NEW YORK, May 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Separate Editions Deliver Specialized Pre-Market Content to Corporate Bond, Eurobond & Emerging Market Professionals Who Use the MarketAxess Trading Platform or Corporate BondTicker(TM) Service

MarketAxess, the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for U.S. and European high-grade corporate bonds, emerging markets bonds and other types of fixed-income securities, has partnered with Dow Jones & Co. to create AxessDaily, a daily newsletter to be delivered via e-mail to users of the MarketAxess trading platform or Corporate BondTicker(TM) service. AxessDaily is to be published in three separate editions with specialized content to give Corporate Bond, Eurobond and Emerging Market institutional trading professionals a head-start on their trading day with a concise market-wrap prior to opening.

"MarketAxess is committed to providing best-in-class data, information and analytics, in the most timely, user-friendly way to our clients that complements our core electronic credit trading offering and the AxessDaily newsletter service clearly meets that hurdle," said Stephen Davidson, Head of Global Marketing & Investor Relations for MarketAxess. "Each daily issue of AxessDaily, whether it be the Corporate Bond, Eurobond or Emerging Markets edition, gives our clients a concise, pre-market briefing of critical market news, events and pricing information-all essential information our clients can use immediately to help them execute their trading strategies."

AxessDaily is to include calendar and news stories from Dow Jones as well as exclusive pricing, volume, and spread information from MarketAxess.

AxessDaily - Corporate Bond edition features: -- Complete G7 calendar. -- Top breaking news of the morning. -- News highlights on the market, economy and new bond issues. -- Most active high-grade and high-yield by volume. -- Top 10 high yield-prices (price increases & decreases). -- Top 10 high-grade spreads (tighteners and wideners vs. benchmark Treasury bond yields). AxessDaily - Emerging Markets edition features: -- Complete overview of what's happening in key emerging markets. -- Regional news roundups from Latin America, Asia and Eastern and Western Europe. -- 5 most active emerging markets bonds on the MarketAxess trading platform. -- Indicative price gainers and losers from the prior MarketAxess trading day. AxessDaily - Eurobond edition features: -- Complete G7 calendar. -- U.S. market wrap-up from the prior day. -- Top breaking news of the morning. -- News highlights on the market, economy and new bond issues.

"By partnering with Dow Jones, a leader in business journalism, MarketAxess is creating a superior information tool for our clients," added Mr. Davidson. "With a daily feed of timely news related to the global fixed-income markets, and our Corporate BondTicker(TM) pricing information, our clients will have an information advantage when the markets open - and at no added cost."

For more information or to become a client of MarketAxess, visit http://www.marketaxess.com or call +1-212-813-6287.

ABOUT MARKETAXESS

MarketAxess (Nasdaq: MKTX) operates one of the leading platforms for the electronic trading of corporate bonds and certain other types of fixed-income securities, serving as an electronic platform through which our more than 670 active institutional investor clients can access the liquidity provided by our 30 broker-dealer clients. MarketAxess' multi-dealer trading platform allows our institutional investor clients to simultaneously request competitive, executable bids or offers from multiple broker-dealers, and to execute trades with the broker-dealer of their choice. MarketAxess offers our clients the ability to trade U.S. high-grade corporate bonds, European high-grade corporate bonds, credit default swaps, agencies, high-yield and emerging markets bonds. MarketAxess also provides data and analytical tools that help our clients make trading decisions, and we facilitate the trading process by electronically communicating order information between trading counterparties. Our DealerAxess(R) trading service allows dealers to trade fixed-income securities with each other on our platform.

ABOUT DOW JONES

Dow Jones & Company (http://www.dowjones.com) is a subsidiary of News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; http://www.newscorp.com). Dow Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones owns 50% of SmartMoney and 33% of Stoxx Ltd. and provides news content radio stations in the U.S.

Web site: http://www.dowjones.com

Adam Wade of Dow Jones Financial Information Services, +1-415-439-6666, adam.wade@dowjones.com