Business Services Industry

TheStreet.com Adds Bank, Thrift, Insurer and HMO Financial Ratings to Free Proprietary Screening Tool

Business Wire, April 11, 2007

NEW YORK -- TheStreet.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSCM), a leading provider of financial commentary, analysis, research, news and ratings, today announced that Ratings data on banks and thrifts, insurers and HMOs in addition to stocks, exchange traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds -- are now available for free in its proprietary Ratings Screener on the Company's free Web site, www.thestreet.com.

TheStreet.com Ratings provides financial strength ratings for more than 3,800 insurance companies including auto, homeowners, life, health, long-term care, Medicare supplement, and business insurers. Ratings are also available on more than 8,500 financial institutions nationwide, from small community banks to major national commercial banks.

Items within the Ratings Screener are searchable by several criteria, including name or ticker, company type, location, market capitalization, sector/industry, fund family/style, recommendation/rating, and risk rating.

With ratings on a scale from A (Excellent Financial Strength) to E (Very Weak Financial Strength), TheStreet.com Ratings synthesizes thousands of data points into an easy-to-understand evaluation of each company's capitalization, asset quality, profitability, liquidity, stability, and reserve adequacy summarized in a one-page report.

"With this addition of this new data to our Ratings Screener, we continue to expand the scope of free content available to the mass consumer audience," said Bruce Fador, senior vice president of professional products at TheStreet.com. "Building on the success of the stock, mutual fund and ETF offerings previously incorporated to our free site, we are confident that these additional content sets will provide valuable information as people research their financial alternatives."

About TheStreet.com, Inc.

TheStreet.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSCM) is a leading multimedia provider of business, investment and ratings content, available through its proprietary properties, which include Web sites, email subscription services, print, radio, syndication and audio and video programming. Founded in 1996, TheStreet.com, Inc. pioneered the electronic publishing of financial information on the Internet. Today, the Company offers proprietary information on stocks, mutual funds, exchange traded funds (ETFs) and financial institutions, including various insurers; HMOs; Blue Cross Blue Shield plans; banks and savings and loans. The Company's breadth of top-grade services empowers a wide audience of retail and professional investors, by delivering information they can rely upon to make sound, informed financial decisions.

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