Date:    12/18/1999  10:06 AM

Subject: Equalitry of access
 
 To the SEC                                                                   
                                              As a small investor I wish to 
strongly encourage the manditory equality of access to all company news 
releases and information disclosure. I resent the view that closely held 
company information is to metered out to a cadre of selected elite who then 
use this information to the advantage of selected clients. This fosters a 
less than arms length relationship between the analysts and the companies. 
This has ,if not the reality of corruption of the independence  of the 
analysts, it certainly presents that appearance. The analysts ,like ceasarr's 
wife ,should be above reproach and even the appearence of impropriety is 
unacceptable. The SEC ,in the face of widening ownership of equities in more 
households,is charged with the job of maintaining the faith of the small 
investor in the fairness of the system.If  belief in this part of the system 
fails ,the way that it has in other parts of the system ( ie.poor  voter 
turnout) it will undermine efficient use of capital that fuels our system . K 
Hunter