IDC Interactive Data Corp.

eSignal, the desktop solutions division of Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) and a leading provider of streaming, real-time financial market data, news, analytics and decision-support tools for professional and individual traders, today announced that it has received significant recognition by three leading financial industry trade publications and organizations: Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities, Trade2Win (T2W) and United Kingdom (UK)-based Shares magazine. Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities recognized eSignal with the following 2006 Readers� Choice awards: Winner: �Real-Time Data� and �Delayed Data� Categories for eSignal� 7 Series; 1st Runner Up: �Institutional Platform,� �Professional Platform� and �Subscription Internet Analytical Platform� categories; Finalist: �Software > $1,000� category; and Semi-finalist: �Trading Centers, Schools and Training� category. In addition, eSignal�s Advanced GET� product was named as 1st Runner Up in the �Software > $1,000,� �Trading Systems-Futures� and �Trading Systems-Stocks� categories. eSignal also received multiple high honors from Trade2Win (T2W), a leading community website for active traders in the UK. T2W�s 2006 Readers� Choice Awards recognized eSignal with Gold Medals for �Best Real-Time Data Feed,� �Best End-of-Day (EOD) Data Feed,� �Best Software for UK Intra-Day Traders,� and �Best Software for U.S. EOD Traders.� eSignal received Silver Medals for �Best Software for UK EOD Traders,� �Best Software for U.S. Intra-Day Traders� and �Best Portfolio Management Software.� eSignal�s Advanced GET received the Gold Medal for �Best A.I. Software (Expert Systems/Neural Networks).� Advanced GET was also the recipient of the prestigious �Product of the Year� designation from Shares magazine, one of the UK�s leading investment and trading magazines. �It is gratifying for us to be recognized for our best-in-class products and services by the readers of the Trade2Win community, Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine and Shares magazine,� said Chuck Thompson, president of eSignal. �We at eSignal are continually working to expand and improve our offerings, using our sophisticated technology to deliver market news, charts and analytical information in bold and relevant ways for the benefit of the investor community.� eSignal is a global leader in delivering real-time market information, providing market data and decision support tools, and developing advanced trading workstations for a wide range of investors. The company�s flagship eSignal product delivers continually updating, time-sensitive financial data and information to the PCs and laptops of active and professional traders world-wide. eSignal�s Advanced GET product suite includes the award-winning Advanced GET Real-Time and End-of-Day software and Advanced GET Scanner. eSignal Pro� is a market data solution that caters to the professional trader, while the company�s FutureSource� product suite and www.FutureSource.com portal site serves the futures, energy and foreign exchange trading community. eSignal�s QuoTrek� delivers global, real-time information to mobile handhelds. Quote.com� offers streaming decision and support tools for traders, a financial news and analysis website and the Raging Bull� online investment community and message board site. About eSignal: eSignal (www.esignal.com), Interactive Data�s (NYSE: IDC) desktop solutions business, is a leading global provider of financial and business information to professional and active individuals. Building on a 20-year legacy of delivering time-sensitive financial information, eSignal provides streaming, real-time market data, news and analytics. eSignal's suite of products includes eSignal�, Advanced GET�, QuoTrek�, FutureSource�, MarketCenter LIVE�, QCharts�, LiveCharts�, and the Web portals MarketCenter.com, FutureSource.com, Quote.com� and RagingBull.com�. Interactive DataSM and the Interactive Data logo are service marks of Interactive Data Corporation.