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