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Date:Tue, 23 Oct 2001 17:12:16 -0700 (PDT)



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Stockgroup Partners With North American Quotations

NAQ Signs Agreement to Resell Stockgroup's Financial Software
and Content System

Stockgroup Information Systems Inc. (OTCBB:SWEB), a financial
media and technology company, and North American Quotations
Inc., a leading market data provider, announces the signing of a
resellers agreement.

Under the agreement NAQ will be an authorized reseller of
Stockgroup's financial software and content system. Stockgroup
provides more than 25 proprietary software objects including
real-time quotes, delayed quotes, stock charts, interactive java
charts, technical analysis, technical charts, mutual funds tools,
position-based portfolio managers, stock watch lists, intraday market
indices, stock screeners and many other tools.

The Stockgroup financial tools solutions include NAQ supplied data
on all North American exchanges and include information from
their proprietary database of 21,000 public traded companies. The
Stockgroup modular solutions are available as fully hosted solutions,
via XML or in a client-side format, which reside on the customer's
servers using application interface protocols.

NAQ's data feed customers are primarily brokerage firms, web site
operators and web developers, in addition to retail investor
customers for the NAQ real time trader service.

``NAQ has been an outstanding supplier to Stockgroup and our
companies have been great partners for years. We are excited about
our new agreement where we can combine our software and NAQ's
data feed to provide NAQ's customers with a completely integrated
financial information solution,'' stated Marcus New, CEO of
Stockgroup.

``We are excited to be working with Stockgroup,'' stated Carole
Olkowski, CFO of NAQ. ``Not only are we providing sophisticated
financial decision-making tools to our customers, Stockgroup also
offered our clients the best, most cost-effective solution in the
marketplace. They have done a tremendous job working with our
data feed.''

In addition to the reseller agreement, Stockgroup will market NAQ's
Real Time Trader Professional investor application through
Stockgroup's smallcapcenter.com investment research community.


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About NAQ

NAQ, Inc. is a privately held corporation formed in 1982. In 2001,
NAQ converted all its data sources to direct Exchange Feeds at its
Ticker Plant in London, On, Canada. NAQ provides
State-of-the-art wholesale data feeds for the financial industry. NAQ
also markets Real Time Trader Professional for Real-time streaming
data and top of the line analysis and charting for individual and
professional investors. NAQ now carries over 600,000 symbols in
its database in real-time.

About Stockgroup

Stockgroup Information Systems Inc. is a financial media and
technology company. It is a leading provider of private labeled
financial content and software solutions to media, corporate, and
financial services companies. Stockgroup employs proprietary
technologies which enable its clients to provide financial data
streams and news combined with cutting edge fundamental,
technical, productivity, and disclosure tools to their customers,
shareholders, and employees at a fraction of the cost of traditional
internal methods. Stockgroup is also a provider of Internet
communications products for publicly traded companies. Its
financial web site www.smallcapcenter.com is a state of the art
online research center for the investment community. To find out
more about Stockgroup (OTCBB:SWEB), visit our website at
www.stockgroup.com

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Contact:


Stockgroup Information Systems Inc.
Rob Attwell, 800/650-1211
rob.attwell@stockgroup.com

or

NAQ, Inc.
Carole Olkowski, 800/465-4300


Visit the Company Website at www.stockgroup.com and go to
www.theinvestoronline.com/research/sweb092501.htm to see
TheInvestorOnline Research Report.

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