of healthcare, including senior housing, medical office, life science, hospital and skilled nursing. Its portfolio includes investments in five healthcare segments: senior housing, life science, medical office, hospital and skilled nursing. In August 2007, the Company acquired Slough Estates USA Inc.

• FWRD, FOWARD AIR CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: -0.111200

Forward Air Corporation provides time-definite surface transportation and related logistics services to the North American deferred airfreight market. The Company offers its customers scheduled surface transportation of cargo as an alternative to air transportation. It operates through terminals located in 85 cities on or near airports in the United States and Canada, including a central sorting facility in Columbus, Ohio, and 10 regional hubs serving key markets. During the year ended December 31, 2007, Forward Air Corporation’s age shipment weighed over 720 pounds. The Company offers its customers logistics services, including expedited truckload (TLX); pool distribution; dedicated fleets; local pick-up and delivery; warehousing; customs brokerage; and shipment consolidation, deconsolidation and handling. It markets its services primarily to airfreight forwarders, integrated air cargo carriers, and passenger and cargo airlines.

• 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.

• URBN, URBAN OUTFITTERS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.870598

Urban Outfitters, Inc. (Urban Outfitters) is a lifestyle specialty retail company that operates under the Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People and Terrain brands, and it also operates a wholesale business under the Free People brand. In addition to its retail stores, it offers products and markets its brands directly to the consumer through e-commerce Websites, and Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and Free People catalogs. It operates two business segments: a lifestyle merchandising retailing segment and a wholesale apparel business. The retailing segment consists of Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People brands and Terrain brands, whose merchandise is sold directly to the Company?s customers through its stores, catalogs, call centers and Websites. The wholesale apparel segment consists of Free People Wholesale division that designs, develops and markets young women?s contemporary casual apparel.

• PEP, PEPSICO INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 172.410660

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

• CEG, CONSTELLATION ENG Current Caprock Strength Rating: 17.823517

Constellation Energy Group Inc. is an energy company that conducts its business through various subsidiaries, including a merchant energy business and Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE). The Company?s merchant energy business is a provider of energy solutions for a variety of customers. BGE is a regulated electric transmission and distribution utility company and a regulated gas distribution utility company with a service territory that covers the City of Baltimore and all or part of 10 counties in central Maryland. The Company?s operating segments are Merchant Energy, Regulated Electric and Regulated Gas. Its remaining non-regulated businesses design, construct and operate renewable energy, heating, cooling and cogeneration facilities for commercial, industrial and governmental customers throughout North America, as well as provide home improvements, service electric and gas appliances, service heating, air conditioning and plumbing to residential customers in Central Maryland.

• EGLE, EAGLE BULK SHIPPI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 49.591938

Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. is primarily engaged in the ocean transportation of a range of major and minor bulk cargoes, including iron ore, coal, grain, cement and fertilizer, along worldwide shipping routes. The Company operates in the Handymax sector of the dry bulk industry, with particular emphasis on the Supramax class of vessels. As of December 31, 2007, Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. owned and operated a fleet of 18 Handymax dry bulk vessels, 16 of which were of the Supramax class, with a combined carrying capacity of 915,502 deadweight tons and an average age of approximately six years. The Company carries out the commercial management of its fleet through its wholly owned subsidiary, Eagle Shipping International (USA) LLC. The Company, either directly or through Eagle Shipping International (USA) LLC, provides services, such as commercial operations and technical supervision, safety monitoring, vessel acquisition, and financial, accounting and information technology services.

• FXI, ISHARES TR FTSE I Current Caprock Strength Rating: 16.772673
• DNEX, DIONEX CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 22.569416

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

• EGLE, EAGLE BULK SHIPPI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 49.591938

Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. is primarily engaged in the ocean transportation of a range of major and minor bulk cargoes, including iron ore, coal, grain, cement and fertilizer, along worldwide shipping routes. The Company operates in the Handymax sector of the dry bulk industry, with particular emphasis on the Supramax class of vessels. As of December 31, 2007, Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. owned and operated a fleet of 18 Handymax dry bulk vessels, 16 of which were of the Supramax class, with a combined carrying capacity of 915,502 deadweight tons and an average age of approximately six years. The Company carries out the commercial management of its fleet through its wholly owned subsidiary, Eagle Shipping International (USA) LLC. The Company, either directly or through Eagle Shipping International (USA) LLC, provides services, such as commercial operations and technical supervision, safety monitoring, vessel acquisition, and financial, accounting and information technology services.

• PIF, INSURD MUNI INCM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 16.223713

Insured Municipal Income Fund Inc. (the Fund) is a closed-end diversified management investment company. The FundG??s investment objective is to achieve a high-level of current income that is exempt from federal income tax, consistent with the preservation of capital. In the normal course of business the Fund may enter into contracts that contain a variety of representations or that provide indemnification for certain liabilities. UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (UBS Global AM) serves as investment advisor and administrator of the Fund. UBS Global AM is an indirect wholly owned asset management subsidiary of UBS AG, an internationally diversified organization with headquarters in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland, and operations in areas of the financial services industry.

• 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.

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

Old National Bancorp (Old National) is a financial holding company. The Company, through its wholly owned banking subsidiary, provides a range of services, including commercial and consumer loan and depository services, investment and brokerage services, lease financing and other traditional banking services. Through its non-bank affiliates, Old National provides services to supplement the banking business, including fiduciary and wealth management services, insurance and other financial services. Old National operates in two segments: community banking and treasury. On February 1, 2007, the Company completed its acquisition of St. Joseph Capital Corporation (St. Joseph), a banking franchise.

• 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.

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

Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. is the parent company of The Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh (the Bank), a federally chartered stock savings bank. The Bank operates 21 full-service retail banking offices located in the New York City (NYC) boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, and in Nassau County, New York. The Bank?s principal business is gathering deposits from customers within its market area, and investing them primarily in multifamily residential mortgage loans, commercial real estate loans, one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, construction and land acquisition loans, consumer loans, mortgage-backed securities (MBS), obligations of the United States Government and Government Sponsored Entities (GSEs), and corporate debt and equity securities. The Bank?s revenues are derived principally from interest on its loan and securities portfolios and other short-term investments.

• SXT, SENSIENT TECH COR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 87.146660

Sensient Technologies Corporation is a global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors and fragrances. The Company?s principal products include flavors, flavor enhancers and bionutrients; fragrances and aroma chemicals; dehydrated vegetables and other food ingredients; natural and synthetic food colors; cosmetic and pharmaceutical additives; technical colors, inkjet colors and inks, and specialty dyes and pigments, and chemicals for laser printing and flat screen displays. The Company?s operations, except for the Asia Pacific Group, are managed on a products and services basis. It operates in two segments: Flavors and Fragrances Group, and the Color Group.

• LEO, DREYFUS STRA MUNI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 26.950283

Dreyfus Strategic Municipals, Inc. (the Fund) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund’s investment objective is to provide current income exempt from federal income tax. The Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in municipal obligations. The Fund invests at least 50% of its net assets in municipal bonds considered investment-grade or the unrated equivalent as determined by The Dreyfus Corporation (Dreyfus) in the case of bonds, and in the two highest rating categories or the unrated equivalent as determined by Dreyfus in the case of short-term obligations having or deemed to have maturities of less than one year. Its portfolio includes both long-term and short-term municipal investments. Dreyfus serves as the Fund’s investment advisor.

• 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.

• AGP, AMERIGROUP CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 225.436966

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

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• MT, ARCELOR MITTAL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 73.886269

ArcelorMittal is a global steel producer. The Company has steel-making operations in 20 countries on four continents, including 65 integrated, mini-mill and integrated mini-mill, steel-making facilities. It produces a range of finished and semi-finished carbon steel products and stainless steel products. Specifically, Mittal Steel produces flat products, including sheet and plate, long products, including bars, rods and structural shapes, and stainless steel products. The Company sells its products primarily in local markets and through its centralized marketing organization to a range of customers in approximately 170 countries, including the automotive, appliance, engineering, construction and machinery industries. Mittal Steel operates its business in six segments: Flat Carbon Americas; Flat Carbon Europe; Long Carbon Americas and Europe; Asia, Africa and CIS (AACIS); Stainless Steel, and Arcelor Mittal Steel Solutions and Services (trading and distribution).

• 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.

• UPL, ULTRA PETROLEUM C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 127.758949

Ultra Petroleum Corp. (Ultra) is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the development, production, operation, exploration and acquisition of oil and natural gas properties. The Company?s operations are primarily in the Green River Basin of southwest Wyoming. The Company continually evaluates other opportunities for the acquisition, exploration and development of oil and natural gas properties. As of December 31, 2007, Ultra owns interests in approximately 121,652 gross (62,756 net) acres in Wyoming covering approximately 230 square miles. The Company owns an interest in approximately 676 gross producing wells in this area and is operator of approximately 50% of the 676 gross wells. The Company owns interests in 252,629 gross acres in Pennsylvania. On October 22, 2007, the Company sold Sino-American Energy Corporation (Sino-American), which owned its Bohai Bay assets in China.

• APA, APACHE CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 178.394318

Apache Corporation is an independent energy company that explores for, develops and produces natural gas, crude oil and natural gas liquids. In North America, the Company’s exploration and production interests are focused in the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf Coast, East Texas, the Permian Basin, the Anadarko Basin and the Western Sedimentary Basin of Canada. Outside of North America, the Company has exploration and production interests onshore Egypt, offshore Western Australia, offshore the United Kingdom in the North Sea (North Sea), and onshore Argentina. It operates in six countries: the United States (Gulf Coast and Central regions), Canada, Egypt, Australia, offshore the United Kingdom in the North Sea and Argentina. The Company also holds interests in many of its United States, Canadian and other international properties through subsidiaries, including Apache Canada Ltd., DEK Energy Company (DEKALB), Apache Energy Limited (AEL), Apache North America, Inc. and Apache Overseas, 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.

• R, RYDER SYSTEM INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 121.216743

Ryder System, Inc. (Ryder) is a provider of transportation and supply chain management solutions. The Company operates in three segments: Fleet Management Solutions (FMS), which provides full-service leasing, contract maintenance, contract-related maintenance and commercial rental of trucks, tractors and trailers to customers principally in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom; Supply Chain Solutions (SCS), which provides supply chain solutions, including distribution and transportation services throughout North America, and in Latin America, Europe and Asia, and Dedicated Contract Carriage (DCC), which provides vehicles and drivers as part of a dedicated transportation solution in the United States. In September 2008, Ryder announced the completion of acquisition of the full service truck leasing, commercial truck rental and contract maintenance businesses of Gordon Truck Leasing.

• UBB, UNIBANCO BRASILRS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1.280511

Unibanco-Uniao de Bancos Brasileiros S.A. (Unibanco) is a financial institutions in Brazil. The Company provides a range of financial products and services to a diversified individual and corporate customer base throughout Brazil. Unibanco?s business consists of five business segments: Retail, Wholesale, Treasury, Wealth Management, and Insurance and Pension Plans. On June 25, 2007, the Company announced the sale of a portion of its interest in Serasa S.A. (Serasa).

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

Murphy Oil Corporation (Murphy) is a worldwide oil and gas exploration and production company, with refining and marketing operations in the United States and the United Kingdom. Its operations are classified into two business activities: Exploration and Production, and Refining and Marketing. Murphy?s exploration and production activities are subdivided into six geographic segments, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Ecuador and all other countries. Murphy?s refining and marketing activities are subdivided into geographic segments for North America and United Kingdom. Murphy exited the gasoline retailing business in Canada during the year ended December 31, 2007.

• TRP, TRANSCANADA CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 55.040035

TransCanada Corporation (TransCanada) is a North American energy infrastructure company focused on pipelines and energy. At December 31, 2007, Pipelines accounted for approximately 53% of revenues and 73% of TransCanada?s total assets and the Energy business accounted for approximately 47% of revenues and 23% of TransCanada?s total assets. TransCanada?s business segments comprise Pipelines and Energy. Pipelines principally comprise the Company?s pipelines in Canada, the United States and Mexico, and its regulated natural gas storage operations in the United States. Energy includes the Company?s power operations, the non-regulated natural gas storage business and liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects. In August 2008, TransCanada announced that through its subsidiaries, it has acquired KeySpan-Ravenswood, LLC and KeySpan Ravenswood Services Corp. In September 2008, TransCanada acquired Bison Pipeline LLC from Northern Border Pipeline Company.

• FE, FIRSTENERGY CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 124.292145

FirstEnergy Corp. (FirstEnergy) is principally a holding company that holds, directly or indirectly, eight principal electric utility operating subsidiaries: Ohio Edison Company (OE), The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (CEI), The Toledo Edison Company (TE), Pennsylvania Power Company (Penn), American Transmission Systems, Inc. (ATSI), Jersey Central Power & Light Company (JCP&L), Metropolitan Edison Company (Met-Ed) and Pennsylvania Electric Company (Penelec). The Company?s revenues are primarily derived from electric service provided by its utility operating subsidiaries and the revenues of its other principal subsidiary, FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. FirstEnergy also holds all the common stock of other direct subsidiaries, including FirstEnergy Properties, Inc., FirstEnergy Ventures Corp., FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company, FirstEnergy Securities Transfer Company, GPU Diversified Holdings, LLC, GPU Telecom Services, Inc., GPU Nuclear, Inc. and FirstEnergy Service Company.

• KO, COCA COLA CO THE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 235.789154

The Coca-Cola Company is a manufacturer, distributor and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups in the world. Finished beverage products bearing its trademarks are sold in more than 200 countries. The Company markets nonalcoholic sparkling brands, which includes Diet Coke, Fanta and Sprite. Its business is nonalcoholic beverages, principally sparkling beverages, but also a variety of still beverages. The Company manufactures beverage concentrates and syrups, which it sells to bottling and canning operations, fountain wholesalers and some fountain retailers, as well as finished beverages, which it sells primarily to distributors. The Company owns or licenses more than 450 brands, including diet and light beverages, waters, enhanced waters, juices and juice drinks, teas, coffees, and energy and sports drinks.

• 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.

• SWN, SOUTHWESTERN ENER Current Caprock Strength Rating: 183.984299

Southwestern Energy Company is an independent energy company primarily engaged in the exploration for and production of natural gas within the United States. The Company also focuses on creating and capturing additional value through its natural gas gathering and marketing businesses, which it refers to as its Midstream Services. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company operated principally in three segments: Exploration and Production (E&P), Midstream Services and Natural Gas Distribution. In July 2008, the Company announced that it had closed the sale of its utility, Arkansas Western Gas Company, to SourceGas, LLC.

• PML, PIMCO MUNI INC FD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 8.180030

PIMCO Municipal Income Fund II (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund invests substantially all of its assets in a portfolio of municipal bonds, the interest from which is exempt from federal income tax. It also invests in residual interest municipal bonds/residual interest tax-exempt bonds. Allianz Global Investors Fund Management LLC serves as the Fund’s investment manager and is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Allianz Global Investors of America L.P (Allianz Global). Allianz Global is an indirect majority-owned subsidiary of Allianz SE. PIMCO Municipal Income Fund II’s sub-advisor is Pacific Investment Management Company LLC.

• MTD, METTLER TOLEDO IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 61.375210

Mettler-Toledo International Inc. is a global supplier of precision instruments and services. It is a provider of weighing instruments for use in laboratory, industrial and food retailing applications. It is also a provider of analytical instruments for use in life science, reaction engineering and real-time analytic systems used in drug and chemical compound development, and process analytics instruments used for inline measurement in production processes. In addition, the Company is a supplier of end-of-line inspection systems used in production and packaging for food, pharmaceutical and other industries. Its business is geographically diversified, with net sales during the year ended December 31, 2007, derived 43% from Europe, 38% from North and South America and 19% from Asia and other countries. The Company has five segments: U.S. Operations, Swiss Operations, Western European Operations, Chinese Operations and Other.

• 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.

• VLCCF, KNIGHTSBRIDGE TNK Current Caprock Strength Rating: 19.930265

Knightsbridge Tankers Limited (Knightsbridge) is an international tanker company with the primary business activity of international seaborne transportation of crude oil. The Company’s fleet consists of four double-hull very large crude oil carriers (VLCCs), one of which was built in 1996 and three of which were built in 1995. Each of the Vessels is owned by a subsidiary and is deployed on time charters operating worldwide. In addition to the VLCCs, Knightsbridge has contracted to acquire two Capesize bulk carriers under construction. The business of the Company is managed by ICB Shipping (Bermuda) Limited (the Manager), an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Frontline Ltd.

• NEM, NEWMONT MIN CP (H Current Caprock Strength Rating: 23.004967

Newmont Mining Corporation (Newmont) is primarily a gold producer with significant assets or operations in the United States, Australia, Peru, Indonesia, Ghana, Canada, Bolivia, New Zealand and Mexico. As of December 31, 2007, Newmont had proven and probable gold reserves of 86.5 million equity ounces and an aggregate land position of approximately 42,680 square miles (110,550 square kilometers). Newmont is also engaged in the production of copper, principally through its Batu Hijau operation in Indonesia. The Company has operating segments of Nevada, Yanacocha in Peru, Australia/New Zealand, Batu Hijau in Indonesia, Africa and Other Operations comprising smaller operations in Bolivia, Mexico and Canada. It also has a Merchant Banking Segment and an Exploration Segment. In March 2008, Newmont Mining B.C. Limited, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Newmont Mining Corporation, acquired the remaining interest in Miramar Mining Corporation.

• 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.

• ACG, ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 49.761440

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

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• FXI, ISHARES TR FTSE I Current Caprock Strength Rating: 16.772673
• BRS, BRISTOW GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: -0.767635

Bristow Group Inc. is a provider of helicopter services to the offshore energy industry with global operations. The Company has operations in offshore oil and gas producing regions, including North Sea, the United States Gulf of Mexico, Nigeria and Australia. It generated 76% of its revenues from international operations in fiscal year ended March 31, 2008. The Helicopter Services segment operations are conducted through three divisions, Western Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere and Global Training. Western Hemisphere includes North America, and South and Central America. Eastern Hemisphere includes Europe, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Other International and Eastern Hemisphere (EH) Centralized Operations. Global Training includes Bristow Academy. On November 2, 2007, it sold its Grasso business, which comprised its entire Production Management Services segment. As of March 31, 2008, it operated 406 aircrafts.

• ELNK, EARTHLINK INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 10.102737

EarthLink, Inc. provides Internet access and related value-added services to individual and business customers throughout the United States. The Company operates in two segments: Consumer Services and Business Services. The Consumer Services segment provides Internet access and related value-added services, such as dial-up and high-speed Internet access and voice services, to individual customers. The Business Services segment offers Internet access and related value-added services to businesses and communications carriers through its wholly owned subsidiary, New Edge Networks. These services include managed data networks, dedicated Internet access and Web hosting, among others. In August 2008, Virgin Mobile USA, Inc. announced that it has completed its acquisition of Helio, a joint venture between SK Telecom Co., Ltd. and EarthLink, Inc.

• HES, HESS CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 340.055023

Hess Corporation (Hess) is a global integrated energy company that operates in two segments: Exploration and Production (E&P) and Marketing and Refining (M&R). The E&P segment explores for, develops, produces, purchases, transports and sells crude oil and natural gas. These exploration and production activities take place principally in Algeria, Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Denmark, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Indonesia, Libya, Malaysia, Norway, Russia, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States. The M&R segment manufactures, purchases, transports, trades and markets refined petroleum products, natural gas and electricity. As of December 31, 2007, the Company owned a 50% interest in a refinery joint venture in the United States Virgin Islands, and another refining facility, terminals and retail gasoline stations located on the East Coast of the United States.

• 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.

• 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.

• DMND, DIAMOND FOODS IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 15.694626

Diamond Foods, Inc. (Diamond) is a branded food company specializing in processing, marketing and distributing culinary, snack, in-shell and ingredient nuts, and snack products. The Company offers all of its products in an array of packages to meet different market needs. Diamond sells its culinary nut products in packages that are smaller and more convenient to use than its traditional one-pound packages. Its snack nut products are sold in various on-the-go package styles, including resealable foil bags and resealable plastic containers. It also offers snack products in 20 ounce to 40 ounce polyethylene therephthalate (PET) containers and bags for the club channel. In September 2008, Diamond announced that it completed the acquisition of the Pop Secret popcorn business from General Mills, Inc.

• 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.

• K, KELLOGG CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 3.465094

Kellogg Company (Kellogg) together with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the manufacture and marketing of ready-to-eat cereal and convenience foods, such as cookies, crackers, toaster pastries, cereal bars, fruit snacks, frozen waffles and veggie foods. These products were, as of February 22, 2008, manufactured by Kellogg in 18 countries and marketed in more than 180 countries. Its cereal products are generally marketed under the Kellogg?s name, and are sold principally to the grocery trade through direct sales forces for resale to consumers. The Company uses broker and distribution arrangements for certain products. In January 2008, the Company announced that it has acquired The United Bakers Group, a cracker, biscuit and breakfast cereal producers. In June 2008, Kellogg announced that one of its majority-owned subsidiaries has acquired substantially all of the assets of Zhenghang Food Company Ltd. In September 2008, it acquired Specialty Cereals Pty Limited.

• 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.

• 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.

• CBZ, CBIZ INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 82.244987

CBIZ, Inc. provides professional business services primarily to small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as individuals, governmental entities, and non-profit enterprises throughout the United States and Toronto, Canada. CBIZ delivers its integrated services through four practice groups: Financial Services, Employee Services, Medical Management Professionals (MMP) and National Practices. Financial Services seeks to help clients manage their finances. Employee Services provides group health, property and casualty, COBRA/flex, retirement planning, wealth management, life insurance, human capital management and payroll and actuarial services. National Practices consists of managed networking and hardware services, health care and Information Technology consulting, software solutions, project management and mergers and acquisitions. MMP comprises coding and billing, accounts receivable management and full practice management services. On April 1, 2008, it acquired EFL Associates, Inc.

• AUY, YAMANA GOLD INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 145.119125

Yamana Gold Inc. (Yamana) is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and operation of mineral properties. Yamana?s principal product is gold. The Company has gold production, development stage properties, exploration properties and land positions in Brazil Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua and the United States. A total of 104,764 ounces of gold were produced by the Company?s mines during year ended December 31, 2007. During 2007, the Company?s projects include Chapada Mine (Brazil), Sao Francisco Mine (Brazil), Jacobina Mining Complex (Brazil), San Andres Mine (Honduras), Fazenda Brasileiro Mine (Brazil), Alumbrera Mine (Argentina), El Penon Mine (Chile), Minera Florida Mine (Chile) and Rossi Property (United States). On October 13, 2007, Yamana acquired Northern Orion Resources Inc. As of November 5, 2007, Yamana had acquired approximately 90% interest in Meridian Gold Inc.

• APD, AIR PRODUCTS CHEM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 83.468361

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. serves technology, energy, industrial and healthcare customers globally with a portfolio of products, services and solutions that include atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials, equipment and services. It is a supplier of hydrogen and helium, and has built positions in markets, such as semiconductor materials, refinery hydrogen, natural gas liquefaction, and advanced coatings and adhesives. It has six business segments: Merchant Gases, Tonnage Gases, Electronics and Performance Materials, Equipment and Energy, Healthcare and Chemicals. In May 2008, it acquired Goar, Allison & Associates (GAA), Inc. In July 2008, Ashland Inc. purchased the pressure-sensitive adhesive business and the atmospheric emulsions business from the Company. In August 2008, it acquired Harvest Energy Technology, Inc. In September 2008, the Company sold its United States healthcare businesses, A&J Care and COPD Services to Landauer Metropolitan Inc.

• NFX, NEWFIELD EXP COM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 7.669856

Newfield Exploration Company is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the exploration, development and acquisition of natural gas and crude oil properties. The Company?s domestic areas of operation include the Anadarko and Arkoma Basins of the Mid-Continent, the Rocky Mountains, onshore Texas and the Gulf of Mexico. Internationally, the Company is active in Malaysia and China. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company had proved reserves of 2.5 trillion cubic feet equivalents (Tcfe). Those reserves were 73% natural gas and 63% proved developed. It sold its shallow water Gulf of Mexico assets in 2007.

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

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Thermo Fisher) is engaged in serving science. The Company serves its customers through two principal brands: Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific. Thermo Scientific is its technology brand, offering customers a range of analytical instruments, as well as laboratory equipment, software, services, consumables and reagents to enable integrated laboratory workflow solutions. Its portfolio of products includes technologies for mass spectrometry, elemental analysis, molecular spectroscopy, sample preparation, informatics, fine- and high-purity chemistry production, cell culture, Ribonucleic Acid (RNA)-interference analysis, immunodiagnostic testing, microbiology, as well as environmental monitoring and process control. It operates in two business segments: Analytical Technologies and Laboratory Products and Services. In June 2008, the Company acquired the Analytical Technologies and Environment Instrumentation divisions of Chemito Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• NMO, NUVEEN MU MKT OPP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 12.084943

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