Subject: File No. S7-05-00. Date: 03/10/2000 3:53 PM Zacks Investment Research Inc. strongly objects to the proposed elimination of the Financial Data Schedule (FDS). The FDS contains the only consistent and comparable data found in the 10-K and 10-Q filings. Zacks has invested significant resources into integrating the the FDS data schedules into a quantitative database going back to 1994. The FDS fundamentals are an extremely timely source of corporate fundamental data. Our clients: institutional money managers, investment bankers, financial analysts, students, professors, corporate investor relations professionals and individual investors use Zacks' efforts to provide FDS databases to assist them in their equity analysis. Zacks' corporate users include Microsoft, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Strong Funds, Yahoo! & Intuit. We also provide our databases to many academic and nonprofit users. We sincerely hope you take this request into consideration. Steven M. Scala Product Manager Zacks Investment Research Inc. 155 N. Wacker Drive Suite 300 Chicago, Il. 60606