IDC Interactive Data Corp.

eSignal, a 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 the release of eSignal� 10.2, the latest upgrade to its award-winning flagship software. eSignal 10.2 includes a number of upgrades and new features, which were added in response to active user feedback. More specifically, the new Forex Window has been designed to meet the needs of currency traders. This new window within the eSignal software features the flags from relevant countries to denote each side of the currency pair and raised digits, which represent the most important, last two numbers of the bid and ask. The Forex Window also allows traders to trade currencies while watching gains and losses without having to close the window or view a different screen. Additionally, eSignal Pro 10.2 features Morningstar� (NASDAQ:MORN) Reports, which provide detailed analyst reports on more than 2,000 mutual funds and include useful data such as analyst picks, stewardship grades and fund family scores. With Morningstar Reports active traders will have access to in-depth analyst reports for more than 150 well-known and niche Exchange Traded Funds, including buying and selling prices and expected return figures. Other enhancements for version 10.2 include intraday split-adjusted charts, a more attractive and user-friendly interface, a more useful symbol search window that allows users to export information directly to a quote window, making it easier to utilize search results, and various performance enhancements to improve access to streaming trades and quotes. �The real beauty of this latest version of the eSignal software is that each of the upgrades is aimed at enabling those people in the trenches who are using the product day-by-day and minute-by-minute to thrive,� said Chuck Thompson, president of eSignal. �Not only did we add robust new features to version 10.2, but also took it to the next level by providing a product which runs faster and more smoothly than it ever has before.� eSignal 10.2 continues to provide traders with the tools for which eSignal has become known while increasing accessibility and improving the entire user experience. With flexibility to choose among supported brokers, monitoring of orders and positions, powerful decision-support tools, improved peak volume throughput, QLink and CID, direct subscribers around the globe will continue to have the speed and freedom to take advantage of today�s dynamic markets. Availability: eSignal 10.2, eSignal Pro and eSignal, Advanced GET Edition are currently available. For more information, including pricing and a complete list of product features, please visit eSignal�s website at www.eSignal.com or call 510.723.1765. About Interactive Data: 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 real-time market data, time-sensitive pricing, evaluations and reference data for millions of 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, the Company has approximately 2,300 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The Company is headquartered in Bedford, Mass. Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO; LSE: PSON), an international media company, whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group, is Interactive Data Corporation's majority stockholder. Interactive Data Corporation is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2008. Interactive Data(SM) and the Interactive Data logo are service marks of Interactive Data Corporation. For more information about Interactive Data Corporation and its businesses, please visit www.interactivedata.com. About eSignal: eSignal (www.eSignal.com), Interactive Data Corporation�s (NYSE: IDC) desktop solutions business, is a leading global provider of financial and business information to professional traders and active individual traders. Building on a legacy of 25 years 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(SM), QCharts�, LiveCharts�, Market-Q(SM) and the Web portals FutureSource.com, Quote.com� and RagingBull.com. eSignal Formula Script(SM) and EFS(SM) are service marks of Interactive Data Corporation Morningstar� is a registered trademark of Morningstar, Inc.