DOW JONES NEWSWIRES AND eSIGNAL EXPAND DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT

DOW JONES NEWSWIRES AND eSIGNAL EXPAND
DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT

More Dow Jones Real-Time News and Information Solutions
Now Available on All eSignal Products.

NEW YORK and HAYWARD, Calif. Aug. 23, 2005—Dow Jones Newswires, a market-leading provider of news and information to financial professionals, and eSignal, a division of Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), today announced an expansion of their distribution agreement.

The expanded agreement increases the Dow Jones news and information solutions available on eSignal’s streaming, real-time financial market data and tools, including eSignal®, QuoTrek®, MarketCenter LIVE™ and FutureSource® workstations.

“The expanded roster of Dow Jones news and information solutions offers our customers an additional source of much-needed market information on subjects ranging from mergers and acquisitions to stock stability and global economic influencers,” said Chuck Thompson, president of eSignal. “Providing our subscribers with this expanded offering from one of the industry’s leading market-news distributors will help them better predict and react to market changes.”

“Dow Jones Capital Market Report” and “Economic Report”—designed for fixed-income and foreign-exchange professionals—will now be available on eSignal, as will Dow Jones’ solutions for commodities and futures professionals, including “Dow Jones Commodities Service,” “AgriWire,” “MetalsWire” and “Commodities Basic Service.”

The agreement also helps further eSignal’s expansion into international and energy markets by entitling eSignal to offer “Dow Jones Energy Service” and Dow Jones’ international news solutions.

“We are excited to expand our agreement with eSignal and increase the Dow Jones solutions available on eSignal’s products,” said Joe Lanza, vice president, sales and marketing, Dow Jones Newswires–Americas. “As a result, we are now in a better position to match the data, tools and Dow Jones news with the investing, trading and research needs of our mutual customers.”

The roster of Dow Jones news and information solutions now available on eSignal products includes:

• Dow Jones News Service—premier news and information source on North American companies, covering everything that affects companies and stock markets. Coverage of wealth-management issues and ‘Dow Jones NewsPlus,’ browser-based access to critical news and insightful analysis, are included.

• Dow Jones Capital Markets Report—thorough and up-to-date source of real-time, global debt and forex news and analysis, from rate cuts and news issues, to consensus forecasts and trading activity.

• Dow Jones Economic Report—extensive coverage and analysis of the world’s forex and money markets, and the issues and events influencing currency markets and risk management.

• Dow Jones Commodities Service—comprehensive news, commentary and analysis of global commodities production, distribution and trading markets.

• Dow Jones AgriWire—focused news and information covering global agricultural markets and trading.

• Dow Jones MetalsWire—targeted coverage of news, cash and futures statistics, and analysis of U.S., Europe and Asia metals markets.

• Dow Jones Commodities Basic Service—overview of metals, softs and agricultural commodities.

• Dow Jones Energy Service—news, data and analysis covering global oil, power and natural gas markets. Includes the benchmark ‘Dow Jones Electricity Indexes.’

New and existing eSignal customers can easily subscribe to Dow Jones Newswires’ news and information solutions. For more information, visit www.esignal.com or call 800-833-1228.

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About Dow Jones Newswires

Dow Jones Newswires (djnewswires.com) offers real-time news and information solutions for financial professionals providing investment, advice and institutional services. The division also offers news for financial firms' Web sites and Dow Jones Financial Information Services’ database, newsletter and event businesses. In addition to Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ; www.dowjones.com) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Barron's and the Far Eastern Economic Review, Dow Jones Indexes, MarketWatch, and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group of Factiva, with Hearst of SmartMoney and with NBC Universal of the CNBC television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.

About eSignal:

The eSignal division (www.esignal.com) of Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) (www.interactivedata.com) is a leading global provider of financial and business information to professional and active individual investors. Building on a 20-year legacy of delivering time-sensitive financial information, eSignal provides streaming, real-time market data, news and analytics. eSignal’s suite of products includes eSignal®, Advanced GET™, QuoTrek®, FutureSourceÒ and MarketCenter LIVE™.

Raphel Finelli
PR Manager
eSignal