FAME Enhances Coverage of the Canadian Markets With Addition of the TSE Index Database; "Barometer for Monitoring Canadian Markets" Includes Five Indices.

Business/Technology Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2000

FAME Inc., the global leader in Internet-enabled, data management and decision support solutions, announced today it is adding the TSE Index Database to its FAME SiteServer data service. Widely regarded as the barometer for monitoring the Canadian markets, the TSE Index Database contains both index and constituent level data.

TSE Indices data includes open, high, low, close, SPIV, TRIV and relative weights. Indices covered include the S&P/TSE 60, TSE 300, TSE 100, TSE 200 and Toronto 35 and sub-indices. This file is available on a daily, monthly and month-by-day basis.

Introduced in 1977, the TSE 300 Composite Index represents the 300 largest traded companies covering 14 different groups broken into subgroups.

Launched in 1993, the TSE 100 Index, which provides institutional investors with a benchmark against which to measure investment performance, represents two-thirds of the capitalization of the Canadian equity market, including 100 of the largest and most liquid stocks traded on the TSE, with a narrower focus than the TSE 300 Composite Index. It is composed of four economic sectors: resource, consumer, industrial and interest-sensitive.

Created in 1987, the Toronto 35 Index tracks the 35 largest Canadian companies. Inclusion is based on a weighting formula that takes into account a predetermined number of shares multiplied by market price. A stock must also rank in the TSE 100 Index and satisfy certain criteria concerning quoted market value and previous 12-month performance.

The S&P/TSE Indexes were introduced in 1998 and include a MidCap and SmallCap component in addition to the S&P/TSE 60. With representatives of both S&P and TSE, the constituents from 11 different market sectors are carefully monitored for inclusion.

The addition of TSE Index Database is another in a series of FAME initiatives broadening and expanding data content services, including: I/B/E/S Global Detail Estimates, Global Aggregates and Sector and Industry Aggregates databases; the S&P/IFC Emerging Markets Database; and, through the Saladin Information Service (SIS) data platform, over-the-counter broker prices for European and Far Eastern oil products TFS (Tradition Financial Services Ltd.).

About FAME

FAME Information Services, Inc. (www.fame.com), is a global leader in Internet-enabled, decision-support solutions. In 1999, FAME introduced TimeIQ(R), a time-intelligent Java interface to all database technologies, the foundation of OpenFame, which addresses enterprise-wide information integration requirements.

Through Saladin, its energy division, FAME is the leading global player in desktop decision support for energy firms, and through Princeton Energy Programme, the leading energy-market educator in the US.

With over 350 customers in 40 countries, FAME employs 320 professionals at 15 locations worldwide, with headquarters in New York.