Crain's New York Business Names Multex.com One of New York's Top Twenty New Media Companies.

Business/Technology Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2000

Multex.com Inc. (Nasdaq: MLTX), today announced that Crain's New York Business named the Company one of the New York area's top 20 companies, based on revenues for the last four quarters. According to the profile, Multex ranked twelfth out of the New York area's top 20 publicly held companies.

According to the article, "It's harder to name firms that don't do a lot of business with Multex.com... On October 19, 2000, Multex reported its first profit with a net income of $210,000, or 1 cent per share, compared with a net loss of $10.3 million, or 39 cents a share, a year ago. Revenues reached $22.8 million, more than double levels for the 1999 quarter."

Isaak Karaev, Chairman, CEO and President of Multex.com states, "It is wonderful to be recognized as one of the top 20 companies in the New York area by such a reputable financial publication as Crain's New York Business. We are proud of our past performance and expect to continue to show significant growth across each of our business units."

About Multex.com, Inc.

Multex.com, Inc. (http://www.multex.com) is one of the Internet's leading financial e-marketplaces connecting buyers and sellers of financial services. Multex.com is a global company providing cutting edge financial intelligence tools that enable and support decision-making processes for the major financial marketplace participants: institutional investors, investment banks, brokerage firms, corporations, and individual investors. The company focuses on three core business areas: Application Service Provider (ASP), which develops, hosts and operates web sites and portals for financial institutions; Institutional (B2B), which provides real-time, web-based financial applications and information to institutional investors and other financial institutions; and Individual (B2C), which provides financial applications and information to individual investors through a network of branded and affiliate web sites.

Multex.com serves this fast-growing and diverse financial e-marketplace through a number of industry leading brands, including: MultexNET,(R) a subscription/transaction based, real-time, online service providing financial information from more than 750 firms such as Merrill Lynch, Salomon Smith Barney and RS Investment Management to more than 10,000 buy-side firms and over 38,000 users; MultexEXPRESS,(SM) a web-development and hosting business with 120 sites; BuzzPower, industry leading collaborative commerce tools; and Multex Investor, which has attracted more than 2 million registered members; and Sage Online and Market Guide, with 1.6 million unique users. Multex.com has more than 500 information and distribution partners including: Reuters, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, AOL, Yahoo!, Quicken.com, CBS MarketWatch and CNNfn.com.

This press release includes forward-looking statements that are based on our current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions about Multex.com that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Reported results should not be considered an indication of future performance. Such risks and uncertainties are described in the periodic reports Multex files with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Multex undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release.