Cynthia Harlow

A subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They provide global equity and fixed research. The equity research department covers more than 100 sectors. They use a fundamental, quantitative, strategic and tactical research approach. In addition to these Lehman has also developed special products, such as 10 uncommon values and 10 uncommon eurovalues.

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (Broker) (CGMI-Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., an investment bank headquartered in New York City with additional offices across the US. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Citigroup Financial Products, Inc., ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). CGMI-Broker covers all market capitalizations of the major global indices and provides macro and quantitative analysis of global markets and sector trends. Their core focus of the group is to help investing clients make informed decisions by providing value-added, independent, insightful analysis.

Criterion Research Group LLC is an independent research firm headquartered in New York City. They provide research based on their proprietary earnings quality accrual model and additional quantitative and qualitative screens developed by Criterion and Wharton accounting Professor Scott Richardson. Accruals are management's estimates of future cash flows and expenses that increase earnings and often turn out to be wrong due to error or management's prerogative to increase earnings. Criterion's accrual model quantifies the accrual component of the earnings of more than 5,000 public US companies (the CRG 5000) and sorts these companies into ten accrual categories within the CRG 5000 and the S&P 500. Companies in the 10th accrual decile have the highest accrual and lowest cash components to their earnings, and companies in the 1st accrual decile have the lowest accrual and highest cash components to their earnings

Credit Suisse First Boston LLC provides global investment banking services in the United States. It provides private banking and financial advisory services and banking products. Its businesses include securities underwriting, sales & trading, investment banking, private equity, alternative assets, financial advisory services, investment research and asset management. It is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of F. Marc de Lacharrière (Fimalac) SE, Thomson Bankwatch, Inc. provides international banking ratings services.