Date:    12/28/1999  7:02 PM

Subject: Comment on Proposed Regulation FD

Chairman Levitt, 
     
Thank you for your proposal to provide more public disclosure of material 
information from issuers. I am an individual investor, investing for my 
retirement in stocks among other investments. After thoroughly researching a 
publicly-traded company (reading impartial(?) analysts' comments along the way) 
and making a supposedly informed decision to purchase stock and become an owner;
it is very tiresome, as well as blatantly unfair, to watch such an investment 
change drastically in value on important news available to other owners but not 
to me. This amounts to "insider trading". All investors should at least be given
the same opportunity to make informed decisions on their public investments. 
     
Sincerely,
Gregg Mead