Data Broadcasting and Equis International Disclose Exclusive Internet Partnership; Launch Of MetaStock Professional For Signal Online.

HAYWARD, Calif. --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 20, 1998--Data Broadcasting Corp. (Nasdaq:DBCC), America's leading provider of real-time financial data to traders and individual investors, Thursday announced an exclusive partnership with Equis International, a Reuters company (Nasdaq:RTRSY), to provide MetaStock Professional for Signal Online.

Data Broadcasting is one of only two data vendors to have the exclusive arrangement with Equis to provide MetaStock Professional to its subscribers. Reuters, as the parent company, is the only other partner.

"MetaStock is recognized as the most advanced charting software in the world and DBC is extremely pleased to be an exclusive provider for MetaStock Professional," said Mark Imperiale, president of DBC. "With the release of MetaStock Pro, day-traders have the benefit of analyzing the market in a real-time environment where they can make split-second decisions. We fully expect Signal and MetaStock users to take advantage of this winning combination of products."

MetaStock Professional supports all of Signal's feeds, including FM, cable, satellite and the Internet. Signal Online is Data Broadcasting's real-time, continuous financial market data service delivered worldwide via the Internet. Clients receive data through their PCs and laptops anywhere via phone lines or wireless connection, making it possible for users to easily track their portfolios from their offices, homes or while traveling.

Signal Online provides continuous streaming real-time quotes for U.S. equities as well as futures and options data, featuring Nasdaq Level II Market Maker information, limit alerts via pager, e-mail or cellular phone, headline tickers, detailed portfolio management windows and fundamental data.

Signal Online also offers the Internet trader free news from CBS MarketWatch. Other services include a wealth of news and commentary from sources such as Dow Jones Real-Time News Service (NYSE:DJ), MarketGuide (Nasdaq:MARG), Baseline (NYSE:PMK), Instant Advisor, Vickers Inside Trading Report and Zacks Earnings Surprises.

"This is the much anticipated launch of MetaStock with real-time capabilities," said Steve Achelis, president and founder of Equis. "We spent the development time selecting the best partner because we know how vital reliable real-time analytical software is to professional and serious traders.

"It gives them the resources they need to make smarter, more timely decisions, and those decisions become second nature when real-time data is combined with MetaStock's ease of use and wide choice of powerful analysis tools," Achelis added.

With this release, Equis International takes the next step to help serious traders evaluate their investments with MetaStock Professional, a real-time technical analysis software package based on a Windows interface. More than 70,000 investors in more than 70 countries have benefited from the power of the leading technical analysis and investment charting software -- MetaStock.

MetaStock Pro and DBC's Signal will help investors make faster, better-informed investment decisions by creating real-time charts; plotting prices and informative indicators; building, testing and optimizing trading systems; searching for securities that match their criteria; and setting critical trading alerts. Investors can then make more educated, profitable decisions about their investments.

MetaStock Professional provides integrated tools for Internet activities, including links to options chains, company news, and information and technical analysis references. In addition to the extensive charting capabilities and a wealth of indicators, MetaStock Pro performs several vital tasks, including the back testing of trading systems.

Traders can quickly see how much they would have made or lost if they had traded with a certain set of trading rules, thus optimizing trading systems for maximum profits. Traders also receive specialized options analysis with OptionScope, an idea tool for traders to calculate option price and implied volatility on the price of the underlying security.

MetaStock Pro also has the ability to create custom indicators with the Indicator Builder, where traders can choose from more than 220 functions, including 40 special indicators that identify Candlestick patterns.

For more information on DBC's line of financial information products, visit the company's press room on the Internet at http://www.dbc.com/pr.

About Equis International

Equis International develops and markets MetaStock, an award-winning investment analysis software for individual investors, traders, stockbrokers, money managers and professional analysts. The MetaStock family includes MetaStock 6.5 for Windows 95 & NT, MetaStock for Java, MetaStock for Quotron, MetaStock for Reuters, MetaStock CE, MetaStock for Windows and MetaStock for RT.

Equis, based in Salt Lake City, was founded in 1983 and, in 1996, was acquired by Reuters, the world's premier news and financial information company.

About Data Broadcasting

Data Broadcasting is America's leading provider of real-time market data to the individual trader and investor. The company delivers real-time stock quotes, financial and sports news and gaming information to more than 1 million users via PCs, wireless FM, cable satellite and the Internet (http://www.dbc.com and http://cbs.marketwatch.com).

With its Capital Management Sciences division, Data Broadcasting also is the leading provider of fixed income portfolio analytics used for valuation and risk management purposes.

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