horsesmouth to Provide Stockbrokers with Premium Market Guide Reports.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 1998--horsesmouth, LLC, the stockbrokers' online community, today announced an agreement with Market Guide Inc. (NASD: MARG) through which Market Guide's premium "Company Profiles" will be accessible on an unlimited basis to horsesmouth's members.

horsesmouth is the nation's only private online community for registered stockbrokers (http://www.horsesmouth.com). The company was founded by veteran stockbroker and branch manager William F. Nicklin and his son William T. Nicklin, a former analyst with the world's leading IT research & advisory firm. horsesmouth provides member brokers with unprecedented business development resources, high-end independent research, and professional development resources. horsesmouth presents the work of a broad range of partners: leading market and industry experts including George Gilder, Ed Hyman, Perrin Long and John Bollinger; leading organizations such as Ernst & Young LLP, the Financial Services Compliance Network, and Etiquette International; and data sources including Market Guide.

"In addition to addressing a broad range of broker-specific needs, horsesmouth is beginning to build partnerships with leading financial information providers," said Managing Director William T. Nicklin.

"Choosing to work with Market Guide was very easy: their Company Profile Report represents an industry best-of-breed by virtue of its reliable content and highly effective presentation," Nicklin said.

Market Guide's Company Profile Reports, typically $2.50 per report at the Market Guide website, will be provided within the horsesmouth web site at no additional charge to members.

"We believe Market Guide's relationship with horsesmouth will lead even more brokers to become acquainted with our high-quality information," said Homi Byramji, president and chief executive officer of the Lake Success, N.Y.-based financial database company. "horsesmouth is becoming a significant communications and information medium within the brokerage community, and we are thrilled to be part of it."

Market Guide Inc. is a financial database company specializing in the compilation, integration, display and delivery of a superior quality database of descriptive and analytic information on over 10,500 publicly traded domestic and foreign corporations. Well known to professional investors for 15 years, the company distributes its services through over 60 on-line vendors, independent finance oriented websites including DBC (Nasdaq: DBCC), Individual Investor Group (Nasdaq: INDI), Lycos (Nasdaq: LCOS), PC Quote (Nasdaq: PQT), Pointcast Prodigy, Quote.com, and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), as well as through its own web site - The Market Guide Investment Center (http://www.marketguide.com).

CONTACT: horsesmouth, LLC, New York

William T. Nicklin

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