Purchase of IDC shares

Pearson PLC
09 January 2006


09 January 2006


Pearson: purchase of IDC shares


Pearson announces that it has purchased 1,130,739 shares in Interactive Data
Corporation (NYSE:IDC), its majority-owned, publicly-quoted financial
information company.

Pearson purchased the shares from Alan Tessler, an Interactive Data director,
and related parties at a price of $21.67 per share in cash. The purchase brings
Pearson's total holding in IDC to almost 62%.

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For more information:

Luke Swanson/Deborah Lincoln        [phone]


About Interactive Data Corporation

Interactive Data Corporation is a leading global provider of securities pricing,
financial information, and analytic tools to institutional and individual
investors. The Company supplies time-sensitive pricing (including evaluated
pricing), dividend, corporate action, and descriptive information for more than
3.5 million securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value
instruments. Many of the world's best-known financial services and software
companies subscribe to the Company's services in support of their trading,
analysis, portfolio management, and valuation activities.


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