Straitford makes money byselling the results of spying ( coveringnationsfromChiletoRussia) to corporationslike energy-servicesfirmMcDermottInternational. (NETEM 2003, Text 1, Paragraph 3)
Among the largest underlying components of XES, in trading today McDermottInternational, Inc. ( NYSE: MDR) is down about 0.5%, ION Geophysical Corp ( NYSE: IO) is up about 2.2%, and Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. ( NYSE: DO) is up by about 0.2%.