MSN MoneyCentral Adds Live Market Analysis From Briefing.com; Briefing.com's Active Commentary Presented for First Time On a Non-Subscription Basis

Business Wire, May 9, 2000

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BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2000

The award-winning MSN MoneyCentral online personal finance service at http://moneycentral.msn.com/ has expanded its offerings to include the most active content by the leading Internet provider of "live" market analysis, Briefing.com (http://www.briefing.com). MSN MoneyCentral, voted the last three years running by "Barron's" as the best financial website, provides a broad range of personal finance and investment information, tools and tips to more than 10 million consumers. MSN MoneyCentral has now launched "live" versions of Briefing's popular Stock Ticker, Story Stocks(R), and Short Stories as well as an hourly version of In Play(R), the single most popular page on Briefing.com.

Stock Ticker, designed to provide very frequent updates regarding overall market action, has become the central Markets page for MSN MoneyCentral. In Play is designed to alert readers to stocks that are experiencing or are likely to experience sharp moves or heavy volume on a given trading day. Story Stocks provides analysis behind stocks in the news during the current trading session. Short Stories provides brief summaries of key news items affecting individual stocks.

The new "live" content is a significant compliment to Briefing.com analysis already presented on MSN MoneyCentral. Upgrades/Downgrades is updated three times per day with recommendations from major Wall Street brokerage firms. Briefing's Splits Calendar succinctly lists upcoming U.S. stock splits. The Economic Calendar provides a forecast by Briefing's analysts for each upcoming release. And the Events Calendar displays upcoming events of interest to equities market participants.

"MSN MoneyCentral is pleased to be the first major financial portal to provide Briefing.com's `live' market analysis to consumers," said Erik Jorgensen, product unit manager of MSN MoneyCentral. "Market participants may now find active, professional market analysis on MSN MoneyCentral at any hour of the trading day." David Beasley, VP sales and marketing for Briefing.com adds, "We're very pleased to provide our most active commentary to MSN MoneyCentral users. Up-to-the-minute market insight is simply a great thing for investors to have available."

About Briefing.com

Briefing.com (http://www.briefing.com) is an employee-owned company headquartered in Burlingame, CA with offices in Boston, Chicago and Jackson, WY, and London. Briefing.com is the only Internet company designed to provide professional quality, "live" market analysis to professionals and individuals at an affordable price. Briefing provides content to a growing number of prominent partners, including A.B. Watley (Nasdaq:ABWG), AltaVista (Nasdaq:CMGI), America Online (NYSE:AOL), AOL.com, Ameritrade (Nasdaq:AMTD), Bloomberg, L.P., BondAgent.com, Business.com, Charles Schwab(TM) (NYSE:SCH) ChineseInvestors.com, ClearStation (Nasdaq:EGRP), CMS InSite (Nasdaq:DBCC), DLJdirect (NYSE:DLJ), E*TRADE(TM) (Nasdaq:EGRP), Excite (Nasdaq:ATHM), Freeman Welwood, horsesmouth(TM), Go2Net (Nasdaq:GNET), IMX Exchange, Market Guide (Nasdaq:MLTX), MicroStrategy (Nasdaq:MSTR), The Motley Fool, MSN MoneyCentral (Nasdaq:MSFT), MyDiscountBroker.com, National Discount Brokers (NYSE:NDB), News Alert, ON24.com, OnMoney.com (Nasdaq:AMTD), Quick & Reilly(TM) (NYSE:FBF), Quicken.com(TM) (Nasdaq:INTU), Quote123.com, Quote.com (Nasdaq:LCOS), Red Herring, Scottrade, SelectBENEFIT.com, TheStreet.com (Nasdaq:TSCM) Stockpoint, SURETRADE (NYSE:FBF), the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition(TM) (NYSE:DJ), Wall Street Access, Waterhouse webBroker (NYSE:TWE), Wit Capital (Nasdaq:WITC), and Yahoo!(TM) Finance (Nasdaq:YHOO) and My Yahoo!(TM). "Barron's," "Business Week," the "Washington Post," "Kiplinger.com" and "Worth" magazine have all ranked Briefing as one of their ten top investment sites on the Web. The "Financial Times" Online Investing rated Briefing no. 3 globally. Search engine Lycos recently ranked Briefing.com the number two content site in the world under the category "Money and Investments."