IDC Interactive Data Corp.

Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC), a leading provider of financial market data, analytics, and related services, today announced the launch of Market-QSM, a powerful new web-based real-time market data desktop solution designed for financial institutions. Market-Q provides off-trading-floor financial professionals, including retail brokers, wealth managers, financial planners, and traditional back-office users in customer relations with comprehensive financial data and sophisticated tools designed to help increase efficiency and assist them in making informed investment and financial decisions. This new real-time market data desktop service offers an easily deployable web-based platform that combines custom workspaces, interactive charts, an embedded browser for research, option chains, a market depth feature, searchable news, alerts and data export capabilities in a single application. Market-Q can be accessed anywhere via a Web browser, with no software download required. Market-Q also offers dynamic charts with an extensive library of studies and drawing tools, as well as streaming news from leading sources such as Dow Jones, COMTEX and AFX. Market-Q�s research feature contains comprehensive company descriptive data, including corporate actions and reorganizations, current and historical fundamental financial data, third-party commentary and analytics. Available financial data feeds include a broad range of global and domestic exchanges and indices, historical pricing data, fixed income data, commodities, exchange-traded equities and derivative securities. As an administrative tool, Market-Q allows for individual entitlement, easy account management and comprehensive reporting. �Market-Q leverages the strengths resident across Interactive Data, including our ability to develop affordable web-based real-time market data platforms; high-quality financial market data, and sophisticated analytic tools, each of which is complemented by our in-depth knowledge of the institutional marketplace,� said Ray D�Arcy, president of sales, marketing and institutional business development at Interactive Data. �By providing a comprehensive real-time market data desktop solution in one flexible, easy-to-use platform, we believe that we can help financial professionals work more efficiently and assist them in making informed decisions.� Market-Q Features Full workstation or HTML componentized supported. Custom workspaces that let users track commonly traded investments. Wide range of interactive, dynamic charts that graph real-time, streaming data. Streaming quotes that show data on a broad spectrum of global and domestic asset classes. Searchable, real-time financial news from leading sources. Embedded browser for research. Customized price, volume, bid/ask alerts. Option chains, including dynamic options and futures options chains. Market Depth and Time-and-Sales windows. Fixed Income window. Availability Market-Q was designed by Interactive Data�s eSignal business in collaboration with the company�s Pricing and Reference Data business. Product support will be provided by eSignal. For additional information, call 800.542.5439. About Interactive Data Corporation Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors. The Company�s businesses supply time-sensitive pricing, evaluations and reference data for more than 3.5 million securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value instruments. Many of the world's best-known financial service and software companies subscribe to the Company's services in support of their trading, analysis, portfolio management and valuation activities. Through its businesses, Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Interactive Data Real-Time Services, Interactive Data Fixed Income Analytics and eSignal, Interactive Data has approximately 2,200 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, and is headquartered in Bedford, MA. Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO; LSE:PSON), an international media company, whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group, owns approximately 62 percent of the outstanding common stock of Interactive Data Corporation. For more information, please visit www.interactivedata.com. Interactive DataSM, the Interactive Data logo and Market-QSM are service marks of Interactive Data Corporation.