Houston, TX, 7 November 2001 - Amerex, Prebon Yamane and FAME Energy have launched EnergyMarks, a comprehensive source for daily and historical pricing related to the North American gas and power sectors. The EnergyMarks transactional data helps traders and commercial consumers anticipate market price fluctuations in the US power and gas markets by providing leading market indicators. EnergyMarks is available exclusively through FAME Information Services.

"EnergyMarks is quickly becoming the pre-eminent transaction database for the North American Energy sector," according to Lee C. Taylor, Vice President, Prebon Energy. "The combination of data from both Prebon and Amerex constitutes the most accurate and comprehensive collection of daily pricing information available from more than half of all power and gas transactions." Taylor adds.

Mike Prokop, CIO, Amerex, concurs. "EnergyMarks is the emerging data standard for the energy industry and is the perfect solution for all market players to acquire up-to-date and historical pricing information." Prokop concludes, "If your company is performing risk analysis, VAR assessments, option volatility calculations, or FASB 133 compliance measures, you should be using EnergyMarks."

Bill Wilson, President of FAME Energy, explains that "FAME has more than a decade of experience in managing and aggregating historical energy data, and the EnergyMarks database is an exceptional extension of our current information products and services." Wilson is confident that "FAME can deliver reliable data and is pleased to have been chosen as the exclusive distributor for EnergyMarks. "

More information on EnergyMarks is available at www.fame.com/energyMarketing/energyMarks.html.

FAME Energy is a leader in time-series-based, decision-support solutions for the world's financial and energy markets, delivering enterprise information integration, managed data services and Internet-enabled analytical components and products. FAME also provides complete custom solutions for the management and analysis of historical and reference data through its professional services group. Headquartered in New York City, FAME has over 600 customers in 40 countries and employs over 350 professionals at 16 office locations. More information on FAME is available at www.fame.com.

Amerex provides voice and electronic brokerage, market liquidity, price discovery, and data services around the globe. With a proud history of innovation and leadership in developing new markets, Amerex is on the cutting edge for the creation and implementation of brokered commodities. More information on Amerex is available at www.amerexenergy.com.

Prebon Energy has broking operations in 5 offices around the world - New Jersey, London, Singapore, Australia and Amsterdam. The energy businesses within the Prebon group are treated as a separate operating division and are managed on a global basis.

The Prebon Yamane group of companies provides brokerage services for financial and commercial institutions world-wide in foreign exchange, money market, derivative, securities, energy and emerging market products. The firm, and its affiliates, comprises more than 1,800 staff located in 27 offices world-wide. For more information, visit Prebon's website at www.prebon.com.

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