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YESTERDAY'S NEWS MarketWatch.com Inks Agreements with Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, Conde Nast's CondeNet, and ClearStation PR Newswire - November 23, 1998 11:30 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The CBS.MarketWatch.com Web site (http://cbs.marketwatch.com) today announced that it has entered into online content agreements with Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, ClearStation, and CNCurrency.com, a service of Conde Nast's CondeNet. MarketWatch.com has also recently announced content agreements with Intuit's Quicken.com, Motorola and Hoover's. Larry Kramer, President and CEO of MarketWatch.com, said, "Our job is to cover the markets in real time, and we are pleased to be working with high quality major media outlets like CondeNet and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive and innovative stock advisory sites like ClearStation. Their recognition of our leadership role in providing high-quality and fast online financial news is gratifying." The agreements will allow the CBS.MarketWatch.com Web site to continue delivering diversified and informative financial content to an expanded Internet audience. Personal finance information from MarketWatch.com will be available through the CNCurrency site, washingtonpost.com and Newsweek.com. MarketWatch.com will also incorporate 27 ClearStation articles on stock evaluation, and ClearStation will incorporate 10 MarketWatch daily news articles into its forthcoming "Market News and Commentary" module. "We are thrilled that the CBS MarketWatch.com service is making ClearStation's education articles available to its large investor audience," said Kris Skrinak, ClearStation's president and CEO. "We hope the added education will help MarketWatch readers make use of trending, timing and graph-reading analysis in their investment decision-making." "Our association with MarketWatch adds a great service to CNCurrency.com that our users will benefit from whether they're investing for the first time or managing their retirement funds," said Tricia Viscardi, Director of Marketing at CondeNet. "We are excited that CNCurrency.com is associated with such a prominent financial news organization -- it enhances our commitment to creating a full service personal finance resource." About the CBS.MarketWatch.com Web Site CBS.MarketWatch.com, cbs.marketwatch.com , (a service of MarketWatch.com, LLC) is a leading World Wide Web financial site, where individual and professional investors turn for breaking news, expert analysis and market data. The editorial team contributes financial and economic reports to the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH DAN RATHER and CBS News' THIS MORNING. The site was recently named the number two investment Web site by Barron's. MarketWatch.com was launched on Oct. 29, 1997, as a joint venture between CBS Broadcasting Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS), and Data Broadcasting Corporation, dbc.com , (Nasdaq: DBCC), the country's leading provider of real-time financial and market information for the individual investor. MarketWatch.com is headquartered in San Francisco and has bureaus in New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and London. SOURCE MarketWatch.com, LLC /CONTACT: Richard J. Berman of Middleberg + Associates, 212-888-6610, or richard@middleberg.com, for MarketWatch.com, LLC/ /Web site: cbs.marketwatch.com (CBS DBCC)