Data Broadcasting and Fox Investments to Provide Brand-Labeled Internet Service.

HAYWARD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 1999--Data Broadcasting Corp. (Nasdaq:DBCC), America's leading provider of real-time financial market data to traders and individual investors over the Internet, Friday announced a partnership with online trading firm Fox Investments to provide a private-labeled version of DBC's Signal Online to Fox Investments' clients.

Signal Online will provide Fox Investments' customers with the breadth of financial data found in Signal Online, including vital futures information, real-time streaming data, and other information essential for effective trading. Fox Investments' customers will experience a significant trading advantage for their futures and options trading and all information is available at their fingertips with just the click of a button.

"Signal Online is viewed as the best on the Internet for both content and breadth of financial information," said Jeffrey H. Fox, president of Fox Investments. "Our traders now have the opportunity to receive the foremost financial Internet offering available."

"With over 25 years of experience, Fox Investments brings a wealth of industry knowledge and expertise to DBC, and we look forward to a long-lasting partnership," said Mark Imperiale, president of DBC.

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. Delivered worldwide via the Internet, clients receive data through their PCs and laptops via phone lines or wireless connection, making it possible for users to easily track their portfolios from their offices, homes or while traveling. Limit alerts via pager, e-mail or cellular phone, headline tickers, detailed portfolio management windows, and fundamental data are also included in an already robust product.

Signal Online offers the active trader free news from CBS MarketWatch (Nasdaq:MKTW). Additional offerings include news and commentary from sources such as Future World News, Hightower Futures News, Fortucast Market Timing, Dow Jones Real-Time News Service (NYSE: DJ), MarketGuide (Nasdaq:MARG) and Baseline (NYSE:PMK).

In addition to providing a wealth of information, Signal Online connects to some of the financial industry's largest and best-known third-party software packages, including Ensign for Windows Software by Ensign Software, Investor RT by Linn Software, Tradestation from Omega Research (Nasdaq:OMGA) and MetaStock Professional from Equis International, a Reuters Company (Nasdaq:RTRSY).

Signal Online supports Windows 95/98/NT and is available for download at http://www.dbc.com/map/fox.

About Fox Investments

Located in the famous Chicago Board of Trade building, Fox Investments has been in business for more than a quarter of a century and is a division of Rosenthal Collins Group, LLC, one of the oldest and strongest clearing firms in the futures and options business. For more information about Fox Investments, visit its Web site at http://www.foxglobal.com.

About Data Broadcasting Corp.

Data Broadcasting is a leading provider of real-time market data to the individual trader and investor. The company delivers real-time stock quotes, financial and news information to 3 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.