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In a move to establish a new platform to communicate proprietary equity information, seven of the world's largest investment banks - Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Salomon Smith Barney, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Banc Alex Brown, and UBS Warburg - have announced an agreement to create "TheMarkets.com," a portal for institutional investors that offers commingled equity research, new issue information, news, and market data.