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Vermilion Booster Shots: Attractive bottom-fishing stocks

For investors looking for bottom-fishing candidates; stocks that are breaking downtrends, exhibiting ascending reaction lows, and showing stabilizing relative strength.
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Adidas AG

ACM Managed Dollar Income Fund is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. This closed-end investment fund is designed for investors who seek high current income and capital appreciation. In order to achieve this objective, Co. invests primarily in high-yielding, U.S. and non-U.S. fixed income securities, denominated in U.S. dollars, that it expects to benefit from improving economic and credit fundamentals. Co. may utilize leverage through the investment techniques of reverse repurchase agreements and dollar rolls. As of Sept 30 2007, Co. had total assets of $192,614,325 and investment portfolio totalled $178,906,534.

Advansix Inc.

AdvanSix is a manufacturer of Nylon 6, a polymer resin which is a synthetic material used by the company's customers to produce plastics, fibers, filaments and films that, in turn, are used in such end-products as automotive and electronic components, carpets, sports apparel, fishing nets and food and industrial packaging. The company also sells other products including caprolactam, ammonium sulfate fertilizers, and other chemical intermediates. The company sells its Nylon 6 resin under the Aegis? brand name, its nylon films under the Capran? brand name and its ammonium sulfate fertilizer under the Sulf-N? brand name. Chemical intermediates are also sold under the brand names of Nadone?, Naxol? and EZ-Blox?.

Affiliated Managers Group Inc.

Affiliated Managers Group is a global asset management company with equity investments in boutique investment management firms (Affiliates). The company provides centralized capabilities to its Affiliates, including strategy, marketing and distribution, and product development. Through its Affiliates, the company provides strategies designed to assist institutional, retail and clients worldwide in achieving their investment objectives. The company provides boutique investment management services to retail investors through advisory and sub-advisory services to return-oriented mutual funds, Undertakings for the Collective Investment of Transferable Securities, collective investment trusts and other retail products.

American Campus Communities Inc.

American Campus Communities is a real estate investment trust focusing on the acquisition, design, financing, development, construction management, leasing, and management of student housing properties. The company has four reportable segments: Owned Properties, which includes off-campus properties that are located in close proximity to the school campus; On-Campus Participating Properties, which includes on-campus properties that are operated under long-term ground/facility leases; Development Services, which consists of development and construction management services; and Property Management Services, which includes third-party management contracts in which the company is responsible for operations.

American Financial Group Inc.

American Financial Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, Great American Insurance Group, the company is engaged primarily in property and casualty insurance, focusing on commercial products for businesses, and in the sale of fixed, fixed-indexed and variable-indexed annuities in the retail, financial institutions, broker-dealer and registered investment advisor markets. The company's property and casualty insurance segments consist of property and transportation, specialty casualty, and specialty financial. The company's annuity segment is focused on the sale of fixed and indexed annuities in the retail, financial institutions, broker-dealer and registered investment advisor markets .

American International Group Inc.

American International Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of property casualty insurance, life insurance, retirement solutions, and other financial services. The company's businesses include General Insurance, which provides insurance products and services for commercial and personal insurance customers; Life and Retirement, which brings together a portfolio of life insurance, retirement and institutional products provided through a multichannel distribution network; and Other Operations, which include Blackboard U.S. Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary focused on delivering commercial insurance solutions using digital technology, data analytics and automation.

Aptargroup Inc.

AptarGroup is a supplier of a range of dispensing, sealing and active packaging solutions for the beauty, personal care, home care, prescription drug, consumer health care, injectables, food and beverage markets. The company's primary products are dispensing pumps, which dispense a spray or lotion from non-pressurized containers; closures, which are plastic caps that allow a product to be dispensed without removing the cap; aerosol valves, which dispense product from pressurized containers; and elastomeric primary packaging components, which include stoppers for infusion, antibiotic, lyophilization and diagnostic vials, pre-filled syringe components, as well as dropper bulbs and syringe plungers.

Automatic Data Processing Inc.

Automatic Data Processing is a provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions to employers, providing solutions to businesses of various sizes. The company's two reportable business segments are Employer Services, which provides a range of technology-based HCM solutions, including payroll services, benefits administration, talent management, HR management, workforce management, compliance services, insurance services and retirement services; and Professional Employer Organization, which provides clients with employment administration outsourcing solutions through a relationship in which employees who work for a client are co-employed by the company and the client.

Baker Hughes Company Class A

Baker Hughes is an energy technology company. The company's segments are: Oilfield Services, which provides products and services for onshore and offshore operations ranging from drilling, evaluation, completion, production, and intervention; Oilfield Equipment, which provides products and services for the subsea, offshore surface and onshore operating environments; Turbomachinery and Processing Solutions, which provides equipment and related services for mechanical-drive, compression and power-generation applications; and Digital Solutions, which includes condition monitoring, industrial controls, non-destructive technologies, measurement, sensing, and pipeline solutions.

Bank of Hawaii Corporation

Bank of Hawaii is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, the company provides financial products and services to customers in Hawaii, Guam, and other Pacific Islands. The company's segments include: Retail Banking, which provides financial products and services such as loan and lease, deposit, and retail insurance products; Commercial Banking, which provides products such as corporate banking, commercial real estate loans, commercial lease financing, auto dealer financing, and deposit products; and Investment Services and Private Banking, which includes private banking and international client banking services, trust services, investment management, and institutional investment advisory services.

Barrett Business Services Inc.

Barrett Business Services is a provider of business management solutions for small-and mid-sized companies. The company has two categories of services: Professional Employer Services, in which the company enters into a client services agreement to establish a co-employment relationship with each client company, assuming responsibility for payroll, payroll taxes, workers' compensation coverage and certain other administrative functions for the client's existing workforce; and Staffing, which includes on-demand or short-term staffing assignments, contract staffing, direct placement, and long-term or indefinite-term on-site management.

Capri Holdings Limited

CBRE GROUP INC

CBRE Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a commercial real estate services and investment firm. The company's segments include: Advisory Services, which provides a range of services globally, including property leasing and capital markets; Global Workplace Solutions, which provides a suite of integrated, contractually-based outsourcing services globally for occupiers of real estate; and Real Estate Investments, which is comprised of investment management services provided globally, development services in the United States and United Kingdom and a service designed to help property occupiers and owners meet the demand for flexible office space solutions on a global basis.

CDW Corp.

CDW, through its subsidiaries, is a provider of integrated information technology solutions in the U.S., U.K. and Canada. The company's hardware products include notebooks/mobile devices (including tablets), network communications, desktop computers, video monitors, enterprise and data storage, printers and servers. The company's software products include application suites, security, virtualization, operating systems and network management. The company's services include warranties, managed services, consulting design and implementation. The company also provides public cloud solutions which reside off customer premises on a public (shared) infrastructure, and private cloud solutions, which reside on customer premises.

CenterPoint Energy Inc.

CenterPoint Energy owns interests in Enable Midstream Partners, LP. The company's subsidiaries own and operate electric transmission and distribution, electric generation and natural gas distribution facilities, supply natural gas to commercial and industrial customers and electric and natural gas utilities and provide underground pipeline construction and repair services, energy performance contracting and sustainable infrastructure services. The company's segments include: Houston Electric T&D, which consists of electric transmission and distribution services in the Texas Gulf Coast area; and Energy Services, which consists of non-rate regulated natural gas sales and services operations.

Comerica Incorporated

Comerica is a financial holding company, engaged in lending to and accepting deposits from businesses and individuals. The company's segments are: Business Bank, which provides commercial loans and lines of credit, deposits, cash management, capital market products, international trade finance, letters of credit, foreign exchange management services and loan syndication services; Retail Bank, which provides consumer lending, consumer deposit gathering and mortgage loan origination; and Wealth Management, which provides products and services consisting of fiduciary services, private banking, retirement services, investment management and advisory services, investment banking and brokerage services.

Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc.

Cooper-Standard Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a manufacturer of sealing, fuel and brake delivery, and fluid transfer systems. The company's sealing systems protect vehicle interiors from weather, dust and noise intrusion. In addition, the company's fuel and brake delivery systems sense, deliver and control fluids to fuel and brake systems. The company's fluid transfer systems sense, deliver and control fluid and vapors for powertrain and HVAC operation. The company has four operating segments: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and South America.

Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc.

Cullen/Frost Bankers is a financial holding company and a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of products and services throughout various Texas markets. The company provides commercial and consumer banking services, as well as trust and investment management, insurance, brokerage, mutual funds, leasing, treasury management, capital markets advisory and item processing services. The company serves a variety of industries including, among others, energy, manufacturing, services, construction, retail, telecommunications, healthcare, military and transportation. The company's reportable operating segments are: Banking and Frost Wealth Advisors.

Entergy Corporation

Entergy is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an integrated energy company engaged mainly in electric power production and retail distribution operations. The company owns and operates power plants. The company has two segments: Utility, which generates, transmits, distributes and sells electric power to retail and wholesale customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas; and Entergy Wholesale Commodities, which includes the ownership, operation, and decommissioning of nuclear power plants, located in the northern United States, the sale of the electric power produced by its operating plants to wholesale customers, and also provides services to other nuclear power plant owners.

F.N.B. Corporation

FNB is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of financial services, principally to consumers, corporations, governments and small- to medium-sized businesses in its market areas. Commercial banking solutions include corporate banking, small business banking, investment real estate financing, business credit, capital markets and lease financing. Consumer banking products and services include deposit products, mortgage lending, consumer lending and a complete suite of mobile and online banking services. Wealth management services include asset management, private banking and insurance.

Fifth Third Bancorp

Fifth Third Bancorp is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides financial products and services to the commercial, financial, retail, governmental, educational, energy and healthcare sectors. The company's segments are: Commercial Banking, which provides credit intermediation, cash management and financial services; Branch Banking, which provides a range of deposit and loan products to individuals and small businesses; Consumer Lending, which includes the company's residential mortgage, automobile and other indirect lending activities; and Wealth and Asset Management, which provides a range of investment alternatives for individuals, companies and not-for-profit organizations.

Huntington Bancshares Incorporated

Huntington Bancshares is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides commercial, small business, consumer banking services, mortgage banking services, automobile financing, recreational vehicle and marine financing, equipment leasing, investment management, trust services, brokerage services, insurance programs, and other financial products and services. The company's segments include: Consumer and Business Banking, which provides financial products and services to consumer and small business customers; and Commercial Banking, which provides products and services to the middle market, large corporate, real estate and government public sector customers.

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling Inc. Class A

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling designs, engineers, manufactures, sells and services a line of lift trucks, attachments and aftermarket parts marketed primarily under the Hyster? and Yale? brand names, to independent Hyster? and Yale? retail dealerships. The company's subsidiary, Zhejiang Maximal Forklift Co., Ltd., is a manufacturer of utility and standard lift trucks and specialized material handling equipment involved in the design, manufacture, service and distribution of Class 1 electric and Class 5 internal combustion engine counterbalance utility and standard platforms, and Class 2 and Class 3 electric warehouse products for both the local China and global markets under the Maximal brand.

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated

Jones Lang LaSalle is a professional services firm that engages in real estate and investment management. The company delivers an array of services across four business segments. The company manage its Real Estate Services offerings across three geographic business segments: the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Asia Pacific, and the company manages its investment management business globally as LaSalle Investment Management. In its Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific operating segments, the company provides a range of leasing, capital markets, integrated property and facility management, project management, advisory, consulting, valuations and digital solutions services.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

JPMorgan Chase is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company's segments include: Consumer and Community Banking, which provides services through bank branches, ATMs, digital (including mobile and online) and telephone banking; Corporate and Investment Bank, which consists of Banking and Markets and Securities Services, provides a suite of investment banking, market-making, prime brokerage, and treasury and securities products and services; Commercial Banking, which provides financial solutions, including lending, treasury services, investment banking and asset management products; and Asset and Wealth Management, which is engaged in investment and wealth management.

Kelly Services Inc. Class A

Kelly Services provides workforce solutions to customers in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and Asia Pacific regions. The company's segments include: Americas Staffing, which delivers temporary staffing, as well as direct-hire placement services, in a number of staffing services such as office, education, marketing, and electronic assembly; International Staffing, which provides a similar range of staffing services as its Americas Staffing segment, including office, engineering, finance and accounting, information technology, and science; and Global Talent Solutions, which combines the delivery structure of its and consulting group and centrally delivered staffing business.

LKQ Corporation

LKQ is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides alternative vehicle collision replacement products and alternative vehicle mechanical replacement products. The company is also a provider of alternative vehicle replacement and maintenance products in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Benelux region (Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg), Italy, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Austria, and other European countries. In addition to its wholesale operations, the company operates self service retail facilities across the United States that sell recycled automotive products from end-of-life-vehicles. The company is also a distributor of specialty vehicle aftermarket equipment and accessories.

MDU Resources Group Inc

MDU Resources Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is organized into five reportable business segments: electric, which generates, transmits and distributes electricity in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming; natural gas distribution, which distributes natural gas in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Minnesota, Oregon and Washington; pipeline and midstream, which provides natural gas transportation, underground storage and gathering services; construction materials and contracting, which mines, processes and sells construction aggregates; and construction services, which provides inside and outside specialty contracting services.

MGE Energy Inc.

MGE Energy is a public utility holding company. Operating through its subsidiaries, the company has five business segments: regulated electric utility operations, which generates, purchases, and distributes electricity through its subsidiary, Madison Gas and Electric Company (MGE); regulated gas utility operations, which purchases and distributes natural gas through MGE; nonregulated energy operation, which owns and leases electric generating capacity that assists MGE through the company's wholly owned subsidiaries MGE Power Elm Road, LLC and MGE Power West Campus, LLC; and transmission investments, which represents the company's investment in American Transmission Company LLC and ATC Holdco, LLC.

MGIC Investment Corporation

MGIC Investment is a holding company. Through Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation, the company is engaged in the mortgage insurance business. The company provides mortgage insurance to lenders throughout the U.S. and to government sponsored entities. Primary insurance provides mortgage default protection on individual loans and covers unpaid loan principal, delinquent interest and certain expenses associated with the default and subsequent foreclosure or sale approved by the company Through certain other non-insurance subsidiaries, the company also provides various services for the mortgage finance industry, such as contract underwriting, analysis of loan originations and portfolios, and mortgage lead generation.

Modine Manufacturing Company

Modine Manufacturing is engaged in providing thermal management solutions. The company is a provider of engineered heat transfer systems and heat transfer components for use in on- and off-highway original equipment manufacturer vehicular applications. In addition, the company is involved in thermal management technology and solutions for sale into a range of commercial, industrial, and building heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration markets. The company's primary product groups include powertrain cooling and engine cooling; coils, coolers, and coatings; and heating, ventilation and air conditioning.

Mohawk Industries Inc.

Mohawk Industries is a global flooring manufacturer for residential and commercial spaces around the world. The company has three segments: Global Ceramic, which designs, manufactures, sources, distributes and markets a line of ceramic, porcelain and natural stone tile products used for floor and wall applications; Flooring North America, which designs, manufactures, sources and distributes broadloom carpet, carpet tile, rugs and mats, carpet pad, laminate, medium-density fiberboard, luxury vinyl tile (LVT) and sheet vinyl; and Flooring Rest of the World, which designs, manufactures, sources and distributes laminate, LVT and sheet vinyl, wood flooring, broadloom carpet and carpet tile collections.

Molson Coors Beverage Company Class B

Molson Coors Brewing is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a brewer and has a portfolio of brands, including Blue Moon, Coors Banquet, Coors Light, Miller Lite, Staropramen, Carling, Molson Canadian and other brands, as well as craft and specialty beers such as Creemore Springs, Cobra, Doom Bar, Henry's Hard and Leinenkugel's. The company's segments include: MillerCoors LLC operating in the U.S.; Molson Coors Canada operating in Canada; Molson Coors Europe operating in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Montenegro, the Republic of Ireland, Romania, Serbia, the U.K. and various other European countries; and Molson Coors International operating in various other countries.

MTS Systems Corporation

MTS Systems supplies test, simulation and measurement systems and sensors. The company's Test and Simulation segment provides testing solutions including hardware, software and services. Products, service and customers are grouped into three global sectors: ground vehicles, materials, and structures. The company's Sensors segment is engaged in sensing technologies and solutions used by design engineers and predictive maintenance personnel. Sensors products and solutions serve the automotive, aerospace, industrial, defense, and research and development markets. Sensors products and customers are grouped into four global sectors: positional sensors, test sensors, industrial sensors, and systems sensors.

New Jersey Resources Corporation

New Jersey Resources is an energy services holding company whose principal business is the distribution of natural gas through a regulated utility, providing other retail and wholesale energy services to customers and investing in clean energy projects and midstream assets. The company's segments are: Natural Gas Distribution, which consists of regulated natural gas services, off-system sales, capacity and storage management operations; Clean Energy Ventures, which consists of capital investments in clean energy projects; Energy Services, which consists of unregulated wholesale and retail energy operations; and Midstream, which consists of investments in the midstream natural gas market.

Newell Brands Inc

Newell Brands is a global marketer of consumer and commercial products. The company's segments include: Appliances and Cookware, which designs, manufactures, sources, markets and distributes a various line of household products; Food and Commercial, which designs, manufactures, sources, markets and distributes a various line of household products; Home and Outdoor Living, which designs, manufactures, sources, markets and distributes home fragrance and home security products; and Learning and Development, which designs, manufactures, sources, markets and distributes writing instruments, including markers and highlighters, pens and pencils.

Nucor Corporation

Nucor manufactures steel and steel products. The company's operations include international trading and sales companies that buy and sell steel and steel products. The company's segments are: steel mills, which produces sheet steel, plate steel, structural steel, and bar steel; steel products, which produces hollow structural section steel tubing, electrical conduit, steel joists and joist girders, steel deck, cold finished steel, steel fasteners, metal building systems, and wire and wire mesh; and raw materials, which produces direct reduced iron (DRI), brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, hot briquetted iron and DRI, supplies ferro-alloys, and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal.

Old Republic International Corporation

Old Republic International is a holding company engaged in the business of insurance underwriting and related services. Through its regulated insurance company subsidiaries, the company conducts its operations in three main segments: General Insurance Group, which is a commercial lines insurance business focused on liability insurance coverages; Title Insurance Group, which consists mainly of the issuance of policies to real estate purchasers and investors based upon searches of the public records, which contain information concerning interests in real property; and the Republic Financial Indemnity Group Run-off Business, which consists of mortgage guaranty and consumer credit indemnity operations.

Pilgrim's Pride Corporation

Pilgrims Pride is primarily engaged in the production, processing, marketing and distribution of fresh, frozen chicken products to retailers, distributors and foodservice operators. The company's primary product types are fresh chicken products, prepared chicken products and export chicken products. The company's fresh chicken products consist of refrigerated (nonfrozen) whole or cut-up chicken, either pre-marinated or non-marinated and prepackaged case-ready chicken. The company's case-ready chicken includes various combinations of freshly refrigerated, whole chickens and chicken parts in trays, bags or other consumer packs labeled and priced ready for the retail grocer's fresh meat counter.

Plantronics Inc.

Plantronics is a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of communications and collaboration solutions that span headsets, Open SIP desktop phones, audio and video conferencing, cloud management and analytics software solutions, and services. The company's main product categories are Enterprise Headsets, which includes corded and cordless communication headsets; Consumer Headsets, which includes Bluetooth and corded products for mobile device applications, personal computer and gaming; Voice, Video, and Content Sharing Solutions, which includes Open SIP desktop phones, conference room phones, and video endpoints, including cameras, speakers, and microphones.

PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

PNC Financial Services Group is a bank holding company. The company has businesses engaged in retail banking, including residential mortgage, corporate and institutional banking and asset management, providing its products and services nationally. The company's segments are: Retail Banking, which provides deposit, lending, brokerage, insurance services, investment management and cash management products and services; Corporate and Institutional Banking, which provides lending, treasury management, and capital markets-related products and services; Asset Management Group, which provides personal wealth management; and BlackRock, which provides a range of investment and technology services.

Popular Inc.

Popular is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a financial institution based in Puerto Rico. The company operates in two principal markets: Puerto Rico, which provides retail, mortgage, and commercial banking services through its principal banking subsidiary, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, as well as auto and equipment leasing and financing, investment banking, broker-dealer and insurance services through various subsidiaries; and Mainland United States, which provides retail, mortgage and commercial banking services through its New York-chartered banking subsidiary, Popular Bank, which has branches in New York, New Jersey and Florida.

Southern Company

Southern is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Alabama Power Company, Georgia Power Company, and Mississippi Power Company, the company is engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution, and purchase of electricity and the sale of electric service in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. The company's Southern Power Company subsidiary develops, constructs, acquires, owns, and manages power generation assets, including renewable energy projects, and sells electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market. The company's Southern Company Gas subsidiary is an energy services holding company whose primary business is the distribution of natural gas in Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee.

Sterling Bancorp

Sterling Bancorp is a bank holding company and financial holding company. Through its subsidiary, Sterling National Bank (the Bank), the company provides commercial, business, and consumer banking products and services. The Bank's principal business is accepting deposits and, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, investing in various types of loans and securities. The Bank also operates its commercial finance businesses, which include asset-based lending, payroll financing, factoring, warehouse lending, equipment financing, and public sector financing. The company's commercial banking teams focus on the origination of commercial and industria loans and commercial mortgage loans.

Steven Madden Ltd.

Steven Madden designs, sources, markets and sells name brand and private label footwear for women, men and children and name brand and private label handbags and accessories. The company licenses its trademarks for use in connection with the manufacturing, marketing and sale of various products by third party licensees. The company's products are marketed through its retail stores and its e-commerce websites within the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the company's joint ventures in South Africa, China, Taiwan and Israel, as well as department stores, specialty stores, retailers, national chains, mass merchants, online retailers and catalog retailers throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, certain European nations and Tunisia.

Synovus Financial Corp.

Synovus Financial is a financial services company and a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary bank, Synovus Bank, the company provides commercial banking services and retail banking services. The company's commercial banking services include treasury management, asset management, capital markets services, institutional trust services and commercial, financial and real estate loans. The company's retail banking services include accepting customary types of demand and savings deposits accounts; mortgage, installment and other consumer loans; investment and brokerage services; safe deposit services; automated banking services; automated fund transfers; and Internet-based banking services.

Travelers Companies Inc.

Travelers Companies is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in providing commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products and services to businesses, government units, associations and individuals. The company's segments include: Business Insurance, which provides property and casualty insurance and insurance-related services; Bond and Specialty Insurance, which provides surety, fidelity, management liability, professional liability, and other property and casualty coverages and related risk management services, and certain specialty insurance products; and Personal Insurance, which writes property and casualty insurance covering individuals' personal risks.

Truist Financial Corp.

U.S. Bancorp

U.S. Bancorp is a multi-state financial services holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of financial services, including lending and depository services, cash management, capital markets, and trust and investment management services. The company also engages in credit card services, merchant and ATM processing, mortgage banking, insurance, brokerage and leasing. The company's subsidiary, U.S. Bank National Association, is engaged in the general banking business, principally in domestic markets. The company's bank and trust subsidiaries provide a range of asset management and fiduciary services for individuals, estates, foundations, business corporations and charitable organizations.

Wintrust Financial Corporation

Wintrust Financial is a financial holding company.Through its community banking segment, the company's banking subsidiaries provide community-oriented, personal and commercial banking services. Through its specialty finance segment, the company provides financing of insurance premiums for businesses and individuals; accounts receivable financing, out-sourced administrative services; and other finance businesses. Through its wealth management segment, the company provides a range of wealth management services including trust and investment services, tax-deferred like-kind exchange services, asset management, securities brokerage services and 401(k) and retirement plan services.

Zions Bancorporation N.A.

Zions is a commercial bank. The company provides a range of banking and related services, primarily in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The company provides community banking services through its main business lines of small and medium-sized business and corporate banking; commercial and residential development, construction and term lending; retail banking; treasury cash management and related products and services; residential mortgage servicing and lending; trust and wealth management; capital markets activities, including municipal finance advisory and underwriting; and investment activities.

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