buyupside.com Natural Resources Portfolio

The buyupside.com Natural Resources Portfolio includes a diversified mix ofeight large companies that are engaged in mining and providing cement, copper, gold, limestone, molybdenum, nickel, potash, pulp, sand, stone, silver, timber, tin and zinc. The portfolio does not include major oil, natural gas or coal companies.

buyupside.com Natural Resources Portfolio
Company	Stock Symbol	Major Products	Headquarters
Barrick Gold	ABX	Gold	Canada
BHP Billiton	BHP	Mining conglomerate	Australia
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold	FCX	Copper, gold and silver	U.S.
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan	POT	Potash, phosphate, and nitrogen products	Canada
Rio Tinto	RTP	Mining conglomerate	England
VALE	VALE	Mining conglomerate	Brazil
Vulcan Materials	VMC	Sand, gravel, crushed stone and cement	U.S.
Weyerhaeuser	WY	Paper and wood products	U.S.

The weekly value (price data are weekly closes from finance.yahoo.com) of the portfolio is computed assuming that you invested $1,000 in each of the nine stocks on January 3, 1995.

To follow the day-to-day progress of the Natural Resources Portfolio, check out the chart below. It is updated each day, so the portfolio values are always current. The current value of the portfolio assumes that $1,250 was invested (total of $10,000) in each stock at its closing weekly price for the first week of January 2001.

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Updated Mar-19-10.