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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.

• BRLI, BIO-REFERENCE LAB Current Caprock Strength Rating: 30.119001

Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. is an independent regional clinical laboratory servicing the greater New York metropolitan area. The Company offers a list of laboratory testing services utilized by healthcare providers in the detection, diagnosis, evaluation, monitoring and treatment of diseases. It processes 3.7 million requisitions each year. The Company has a network of over 50 patient service centers for collection of patient specimens. In addition to the clinical testing operations, it operates a clinical knowledge management service through the PSIMedica business unit. It also operates a Web-based connectivity portal solution for laboratories and physicians, through the CareEvolve subsidiary. In 2007, the Company introduced genome-wide oligonucleotide microarray analysis testing useful for the diagnosis of among other conditions developmental disorders. In 2006, it acquired GeneDx, a diagnostic genetic testing laboratory providing services to customers.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

Silver Wheaton Corp. (Silver Wheaton) is a mining company with 100% of its revenue from the sale of silver. The Company?s principal product is silver that it has entered into five long-term silver contracts with Goldcorp (Luismin mines in Mexico and Penasquito project in Mexico), Lundin Mining (Zinkgruvan mine in Sweden), Glencore (Yauliyacu mine in Peru) and Hellas Gold (Stratoni mine in Greece), whereby Silver Wheaton acquires silver production from the counterparties. In July 2007, Silver Wheaton completed the acquisition from Goldcorp Inc. of 25% of the life of mine silver production from Goldcorp Inc.’s Penasquito project, located in Zacatecas, Mexico. As of December 31, 2007, the Company owned 12% units of Sabina Silver Corporation (Sabina). In July 2007, Silver Wheaton completed the acquisition from Goldcorp Inc. of 25% of the life of mine silver production from Goldcorp Inc.’s Penasquito project, located in Zacatecas, Mexico.

• MQY, BLACKROCK MUNIYIE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 35.532555

BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to provide a high level of current income exempt from federal income taxes by investing primarily in a portfolio of long-term, high-grade municipal obligations, the interest on which is exempt from federal income taxes. BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund, Inc. may invest in certain securities, whose income return is inversely related to changes in a floating interest rate (inverse floaters). The Fund may purchase and write call and put options. The Fund may also invest in swap agreements. The Fund?s investment advisor is BlackRock Advisors, LLC, which is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (Merrill Lynch) and The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. are the principal owners of BlackRock, Inc.

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

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

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

PAREXEL International Corporation (PAREXEL) is a biopharmaceutical services company, providing a range of capability in clinical research, medical communications services, consulting, and informatics and technology products and services to the worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. The Company?s product and service offerings include clinical trials management, data management, biostatistical analysis, medical communications services, clinical pharmacology, patient recruitment, regulatory and product development consulting, health policy and reimbursement, performance improvement, industry training and publishing, medical imaging services, interactive voice response systems (IVRS), clinical trial management systems (CTMS), Web-based portals, systems integration, patient diary applications, and other drug development services. In August 2008, PAREXEL completed the acquisition of ClinPhone plc.

• 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.

• NLY, ANNALY CAPITAL MA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 566.720886

Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (Annaly) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and manages a portfolio of mortgage-backed securities. It also owns, manages, and finances a portfolio of investment securities, including mortgage pass-through certificates, collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), agency callable debentures, and other securities representing interests in or obligations backed by pools of mortgage loans. Fixed Income Discount Advisory Company (FIDAC) is the wholly owned taxable REIT subsidiary of the Company. The Company is focused in generating net income for distribution to the stockholders from the spread between the interest income on the investment securities and the cost of borrowings to finance the acquisition of investment securities.

• CHU, CHINA UNICOM LTD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 363.561218

China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited, formerly China Unicom Limited, is an investment holding company. Together with its subsidiaries, the Company is engaged in the cellular business of global system for mobile (GSM) in 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China through China Unicom Corporation Limited, the provision of international and domestic long distance calls, data and Internet services, and other related telecommunication value-added businesses. As to its cellular business, the Company is a mobile telecommunications operator in the People?s Republic of China. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company operated in four segments: GSM Business, code division multiple access (CDMA) Business, Data and Internet Business, and Long Distance Business. On December 31, 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of its cellular businesses and GSM network assets in Guizhou Province. In October 2008, the Company completed the disposal of its CDMA business.

• WMGI, WRIGHT MEDICAL GR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 31.325432

Wright Medical Group, Inc. is a global orthopedic medical device company specializing in the design, manufacture and marketing of reconstructive joint devices and biologics products. The Company operates through Wright Medical Technology, Inc. and other operating subsidiaries. The Company offers products in four primary market sectors: knee reconstruction, hip reconstruction, extremity reconstruction and biologics. Biologics are used to replace damaged or diseased bone, to stimulate bone growth and to provide other biological solutions for surgeons and their patients. In April 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of INBONE Technologies, Inc.

• 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.

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

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

• 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 to produce foods for consumers and feed for animals. It has two segments: Seeds and Genomics, and Agricultural Productivity. In October 2008, the Company consummated the sale of its dairy business. In September 2007, Monsanto acquired Agroeste Sementes, a Brazilian corn seed company. Agroeste focuses on hybrid corn seed production and serves farmers throughout Brazil. In June 2008, it acquired De Ruiter and a related company. De Ruiter is a protected-culture vegetable seeds company based in the Netherlands with operations worldwide. In July 2008, the Company acquired Marmot, S.A., which operates Cristiani, a seed company.

• AIZ, ASSURANT INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 147.249084

Assurant, Inc. (Assurant) is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the Company provides specialized insurance products and related services in North America and selected international markets. Assurant provides creditor-placed homeowners insurance, manufactured housing homeowners insurance, debt protection administration, credit insurance, warranties and extended service contracts, individual health and small employer group health insurance, group dental insurance, group disability insurance, group life insurance and pre-funded funeral insurance. Assurant operates through five segments: Assurant Solutions, Assurant Specialty Property, Assurant Health, Assurant Employee Benefits, and Corporate and Other. The Corporate and Other segment includes activities of the holding company. In October 2008, Assurant announced that it has completed its acquisition of Signal Holdings LLC, a provider of wireless handset protection programs and repair services, from Trident II L.P.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• ARG, AIRGAS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.699491

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

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.

• 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.

• WMS, W M S INDS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 304.550018

WMS Industries Inc. (WMS) is a global provider of gaming products to the legalized gaming industry. WMS designs, manufactures and distributes gaming machines and video lottery terminals (VLTs). The Company also derives revenue from the sale of spare parts, conversion kits, amusement-with-prize (AWP) gaming machines, and from licensing its gaming themes (games) and other intellectual property to third parties. As of June 30, 2008, its primary manufacturing facility was located in the United States, with development or distribution offices in the United States, Argentina, Australia, China, Italy, South Africa, Spain and the United Kingdom. On July 19, 2007, it completed the acquisition Systems in Progress GmbH (SiP), an Austrian-based company focused on developing and selling gaming related systems, including linked progressive systems and slot accounting systems applicable for smaller international casino operators.

• KOP, KOPPERS HOLDINGS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 195.969543

Koppers Holdings Inc. is an integrated global provider of carbon compounds and commercial wood treatment products. Its products are used in a variety of applications in a range of end markets, including the aluminum, railroad, specialty chemical, utility, rubber and steel industries. It operates two principal businesses. Through its Carbon Materials and Chemicals business, the Company manufactures carbon pitch; phthalic anhydride; creosote and carbon black feedstock; carbon black; naphthalene, and furnace coke. Through its Railroad and Utility Products business, the Company supplies railroad crossties in North America. Its other commercial wood treatment products include utility poles for the electric and telephone utility industries. In October 2008, Koppers Holdings Inc. announced the completion of the sale of its metallurgical coke plant located in Monessen, Pennsylvania, to a wholly owned subsidiary of ArcelorMittal Holdings 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.

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

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

• HSIC, HENRY SCHEIN INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 151.201889

Henry Schein, Inc. is a distributor of healthcare products and services primarily to office-based healthcare practitioners in the combined North American and European markets. The Company serves more than 550,000 customers worldwide, including dental practitioners and laboratories, physician practices and animal health clinics, as well as government and other institutions. The Company has operations in the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The Company conducts its business through two segments: healthcare distribution and technology. Effective September 29, 2007, it acquired Software of Excellence International Ltd., a provider of clinical and practice management solutions. On August 29, 2007, it acquired W&J Dunlop, Ltd. In April 2008, the Company acquired Minerva Dental Limited.

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

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

• WYNN, WYNN RESORTS LTD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 11.379389

Wynn Resorts, Limited (Wynn Resorts) is a developer, owner and operator of destination casino resorts. It owns and operates two destination casino resorts: Wynn Las Vegas, on the Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Wynn Macau, located in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People?s Republic of China (Macau). The Company is also constructing Encore Suites at Wynn Las Vegas (Encore) and Wynn Diamond Suites at Wynn Macau. The Company?s segments include Wynn Las Vegas, which includes Encore, and Wynn Macau.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• MQY, BLACKROCK MUNIYIE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 35.532555

BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to provide a high level of current income exempt from federal income taxes by investing primarily in a portfolio of long-term, high-grade municipal obligations, the interest on which is exempt from federal income taxes. BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund, Inc. may invest in certain securities, whose income return is inversely related to changes in a floating interest rate (inverse floaters). The Fund may purchase and write call and put options. The Fund may also invest in swap agreements. The Fund?s investment advisor is BlackRock Advisors, LLC, which is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (Merrill Lynch) and The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. are the principal owners of BlackRock, Inc.

• WYNN, WYNN RESORTS LTD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 11.379389

Wynn Resorts, Limited (Wynn Resorts) is a developer, owner and operator of destination casino resorts. It owns and operates two destination casino resorts: Wynn Las Vegas, on the Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Wynn Macau, located in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People?s Republic of China (Macau). The Company is also constructing Encore Suites at Wynn Las Vegas (Encore) and Wynn Diamond Suites at Wynn Macau. The Company?s segments include Wynn Las Vegas, which includes Encore, and Wynn Macau.

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

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

• 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.

• AIQ, ALLIANCE IMAGING Current Caprock Strength Rating: 25.709152

Alliance Imaging, Inc. is a provider of shared-service and fixed-site diagnostic imaging services. The Company?s principal sources of revenue are derived from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography and positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET and PET/CT). It provides imaging and therapeutic services primarily to hospitals and other healthcare providers on a shared-service and full-time service basis. The Company also provides services through a number of fixed sites primarily to hospitals or health systems. The Company?s services normally include the use of its imaging systems, technologists to operate the systems, equipment maintenance and upgrades and management of day-to-day shared-service and fixed-site diagnostic imaging operations. It also provides non scan-based services, which includes only the use of its imaging systems under a short-term contract. In July 2008, the Company acquired Medical Outsourcing Services, LLC.

• 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.

• VIVO, MERIDIAN BIOSCIEN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 237.487747

Meridian Bioscience, Inc. is a fully integrated life science company. The Company?s principal businesses are the development, manufacture, sale and distribution of diagnostic test kits, primarily for certain respiratory, gastrointestinal, viral and parasitic infectious diseases; the manufacture and distribution of bulk antigens, antibodies, and reagents used by researchers and other diagnostic manufacturers, and the contract development and manufacture of proteins and other biologicals for use by biopharmaceutical and biotechnology companies engaged in research for new drugs and vaccines. Meridian?s primary source of domestic and international revenues is core diagnostic products, which represented 80% of consolidated net sales during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007 (fiscal 2007). It has three business segments: US Diagnostics, European Diagnostics, and Life Science.

• TECH, TECHNE CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 108.706253

Techne Corporation, along with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the development and manufacture of biotechnology products and hematology calibrators and controls. These activities are conducted through its wholly owned subsidiary, Research and Diagnostic Systems, Inc (R&D Systems). It distributes biotechnology products in Europe through its subsidiary, R&D Systems Europe Ltd. (R&D Europe). R&D Systems Europe Ltd. has a sales subsidiary, R&D Systems GmbH, in Germany. It operates in three segments: biotechnology, R&D Systems Europe and hematology. The biotechnology segment consists of R&D Systems Biotechnology Division, Fortron Bio Science, Inc. (Fortron), BiosPacific, Inc. and R&D Systems China Co. Ltd. (R&D China), which develop, manufacture and sell biotechnology research and diagnostic products. R&D Systems Europe distributes Biotechnology Division products throughout Europe. The hematology segment develops and manufactures hematology controls and calibrators for sale worldwide.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A.B. de C.V. (Coca-Cola FEMSA) is a bottler of Coca-Cola trademark beverages in Latin America. The Company operates in territories, including Mexico, a substantial portion of central Mexico (including Mexico City) and southeast Mexico (including the Gulf region); Central America, Guatemala (Guatemala City and surrounding areas), Nicaragua (nationwide), Costa Rica (nationwide) and Panama (nationwide); Colombia; Venezuela; Argentina, Buenos Aires and surrounding areas, and Brazil, the area of greater Sao Paulo, Campinas, Santos, the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and part of the state of Goias. On May 30, 2008, the Company entered into a purchase agreement with The Coca-Cola Company to acquire its wholly owned bottling franchise located in the state of Minas Gerais (Refrigerantes Minas Gerais Ltda., or REMIL) in Brazil. On December 21, 2007, and on May 30, 2008, it sold to The Coca-Cola Company most of its brands.

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

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

• CVD, COVANCE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 154.708130

Covance Inc. is a drug development services company providing a range of early-stage and late-stage product development services on a worldwide basis primarily to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The Company also provides laboratory testing services to the chemical, agrochemical and food industries. Covance maintains offices in more than 20 countries. The services it provides constitute two segments: early development services, which include preclinical services and clinical pharmacology services, and late-stage development services, which include central laboratory, clinical development, periapproval and market access services. Covance Inc. provides product development services on a global basis to, among others, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company served in excess of 300 biopharmaceutical companies.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• TRE, TANZANIAN ROYALTY Current Caprock Strength Rating: 9.442011

Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation is a mineral resource company with exploration stage properties. The Company is engaged in the search for mineral deposits and that the properties are not in development or production. The Company?s general area of interest has been in the exploration of gold properties, with a primary focus on exploring for gold properties in Tanzania. As of August 31, 2007, the Company was exploring 136 mineral resource properties in the Lake Victoria Greenstone Belt and Kabanga/Kagera Nickel Belt regions of Tanzania. It has royalty agreements with three industry partners covering 17 prospecting licenses; one of these prospecting licenses is under agreement with Barrick Gold Corporation; five prospecting licenses with MDN Inc., and 11 with Sloane Developments Inc.

• EGN, ENERGEN CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 80.369156

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

• MYD, BLACKROCK MUNIYIE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 30.770908

Blackrock Muniyield Fund Inc. (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s investment objective is to provide current income exempt from federal income taxes. It invests primarily in a portfolio of long-term, investment-grade municipal obligations, the interest on which is exempt from federal income taxes. The Fund may invest in certain securities, whose income return is inversely related to changes in a floating interest rate (inverse floaters). It may also invest in swap agreements. The Fund invests in sectors, such as transportation, hospital, power, education, housing, and water and sewer. The Fund?s investment manager is BlackRock Advisors, LLC, an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. BlackRock Investment Management, LLC, an affiliate of BlackRock Advisors, LLC, serves as the Fund?s sub-advisor.

• SYK, STRYKER CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 4.098660

Stryker Corporation (Stryker) is a medical technology company with a range of products in orthopaedics and a presence in other medical specialties. The Company’s products include implants used in joint replacement, trauma, spinal and craniomaxillofacial surgeries; biologics; surgical, neurologic, ear, nose and throat (ENT), and interventional pain equipment; endoscopic, surgical navigation, communications and digital imaging systems, as well as patient handling and emergency medical equipment. The Company segregates its operations into two business segments: Orthopaedic Implants and MedSurg Equipment. In June 2007, the Company completed the sale of its outpatient physical therapy business, Physiotherapy Associates, to Water Street Healthcare Partners.

• WGL, WGL HOLDINGS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 23.206200

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

• NTT, NIPPON TELEPHONE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 9.992891

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is a Japan-based telecommunications provider offering fixed and mobile voice related services, Internet protocol (IP)/packet communications services and system integration services. The Company primarily operates in five business segments. The regional communications segment is engaged in the provision of domestic intra-prefectural communication services and incidental services. The long distance and international communications segment is engaged in the provision of domestic inter-prefectural and international communication services and incidental services. The mobile communications segment is engaged in the provision of mobile phones services and other related services. The data communications segment is engaged in the provision of system integration and network system services, among others. The others segment is engaged in the city development and financial businesses.

• HP, HELMERICH PAYNE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 111.265259

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. is primarily engaged in contract drilling of oil and gas wells for others. The contract drilling business accounts for almost all of the Company’s operating revenues. It is also engaged in the ownership, development and operation of commercial real estate. It is organized into two separate operating entities: contract drilling and real estate. The Company’s contract drilling business consists of three business segments: U.S. land drilling, offshore platform drilling and international drilling. The Company’s U.S. land drilling is conducted primarily in Oklahoma, California, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, New Mexico, and North Dakota, and offshore from platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, California, Trinidad and Equatorial Guinea. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, the Company’s international land segment operated in seven international locations: Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia, Tunisia and Chile.

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

Donaldson Company, Inc. (Donaldson) is a worldwide manufacturer of filtration systems and replacement parts. The Company?s product mix includes air and liquid filtration systems and exhaust and emission control products. Products are manufactured at 39 plants worldwide and through three joint ventures. The Company has two reporting segments: Engine Products and Industrial Products. Products in the Engine Products segment consist of air filtration systems, exhaust and emissions systems, liquid filtration systems and replacement parts. Products in the Industrial Products segment consist of dust, fume and mist collectors, compressed air purification systems, liquid filtration systems, static and pulse-clean air filter systems for gas turbines, and specialized air filtration systems for diverse applications including computer disk drives. The Company acquired on LMC West, Inc. on February 4, 2008. In October 2008, the Company acquired Western Filter Corporation.

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

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

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

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

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

MFS Government Markets Income Trust (the Fund) is a closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s investment objective is to seek high current income, but it may also consider capital appreciation. The Fund?s portfolio of investments includes mortgage-backed securities, the United States government agencies, emerging market bonds, high grade corporates, municipal bonds, commercial mortgage-backed securities and the United States treasury securities. The Fund normally invests at least 80% of the Fund?s net assets in the United States and non-United States government securities. Massachusetts Financial Services Company serves as the investment adviser of the Fund.

• 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.

• LUK, LEUCADIA NATL CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 110.056374

Leucadia National Corporation (Leucadia) is a diversified holding company engaged in a variety of businesses, including manufacturing, telecommunications, property management and services, gaming entertainment, real estate activities, medical product development and winery operations. The Company also owns equity interests in operating businesses and investment partnerships, including a broker-dealer engaged in making markets and trading of high yield and special situation securities, land-based contract oil and gas drilling, real estate activities and development of a copper mine in Spain. The Company?s operating segments include Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Property Management and Services, Domestic Real Estate, Medical Product Development and Other Operations. In June 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of ResortQuest International, Inc. In March 2007, the Company?s 75% owned subsidiary, STi Prepaid, LLC, acquired the assets of Telco Group, Inc. and its affiliates.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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

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

• CEDC, CENTRAL EURO DIS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 207.648300

Central European Distribution Corporation (CEDC) is an integrated spirit beverages business. The Company produces vodka at two distilleries in Poland and is a distributor of alcoholic beverages. The Company is also an importer of spirits, wine and beer in Poland. Its products are also exported out of Poland. CEDC offers a portfolio of alcoholic beverages with over 700 brands. In July 2007, the Company acquired 100% of the PHS Sp. z o.o., an alcohol distributor located in western Poland. In May 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of a 49.9% voting interest and a 75% economic interest in the Whitehall Group.

• LTC, L T C PROP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 131.236832

LTC Properties, Inc. is a healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests primarily in long-term care and other healthcare related properties through mortgage loans, property lease transactions and other investments. The Company invests in properties that provide opportunity for additional value and diversifies its investment portfolio by geographic location, operator and form of investment. The Company provides mortgage financing on such properties based on established investment underwriting criteria. At December 31, 2007, the Company?s direct real estate investment portfolio (properties that it own or on which it holds promissory notes secured by first mortgages) consisted of investments in 108 skilled nursing properties with 12,724 beds, 94 assisted living properties with 4,449 units and two schools located in 29 states.

• WIA, WESTERN ASSET/CLA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 144.874588

Western Asset/Claymore Inflation-Linked Securities & Income Fund (the Fund), formerly Western Asset/Claymore U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Fund, is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund’s primary investment objective is to provide current income. Its secondary investment objective is capital appreciation.

• ARG, AIRGAS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.699491

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

• ESRX, EXPRESS SCRIPTS C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 61.213497

Express Scripts, Inc. is a pharmacy benefit management (PBM) in North America. The Company provides a range of services to its clients, which include health maintenance organizations (HMOs), health insurers, third-party administrators, employers, union-sponsored benefit plans, workers? compensation plans and government health programs. The Company operates in two segments: Pharmacy Benefit Management Services (PBM) and Specialty and Ancillary Services (SAAS). Its PBM services include retail network pharmacy management; retail drug card programs; home delivery pharmacy services; benefit design consultation; drug utilization review; specialty services; drug formulary management programs, and compliance and therapy management programs for its clients. SAAS segment consists of the specialty operations of CuraScript, Inc. (CuraScript), and its Specialty Distribution Services (SDS) and Phoenix Marketing Group LLC (PMG) lines of business.

• RIO, COMPANHIA VALE AD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 161.841156

Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale) is a metals and mining company. The Company is also a producer of iron ore and iron ore pellets. It also produces bauxite, alumina, aluminum, copper, coal, cobalt, precious metals, potash and other products. Vale operates logistics systems in Brazil, including railroads, maritime terminals and a port, which are integrated with its mining operations. Directly and through affiliates and joint ventures, the Company has investments in the energy and steel businesses. The Company?s principal nickel mines and processing operations are carried out by its subsidiary Vale Inco Limited (Vale Inco), with mining operations in Canada and Indonesia. Vale operates or have interests in nickel refining facilities in the United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and China. In April 2007, Vale acquired 100% of AMCI Holdings Australia Pty and formally renamed it Vale Australia Holdings (Vale Australia).

• SY, SYBASE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 55.381767

Sybase, Inc. (Sybase) is an enterprise software company delivering on the Unwired Enterprise vision by managing, integrating and mobilizing data from multiple sources, and making decision-ready information easily accessible at the point of action. Sybase delivers a range of solutions to ensure that customer information is managed and mobilized to the point of action, including enterprise and mobile databases, middleware, synchronization, encryption and device management software, and mobile messaging services. Its business is organized into three principal operating segments, Infrastructure Platform Group (IPG), iAnywhere Solutions, Inc. (iAS) and Sybase 365, Inc. (Sybase 365).

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

MFS Government Markets Income Trust (the Fund) is a closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s investment objective is to seek high current income, but it may also consider capital appreciation. The Fund?s portfolio of investments includes mortgage-backed securities, the United States government agencies, emerging market bonds, high grade corporates, municipal bonds, commercial mortgage-backed securities and the United States treasury securities. The Fund normally invests at least 80% of the Fund?s net assets in the United States and non-United States government securities. Massachusetts Financial Services Company serves as the investment adviser of the Fund.

• 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.

• LUK, LEUCADIA NATL CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 110.056374

Leucadia National Corporation (Leucadia) is a diversified holding company engaged in a variety of businesses, including manufacturing, telecommunications, property management and services, gaming entertainment, real estate activities, medical product development and winery operations. The Company also owns equity interests in operating businesses and investment partnerships, including a broker-dealer engaged in making markets and trading of high yield and special situation securities, land-based contract oil and gas drilling, real estate activities and development of a copper mine in Spain. The Company?s operating segments include Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Property Management and Services, Domestic Real Estate, Medical Product Development and Other Operations. In June 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of ResortQuest International, Inc. In March 2007, the Company?s 75% owned subsidiary, STi Prepaid, LLC, acquired the assets of Telco Group, Inc. and its affiliates.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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

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

• CEDC, CENTRAL EURO DIS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 207.648300

Central European Distribution Corporation (CEDC) is an integrated spirit beverages business. The Company produces vodka at two distilleries in Poland and is a distributor of alcoholic beverages. The Company is also an importer of spirits, wine and beer in Poland. Its products are also exported out of Poland. CEDC offers a portfolio of alcoholic beverages with over 700 brands. In July 2007, the Company acquired 100% of the PHS Sp. z o.o., an alcohol distributor located in western Poland. In May 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of a 49.9% voting interest and a 75% economic interest in the Whitehall Group.

• LTC, L T C PROP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 131.236832

LTC Properties, Inc. is a healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests primarily in long-term care and other healthcare related properties through mortgage loans, property lease transactions and other investments. The Company invests in properties that provide opportunity for additional value and diversifies its investment portfolio by geographic location, operator and form of investment. The Company provides mortgage financing on such properties based on established investment underwriting criteria. At December 31, 2007, the Company?s direct real estate investment portfolio (properties that it own or on which it holds promissory notes secured by first mortgages) consisted of investments in 108 skilled nursing properties with 12,724 beds, 94 assisted living properties with 4,449 units and two schools located in 29 states.

• WIA, WESTERN ASSET/CLA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 144.874588

Western Asset/Claymore Inflation-Linked Securities & Income Fund (the Fund), formerly Western Asset/Claymore U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Fund, is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund’s primary investment objective is to provide current income. Its secondary investment objective is capital appreciation.

• ARG, AIRGAS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.699491

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

• ESRX, EXPRESS SCRIPTS C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 61.213497

Express Scripts, Inc. is a pharmacy benefit management (PBM) in North America. The Company provides a range of services to its clients, which include health maintenance organizations (HMOs), health insurers, third-party administrators, employers, union-sponsored benefit plans, workers? compensation plans and government health programs. The Company operates in two segments: Pharmacy Benefit Management Services (PBM) and Specialty and Ancillary Services (SAAS). Its PBM services include retail network pharmacy management; retail drug card programs; home delivery pharmacy services; benefit design consultation; drug utilization review; specialty services; drug formulary management programs, and compliance and therapy management programs for its clients. SAAS segment consists of the specialty operations of CuraScript, Inc. (CuraScript), and its Specialty Distribution Services (SDS) and Phoenix Marketing Group LLC (PMG) lines of business.

• RIO, COMPANHIA VALE AD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 161.841156

Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale) is a metals and mining company. The Company is also a producer of iron ore and iron ore pellets. It also produces bauxite, alumina, aluminum, copper, coal, cobalt, precious metals, potash and other products. Vale operates logistics systems in Brazil, including railroads, maritime terminals and a port, which are integrated with its mining operations. Directly and through affiliates and joint ventures, the Company has investments in the energy and steel businesses. The Company?s principal nickel mines and processing operations are carried out by its subsidiary Vale Inco Limited (Vale Inco), with mining operations in Canada and Indonesia. Vale operates or have interests in nickel refining facilities in the United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and China. In April 2007, Vale acquired 100% of AMCI Holdings Australia Pty and formally renamed it Vale Australia Holdings (Vale Australia).

• SY, SYBASE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 55.381767

Sybase, Inc. (Sybase) is an enterprise software company delivering on the Unwired Enterprise vision by managing, integrating and mobilizing data from multiple sources, and making decision-ready information easily accessible at the point of action. Sybase delivers a range of solutions to ensure that customer information is managed and mobilized to the point of action, including enterprise and mobile databases, middleware, synchronization, encryption and device management software, and mobile messaging services. Its business is organized into three principal operating segments, Infrastructure Platform Group (IPG), iAnywhere Solutions, Inc. (iAS) and Sybase 365, Inc. (Sybase 365).

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• FRO, FRONTLINE LTD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 48.227261

Frontline Ltd. (Frontline) is engaged primarily in the ownership and operation of oil tankers, including oil/bulk/ore (OBO) carriers. The Company operates tankers of two sizes: very large crude carriers (VLCCs), which are between 200,000 and 320,000 deadweight tons (dwt), and Suezmaxes, which are vessels between 120,000 and 170,000 dwt. As of February 29, 2008, the Company operated a tanker fleet consisting of 76 vessels. The fleet consists of 42 VLCCs, which are either owned or chartered in, 20 Suezmax tankers, which are either owned or chartered in, eight Suezmax OBOs, which are chartered in, and five VLCCs, and one Aframax tanker under its commercial management. In January 2008, the Company established Independent Tankers Corporation Limited (ITCL), as a wholly owned subsidiary for the purpose of holding, by way of contribution, its interests in Independent Tankers Corporation (ITC). In March 2008, Frontline spun off 20% of ITCL to its shareholders.

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

Senior Housing Properties Trust (Senior Housing) is a real estate investment trust (REIT). As of December 31, 2007, the Company owned 202 properties located in 32 states. Senior apartments are marketed to residents, who are capable of caring for themselves. Residence is usually restricted on the basis of age. Independent living properties, or congregate care communities, also provide privacy to residents and require residents to be independent. Assisted living properties have one bedroom units, which include private bathrooms and efficiency kitchens. Services bundled within one charge usually include three meals per day in a central dining room, daily housekeeping, laundry, medical reminders and 24-hour availability of assistance with the activities of daily living, such as dressing and bathing. Professional nursing and healthcare services are available at the property on call or at regularly scheduled times.

• MLNM, MILLENNIUM PHARM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 133.557907

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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

MFS Multimarket Income Trust (the Trust) is a closed-end fund and maintains a portfolio that includes investments in investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds, United States Government securities, and international investment-grade and emerging markets debt securities. The Trust’s investment objective is to seek high-current income, but may also consider capital appreciation. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2007, shares of the Trust provided a total return of 5.19%, at net asset value, underperforming the Multimarket Income Trust Blended Index, the EMBI Global, Government/Mortgage and United States High-Yield indices. The Trust is managed by Massachusetts Financial Services Company (MFS).

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

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

• 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.

• TNS, TNS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 44.113876

TNS, Inc. (TNS) is a global data communications company, which provides networking, data communications and value-added services. Its secure networks are used by retailers, banks/processors, telecommunications companies and financial markets. TNS has designed and implemented multiple data networks each created specifically for the transport of transaction-oriented data. TNS’ networks support a variety of communications protocols and are designed to be scalable and accessible by multiple methods. TNS has offices throughout the world, serving customers in 28 countries with the ability to provide services in other countries. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company transported approximately 5.8 billion dial-up transactions for more than 130 point-of-sale/point-of-service (POS), processing customers in the United States and Canada. In addition, as of December 31, 2007, it provided network services to more than 575 financial services companies.

• DE, DEERE CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 353.266449

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• CHU, CHINA UNICOM LTD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 363.561218

China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited, formerly China Unicom Limited, is an investment holding company. Together with its subsidiaries, the Company is engaged in the cellular business of global system for mobile (GSM) in 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China through China Unicom Corporation Limited, the provision of international and domestic long distance calls, data and Internet services, and other related telecommunication value-added businesses. As to its cellular business, the Company is a mobile telecommunications operator in the People?s Republic of China. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company operated in four segments: GSM Business, code division multiple access (CDMA) Business, Data and Internet Business, and Long Distance Business. On December 31, 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of its cellular businesses and GSM network assets in Guizhou Province. In October 2008, the Company completed the disposal of its CDMA business.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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• 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. In October 2008, the Company acquired HealthMedia, Inc.

• AXS, AXIS CAP HLDGS LT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 19.647703

AXIS Capital Holdings Limited is a Bermuda-based holding company for the AXIS group of companies. Through its various operating subsidiaries and branches, the Company provides a range of insurance and reinsurance products to insureds and reinsureds worldwide with operations in Bermuda, Europe, Singapore and the United States. Its business consists of two global underwriting platforms: AXIS Insurance and AXIS Re. AXIS Insurance is organised into four divisions managed across all geographic locations: Specialty Lines, Professional Lines, Capital Risk Solutions and AXIS Select Markets. The Company operates through two business segments: insurance and reinsurance. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company purchased the assets of the Media Professional Division (Media Pro) of MPI Insurance Agency, Inc., an Aon Group, Inc. subsidiary.

• GTIV, GENTIVA HLTH SVCS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 79.817291

Gentiva Health Services, Inc. (Gentiva) provides home health services throughout the United States. On February 28, 2006, the Company completed the acquisition of The Healthfield Group, Inc., a regional provider of home healthcare, hospice and related services with approximately 130 locations primarily in eight southeastern states. On February 29, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of Home Health Care Affiliates, Inc., a provider of home health and hospice services, which operates under the names Gilbert?s Home Health and Gilbert?s Hospice Care in 14 locations in the state of Mississippi. The Company operates in three business segments: Home Health, CareCentrix and Other Related Services. The Other Related Services segment encompasses the Company?s hospice, respiratory therapy, home medical equipment (HME), infusion therapy and consulting services businesses. In September 2008, Gentiva completed the sale of 69% of its CareCentrix unit to Water Street Healthcare Partners.

• CFR, CULLEN FROST BNKR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.610909

Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. (Cullen/Frost) is a financial holding company and a bank holding company that provides, through its subsidiaries, a range of products and services throughout numerous Texas markets. The segments of the Company include the Banking and the Financial Management Group. The Company offers commercial and consumer banking services, as well as trust and investment management, investment banking, insurance, brokerage, leasing, asset-based lending, treasury management and item processing services. During the year ended December 31, 2007, (fiscal 2007) Cullen/Frost had consolidated total assets of $13.5 billion. It serves a range of industries, including among others, energy, manufacturing, services, construction, retail, telecommunications, healthcare, military and transportation. In fiscal 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of Prime Benefits, Inc.

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

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

• KNSY, KENSEY NASH CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 20.144695

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• STJ, ST. JUDE MEDICAL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 14.876364

St. Jude Medical, Inc. (St. Jude) develops, manufactures and distributes cardiovascular medical devices for the global cardiac rhythm management, cardiology and cardiac surgery and atrial fibrillation therapy areas and implantable neurostimulation devices for the management of chronic pain. The Company operates in four business segments: Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM), Cardiovascular (CV), Atrial Fibrillation (AF) and Advanced Neuromodulation Systems (ANS). During the fiscal year ended December 29, 2007 (fiscal 2007), St. Jude combined its former Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology operating segments to form the CV operating segment, which focuses on the cardiac surgery and cardiology therapy areas. The principal geographic markets for its products are the United States, Europe, Japan and Asia Pacific. In July 2008, the Company completed the previously announced acquisition of EP MedSystems, Inc.

• BG, BUNGE LTD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 295.490662

Bunge Limited (Bunge) is an agribusiness and food company operating in the farm-to-consumer food chain. The Company conducts its operations through three divisions: agribusiness, fertilizer and food products. These divisions include four segments: agribusiness, fertilizer, edible oil products and milling products. The agribusiness division is involved in the purchase, storage, transport, processing and sale of agricultural commodities and commodity products. The fertilizer division provides farmers with a range of products and services, including crop nutrients, and sells raw materials to other fertilizer manufacturers and animal nutrients to livestock producers. The food products division consists of two business segments: edible oil products, such as edible oils, shortenings, margarines and mayonnaise, and milling products, such as wheat flours and corn products. In September 2008, Bunge acquired a 60% interest in Monteverde Agroenergetica SA.

• GWR, GENESEE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 46.379402

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. 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, it ceased operations in Mexico. In April 2008, it acquired Rotterdam Rail Feeding (RRF). In June 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of CAGY Industries, Inc. In October 2008, the Company acquired 10 short line railroads known as the Ohio Central Railroad System.

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

• NWSB, NORTHWEST BANCORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 93.044609

Northwest Bancorp, Inc. is a holding company of Northwest Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a community-oriented institution offering traditional deposit and loan products, and through a wholly owned subsidiary, consumer finance services. As of December 31, 2007, the primary activity of the Company was the ownership of all of the issued and outstanding common stock of the Bank. As of December 31, 2007, through the Bank, Northwest Bancorp, Inc. operated 166 community-banking offices throughout its market area in northwest, southwest and central Pennsylvania, western New York, eastern Ohio, Maryland and Florida. The Company, through the Bank and its wholly owned subsidiaries, also operates 49 consumer finance offices throughout Pennsylvania and two consumer finance offices in New York. Northwest Bancorp, Inc. focuses its lending activities primarily on the origination of loans secured by first mortgages on owner-occupied, one- to four-family residences.

• 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.

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

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

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

Kendle International Inc. is a global clinical research organization (CRO) that provides a range of Phase I-IV global clinical development services to the biopharmaceutical industry. The Company augments the research and development activities of biopharmaceutical companies by offering clinical research services and information technology designed to reduce drug development time and expense. It delivers integrated clinical development services, including clinical trial management, clinical data management, statistical analysis, medical writing, regulatory consulting and organizational meeting management and publications services on a contract basis. Its Early Stage business focuses on the Company?s Phase I operations, while Late Stage is comprised of clinical development services related to Phases II through IV clinical trials, regulatory affairs and biometrics offerings. In June 2008, the Company announced the acquisition of DecisionLine Clinical Research Corporation.

• 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.

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• VTR, VENTAS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 118.689217

Ventas, Inc. a real estate investment trust (REIT) with a portfolio of seniors housing and healthcare-related properties in the United States and Canada. As of December 31, 2007, this portfolio consisted of 519 assets, 253 seniors housing communities, 197 skilled nursing facilities, 42 hospitals and 27 medical office, and other properties in 43 states and two Canadian provinces, including 77 seniors housing communities the Company acquired from Sunrise Senior Living Real Estate Investment Trust (Sunrise REIT) on April 26, 2007. With the exception of its medical office buildings (MOBs) and 79 of Ventas, Inc.?s seniors housing communities that are managed by Sunrise Senior Living, Inc. (Sunrise) pursuant to long-term management agreements, it leases these properties to healthcare operating companies under triple-net or absolute-net leases, which require the tenants to pay all property-related expenses.

• 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 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. In October 2008, Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. announced the completion of its investment in Gannett Welsh & Kotler, LLC (GW&K). As part of the transaction, the Company purchased the entire ownership interest in GW&K from BNY Mellon.

• BUCY, BUCYRUS INTL CL A Current Caprock Strength Rating: 196.695038

Bucyrus International, Inc. designs, manufactures mining equipment for the extraction of coal, copper, oil sands, iron ore and other minerals in mining centers throughout the world. In addition to the manufacture of original equipment, the Company also provides the aftermarket replacement parts and service for equipment. The Company operates in two business segments: surface mining and underground mining. The Company?s manufacturing facilities include Australia, China, Germany, Poland and the United States, and service and sales centers include Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, England, India, Mexico, Peru, Russia, South Africa and the United States. The Company?s surface mining equipment includes draglines, electric mining shovels and rotary blasthole drills. In May 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of DBT GmbH, a subsidiary of RAG Coal International AG.

• 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.

• MCRS, MICROS SYSTEMS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 65.635223

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

• QGEN, QIAGEN NV Current Caprock Strength Rating: 186.214981

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

• 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.

• SYK, STRYKER CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 4.098660

Stryker Corporation (Stryker) is a medical technology company with a range of products in orthopaedics and a presence in other medical specialties. The Company’s products include implants used in joint replacement, trauma, spinal and craniomaxillofacial surgeries; biologics; surgical, neurologic, ear, nose and throat (ENT), and interventional pain equipment; endoscopic, surgical navigation, communications and digital imaging systems, as well as patient handling and emergency medical equipment. The Company segregates its operations into two business segments: Orthopaedic Implants and MedSurg Equipment. In June 2007, the Company completed the sale of its outpatient physical therapy business, Physiotherapy Associates, to Water Street Healthcare Partners.

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

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

• AME, AMETEK INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 14.285336

AMETEK, Inc. (AMETEK) is a manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices with operations in North America, Europe, Asia and South America. The Company markets its products worldwide through two operating groups, the Electronic Instruments Group (EIG) and the Electromechanical Group (EMG). EIG builds monitoring, testing, calibration and display devices for the process, aerospace, industrial and power markets. EMG is a supplier of electromechanical devices. EMG produces engineered electromechanical connectors for hermetic (moisture-proof) applications, specialty metals for niche markets, and brushless air-moving motors, blowers, and heat exchangers. In April 2008, the Company acquired Reading Alloys. In June 2008, the Company announced the acquisition of Vision Research, Inc. In August 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of the programmable power business of Xantrex Technology, Inc.

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

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

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

CVS Caremark Corporation (CVS Caremark) is a provider of prescriptions and related healthcare services in the United States. The Company fills or manages more than one billion prescriptions annually. As a fully integrated pharmacy services company, CVS Caremark drives value for its customers by managing pharmaceutical costs and improving healthcare outcomes through its approximately 6,200 CVS/pharmacy retail stores; CVS Caremark?s pharmacy benefit management, mail order and specialty pharmacy division, Caremark Pharmacy Services; its retail-based health clinic subsidiary, MinuteClinic, and the Company?s online pharmacy, CVS.com. Effective March 22, 2007, the Company closed its merger with Caremark Rx, Inc. Following the Caremark Merger, the Company changed its name to CVS Caremark Corporation. CVS Caremark operates two business segments: Retail Pharmacy and Pharmacy Services. As of October 16, 2008, the Company had acquired approximately 77.55% interest in Long Drug Stores Corporation.

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

MFS Multimarket Income Trust (the Trust) is a closed-end fund and maintains a portfolio that includes investments in investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds, United States Government securities, and international investment-grade and emerging markets debt securities. The Trust’s investment objective is to seek high-current income, but may also consider capital appreciation. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2007, shares of the Trust provided a total return of 5.19%, at net asset value, underperforming the Multimarket Income Trust Blended Index, the EMBI Global, Government/Mortgage and United States High-Yield indices. The Trust is managed by Massachusetts Financial Services Company (MFS).

• 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).

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

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

• CTRP, CTRIP.COM INTL LT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 158.403076

Ctrip.com International, Ltd. (Ctrip) is a travel service provider for hotel accommodations, airline tickets and packaged-tours in China. The Company also sells packaged-tours that include transportation and accommodations, as well as guided tours in some instances. Ctrip targets its services primarily at business and leisure travelers in China who do not travel in groups. It acts as agent in all of its transactions, and does not take inventory risks with respect to the hotel rooms and airline tickets booked through the Company. It derives its hotel reservation, air-ticketing and packaged-tour revenues through commissions from its travel suppliers, primarily based on the transaction value of the rooms, airline tickets and packaged-tour products, respectively, booked through its services.

• STLD, STEEL DYNAMICS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 168.864273

Steel Dynamics, Inc. is a steel producer. The Company, with its acquisition of OmniSource Corporation (OmniSource), is a scrap processor in the United States. During the year ended December 31, 2007, its consolidated shipments, excluding shipments between its operating divisions, totaled 6.2 million tons, which includes steel making, fabrication and scrap processing. On July 2, 2007, Steel Dynamics, Inc. purchased The Techs Holdings Inc. (The Techs), which is a flat-rolled steel galvanizing company that consists of three non-union galvanizing facilities: GalvTech, MetalTech and NexTech. On October 26, 2007, the Company completed its acquisition of OmniSource, a scrap recycling company. On June 10, 2008, Steel Dynamics, Inc. completed the previously announced transaction, wherein its wholly owned subsidiary OmniSource Corporation, through a wholly owned subsidiary, Carolina Investment Company, LLC, acquired the remaining stock of Recycle South, LLC.

• 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.

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

The Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s investment objective is long-term capital appreciation through investments primarily in equity securities of Indian Issuers. The Fund’s investment advisor is Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. The Fund invests in various holdings, including electrical equipment, commercial banks, information technology services, construction materials, wireless telecommunication services and short-term investments.

• FTI, FMC TECHNOLOGIES Current Caprock Strength Rating: 73.609726

FMC Technologies, Inc. (FMC Technologies) is a global provider of technology solutions for the energy industry and other industrial markets. The Company designs, manufactures and services systems and products, such as subsea production and processing systems, surface wellhead production systems, high-pressure fluid control equipment, measurement solutions, and marine loading systems for the oil and gas industry. During the year ended December 31, 2007, it operated in three business segments: Energy Systems (comprising Energy Production Systems and Energy Processing Systems); FoodTech, and Airport Systems. On July 31, 2008, FMC Technologies completed the spin-off of its FoodTech and Airport Systems businesses into John Bean Technologies Corporation.

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• 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.

• STLD, STEEL DYNAMICS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 168.864273

Steel Dynamics, Inc. is a steel producer. The Company, with its acquisition of OmniSource Corporation (OmniSource), is a scrap processor in the United States. During the year ended December 31, 2007, its consolidated shipments, excluding shipments between its operating divisions, totaled 6.2 million tons, which includes steel making, fabrication and scrap processing. On July 2, 2007, Steel Dynamics, Inc. purchased The Techs Holdings Inc. (The Techs), which is a flat-rolled steel galvanizing company that consists of three non-union galvanizing facilities: GalvTech, MetalTech and NexTech. On October 26, 2007, the Company completed its acquisition of OmniSource, a scrap recycling company. On June 10, 2008, Steel Dynamics, Inc. completed the previously announced transaction, wherein its wholly owned subsidiary OmniSource Corporation, through a wholly owned subsidiary, Carolina Investment Company, LLC, acquired the remaining stock of Recycle South, LLC.

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

Nabors Industries Ltd. (Nabors) is a land drilling contractor with approximately 535 land drilling rigs. The Company conducts oil, gas and geothermal land drilling operations in the United States Lower 48 states, Alaska, Canada, South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, the Middle East, the Far East, Russia and Africa. It is also a land well-servicing and workover contractors in the United States and Canada. The Company markets approximately 564 land workover and well-servicing rigs in the United States, primarily in the southwestern and western United States, and approximately 173 land workover and well-servicing rigs in Canada. Nabors is a provider of offshore platform workover and drilling rigs, and actively markets 35 platform, 12 jack-up units and 4 barge rigs in the United States and multiple international markets. It has a 51% ownership interest in a joint venture in Saudi Arabia, which actively markets 9 rigs. On August 8, 2007, the Company sold its Sea Mar business.

• 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.

• CNMD, CONMED CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 10.493885

CONMED Corporation (CONMED) is a medical technology company that focuses on surgical devices and equipment for minimally invasive procedures and monitoring. The Company’s products serve the clinical areas of arthroscopy, powered surgical instruments, electrosurgery, cardiac monitoring disposables, endosurgery and endoscopic technologies. CONMED’s products are used by surgeons and physicians in a range of specialties, including orthopedics, general surgery, gynecology, neurosurgery and gastroenterology. CONMED distributes its products worldwide from 10 manufacturing locations. The Company manufactures all of its products in facilities located in the United States, Mexico and Finland. CONMED markets its products both domestically and internationally directly to customers and through distributors. During the year ended December 31, 2007, international sales accounted for approximately 42% of the total sales.

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

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

• PGH, PENGROWTH EGY UTS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 14.609730

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

• CTRP, CTRIP.COM INTL LT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 158.403076

Ctrip.com International, Ltd. (Ctrip) is a travel service provider for hotel accommodations, airline tickets and packaged-tours in China. The Company also sells packaged-tours that include transportation and accommodations, as well as guided tours in some instances. Ctrip targets its services primarily at business and leisure travelers in China who do not travel in groups. It acts as agent in all of its transactions, and does not take inventory risks with respect to the hotel rooms and airline tickets booked through the Company. It derives its hotel reservation, air-ticketing and packaged-tour revenues through commissions from its travel suppliers, primarily based on the transaction value of the rooms, airline tickets and packaged-tour products, respectively, booked through its services.

• GIL, GILDAN ACTIVEWEAR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 54.320969

Gildan Activewear Inc. (Gildan) is a vertically integrated marketer and manufacturer of activewear, underwear and socks. The Company is a supplier of activewear for the wholesale imprinted sportswear market in the United States and Canada, and also a supplier for this market in Europe. The Company specializes in marketing and large-scale manufacturing of basic, non-fashion apparel products. It sells activewear, namely T-shirts, fleece and sport shirts, in large quantities to wholesale distributors as undecorated blanks, which are subsequently decorated by screenprinters with designs and logos. In October 15, 2007, Gildan completed the acquisition of V.I. Prewett & Son, Inc., a supplier of basic family socks to the United States mass-market retailers.

• ARO, AEROPOSTALE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 9.264440

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

• VIV, VIVO PARTICIPACOE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 59.381481

Vivo Participacoes S.A. (Vivo) is a provider of cellular telecommunications services in Brazil. The Company operates through its subsidiary, Vivo S.A., which is a cellular operator in Brazil. Vivo provides mobile telecommunications services on the A and B Band frequency in 19 Brazilian states in addition to Distrito Federal, which represents approximately 7.3 million square kilometers or 85.6% of the Brazilian territory. Vivo provides cellular telecommunications services using global system for mobile communications (GSM)/enhanced data for GSM evolution (EDGE), code division multiple access (CDMA) and time division multiple access (TDMA) in the frequency of 850 megahertz.

• 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.

• CRA, APPLERA CP-CELERA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 30.164644

Celera Corporation (Celera) is a healthcare business delivering personalized disease management through a combination of products and services. The Company operates in three segments: a clinical laboratory testing service business (Lab Services), a products business (Products), and a segment which includes other activities under corporate management (Corporate). Its Lab Services business, conducted through Berkeley HeartLab, Inc., (BHL), offers a portfolio of clinical laboratory tests and disease management services to help healthcare providers improve cardiovascular disease treatment regimens for patients. Its Products business develops, manufactures, and oversees the commercialization of molecular diagnostic products, which are commercialized through its relationship with Abbott Molecular, a subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories. On July 1, 2008, Celera announced that it has completed its split-off from Applera Corporation.

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

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

• ARG, AIRGAS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.699491

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

• LKQX, LKQ CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 233.941666

LKQ Corporation is a provider of recycled light vehicle original equipment manufacturer (OEM) products and related services. The Company is also a provider of aftermarket collision replacement products, and refurbished bumper covers and wheels. The Company operates out of a total of approximately 300 facilities offering its customers a range of replacement systems, components, and parts to repair light vehicles. It participates in the market for recycled OEM products, as well as the market for collision repair aftermarket products. It obtains aftermarket products and salvage vehicles from a variety of sources, and dismantles the salvage vehicles to obtain a range of vehicle products that it distributes into the light vehicle repair market. In August 2008, it acquired Pick-Your-Part Auto Wrecking. In October 2008, it acquired Automotive Rebuilders Supply Co., Inc. In October 2008, the Company also acquired Goody’s Truck Parts, Inc.

• 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).

• CMO, CAPSTEAD MTG CP N Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1118.925537

Capstead Mortgage Corporation (Capstead) operates as a self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) that earns income from investing in real estate-related assets on a leveraged basis. These investments consist primarily of a core portfolio of residential adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) securities issued and guaranteed by government-sponsored entities, either Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), or by an agency of the federal government, Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) (Agency Securities). Capstead may also invest a portion of its investment capital in credit-sensitive commercial real estate-related assets, including subordinate commercial real estate loans.

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

CVS Caremark Corporation (CVS Caremark) is a provider of prescriptions and related healthcare services in the United States. The Company fills or manages more than one billion prescriptions annually. As a fully integrated pharmacy services company, CVS Caremark drives value for its customers by managing pharmaceutical costs and improving healthcare outcomes through its approximately 6,200 CVS/pharmacy retail stores; CVS Caremark?s pharmacy benefit management, mail order and specialty pharmacy division, Caremark Pharmacy Services; its retail-based health clinic subsidiary, MinuteClinic, and the Company?s online pharmacy, CVS.com. Effective March 22, 2007, the Company closed its merger with Caremark Rx, Inc. Following the Caremark Merger, the Company changed its name to CVS Caremark Corporation. CVS Caremark operates two business segments: Retail Pharmacy and Pharmacy Services. As of October 16, 2008, the Company had acquired approximately 77.55% interest in Long Drug Stores Corporation.

• 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.

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• CLF, CLEVELAND CLIFFS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 237.817490

Cliffs Natural Resources Inc, formerly 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. It 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, it 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.

• ARO, AEROPOSTALE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 9.264440

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

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

South Jersey Industries, Inc. (SJI) is an energy services holding company that provides a variety of energy related products and services through its wholly owned subsidiaries, South Jersey Gas Company (SJG), South Jersey Energy Company (SJE), South Jersey Resources Group, LLC (SJRG), Marina Energy, LLC (Marina) and South Jersey Energy Service Plus, LLC (SJESP). SJG is a regulated natural gas utility that distributes natural gas in the seven southernmost counties of New Jersey. SJE acquires and markets natural gas and electricity to retail end users, and provides total energy management services to commercial and industrial customers. SJRG markets wholesale natural gas storage, commodity and transportation in the mid-Atlantic and southern states. Marina develops and operates onsite energy-related projects. SJESP installs residential and small commercial heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and provides plumbing services and services appliances.

• 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.

• 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.

• MOH, MOLINA HEALTHCARE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 13.734159

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

• CLF, CLEVELAND CLIFFS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 237.817490

Cliffs Natural Resources Inc, formerly 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. It 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, it 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.

• 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.

• CENX, CENTURY ALUMINUM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 26.985502

Century Aluminum Company (Century Aluminum) is a holding company engaged in producing aluminium. The Company?s principal subsidiaries are Century Aluminum of West Virginia, Inc. (Century of West Virginia), Berkeley Aluminum, Inc. (Berkeley), Century Kentucky, Inc. (Century Kentucky) and Nordural ehf (Nordural). Century of West Virginia operates a primary aluminium reduction facility in Ravenswood, West Virginia (Ravenswood). Berkeley holds a 49.7% interest in a partnership, which operates a primary aluminium reduction facility in Mt. Holly, South Carolina (Mt. Holly) and a 49.7% undivided interest in the property, plant, and equipment comprising Mt. Holly. The remaining interest in the partnership and the remaining undivided interest in Mt. Holly are owned by Alumax of South Carolina, Inc., a subsidiary of Alcoa (ASC).

• 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.

• 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.

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

Mariner Energy, Inc. (Mariner) is an independent oil and gas exploration, development, and production company. The Company?s principal operations are in three geographic areas: West Texas is an active driller in the prolific Spraberry field in the Permian Basin at depths between 6,000 and 10,000 feet; the deepwater operations of the Gulf of Mexico, where the Company is an active operator of exploration and development projects in water depths ranging from 1,300 feet up to 7,000 feet, and Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico, shelf wells and deep shelf wells extending to 1,300 foot water depths. In January 2008, the Company announced acquisition of an operating subsidiary of Hydro Gulf of Mexico, Inc., a subsidiary of StatoilHydro ASA, which owns substantially all of StatoilHydro’s Gulf of Mexico shelf operations.

• 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.

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

Kendle International Inc. is a global clinical research organization (CRO) that provides a range of Phase I-IV global clinical development services to the biopharmaceutical industry. The Company augments the research and development activities of biopharmaceutical companies by offering clinical research services and information technology designed to reduce drug development time and expense. It delivers integrated clinical development services, including clinical trial management, clinical data management, statistical analysis, medical writing, regulatory consulting and organizational meeting management and publications services on a contract basis. Its Early Stage business focuses on the Company?s Phase I operations, while Late Stage is comprised of clinical development services related to Phases II through IV clinical trials, regulatory affairs and biometrics offerings. In June 2008, the Company announced the acquisition of DecisionLine Clinical Research Corporation.

• PGH, PENGROWTH EGY UTS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 14.609730

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

• CIR, CIRCOR INTL INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 9.260674

Circor International, Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes different valves and related fluid-control products and certain services to a variety of end-markets for use in different applications to ensure the safety of fluid-control systems. The Company operates 17 manufacturing facilities that are located in the United States, Canada, Western Europe and the People?s Republic of China. Circor has two product groups: Instrumentation and Thermal Fluid Controls Products and Energy Products. As of December 31, 2007, the Company?s products were sold through distributors and it serviced more than 10,000 customers in over 130 countries around the world. On September 28, 2007, Circor and its Instrumental and Thermal Fluid Controls Dutch subsidiary, Dovianus in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, sold its 50% equity interest in Keofitt Holdings, A/S, a Danish company to the other 50% joint venture partner. In May 2008, CIRCOR completed the acquisition of Motor Technology, Inc.

• 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.

• CTRP, CTRIP.COM INTL LT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 158.403076

Ctrip.com International, Ltd. (Ctrip) is a travel service provider for hotel accommodations, airline tickets and packaged-tours in China. The Company also sells packaged-tours that include transportation and accommodations, as well as guided tours in some instances. Ctrip targets its services primarily at business and leisure travelers in China who do not travel in groups. It acts as agent in all of its transactions, and does not take inventory risks with respect to the hotel rooms and airline tickets booked through the Company. It derives its hotel reservation, air-ticketing and packaged-tour revenues through commissions from its travel suppliers, primarily based on the transaction value of the rooms, airline tickets and packaged-tour products, respectively, booked through its services.

• 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.

• 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.