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EDGAR Online Partners with TheMarkets.com to Offer its I-Metrix Professional to 1400 Buy-Side Firms Worldwide

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SOUTH NORWALK, CT – AUGUST 9, 2006 – EDGAR® Online®, Inc. (Nasdaq: EDGR) announced today it has entered into an agreement with TheMarkets.com, a premier provider of global research and estimates, to offer EDGAR Online’s I-Metrix Professional products to the 1400 buy-side client firms of TheMarkets.com.

“Sophisticated investors seek equally sophisticated tools to help them locate the information they want, when they want and in the format that they want,” said Susan Strausberg, CEO and President of EDGAR Online, Inc. “The addition of I-Metrix solutions for TheMarkets.com clients brings that power.”

“Through this agreement, our clients who subscribe to I-Metrix will gain an in-depth view of public company performance—and the ability to perform comprehensive analysis—through the seamless integration of new and historical fundamental data into Microsoft Excel” said David Eisner, CEO and President of TheMarkets.com. “Our clients demand tools that help them save time in making their investment decisions; it has always been our goal to meet that need through our product. By offering I-Metrix Professional to our clients, we can give them another way to save time in their workflow—meeting our goals and theirs.”

TheMarkets.com is a global research and estimates platform, featuring real-time research from hundreds of brokers, earnings models in Excel, and seamless links into the proprietary websites of the world’s leading investment banks.

EDGAR Online’s I-Metrix is next-generation, Web-enabled business intelligence software that provides the ability to analyze XBRL and as-reported data points from companies’ financial statements. Coverage includes U.S. securities, including public, private and non-U.S. companies who report financials to the SEC. I-Metrix Professional provides an add-in for Microsoft® Excel that eliminates the need for clients to manually key data into spreadsheets, saving significant amounts of time and avoiding random errors that often occur with manual data entry.

About EDGAR® Online®, Inc.
EDGAR Online, Inc. (NASDAQ: EDGR), www.edgar-online.com, is a leading provider of value-added business and financial information on global companies to financial, corporate and advisory professionals. The company makes its information and a variety of analysis tools available via online subscriptions and licensing agreements to a large user base.