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Quadruples revenue over three-year period; launches at 2000th client firm; achieves 94% subscriber renewal rate NEW YORK, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- TheMarkets.com, a leading provider of research, estimates and workflow solutions to institutional investors worldwide, announced today that its revenues grew 55% in 2007, in keeping with its growth trend of the past four years. The Company continues to outpace the market year after year, with 2007 capping a three-year period during which TheMarkets.com more than quadrupled revenues. The Company also reported that it has expanded its unique research content, while growing its client footprint to include over 2000 firms globally. For 2007, TheMarkets.com reported a firm-record 94% renewal rate on subscriptions to its research platform. Since its launch, the platform has consistently achieved better than 90% renewal rates, reflecting customer loyalty among the leading buy-side firms using the product, including 77 of the world's largest 100 hedge funds, 38 of Europe's 50 top asset managers, 20 of the 25 largest U.S. asset managers and 32 of the world's 50 biggest private equity funds. Additionally, existing accounts significantly expanded their subscriptions to include new teams, offices and countries. One client, Pioneer Investment Management, which has used TheMarkets.com for over five years, deployed TheMarkets.com in offices in ten countries across three continents in 2007. Also last year, TheMarkets.com enhanced its research platform, launching TheMarkets.Bullseye, a search engine and alerting system, developed in partnership with InfoNgen, that combines research content with news and blogs. John Barrett, a senior equity analyst at Columbia Management and subscriber to TheMarkets.com for the past four years, notes, "I use TheMarkets.com all the time. It has the global research, estimates and models I use in my analysis and its robust searching capabilities -- especially watchlists -- make that content easy to find. Bullseye has made my watchlists even more helpful; it pulls news from a huge number of sources and puts it right alongside my research. In short, I'm getting more relevant content and spending less time searching for it with TheMarkets.com." David Eisner, CEO and President of TheMarkets.com, said, "Our growing roster of global clients, continued expansions at existing accounts and record client renewal rate testify to the breadth of our content and the ease with which clients can access it. To better serve the needs of our growing, global client base, we have focused on expanding our content offering, considerably increasing contributions from many of our partnering brokers." Recent content additions, not available on other research platforms, include several thousand earnings models covering non-U.S. companies and thousands of global fixed income reports on EMG, rates, structured products, derivatives and fixed income strategy research. Over the past year, TheMarkets.com more than doubled its employee base in New York, while also doubling its sales and client representatives in its London office for increased local support of its European clients. "TheMarkets.com has led the industry in our responsiveness to clients' needs and we will continue to provide that level of service and attention across the globe," said Eisner. About TheMarkets.com TheMarkets.com is a leading provider of research, estimates and workflow solutions to over 2000 institutional investment management firms worldwide. TheMarkets.com is owned by: Banc of America Securities, LLC (NYSE:BAC), Citi (NYSE:C), Credit Suisse (NYSE:CS), Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB), Dresdner Kleinwort, part of Dresdner Bank AG and a member of the Allianz Group (NYSE:AZ), The Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:GS), JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH), Merrill Lynch (NYSE:MER), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), UBS Investment Bank (NYSE:UBS), and Reuters (NASDAQ:RTRSYNASDAQ:LSE: RTR). CONTACT: Jasmine Swann TheMarkets.com +1 212.812.4631 DATASOURCE: TheMarkets.com CONTACT: Jasmine Swann of TheMarkets.com, +1-212-812-4631, Web site: http://www.themarkets.com/

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