The trust will hold shares of common stock issued by 20 specified companies generally considered to be involved in various aspects of the B2B segment of the Internet industry. The B2B, or business to business, segment of the Internet industry, consists of Internet companies whose products and services are developed for and marketed to companies who conduct business and electronic commerce on the Internet with other companies. The number of shares of each common stock held by the trust with respect to each round-lot of B2B Internet HOLDRS is specified under "Highlights of B2B Internet HOLDRS--The B2B Internet HOLDRS." This group of common stocks is referred to as the underlying securities. Except when a reconstitution event occurs, the underlying securities will not change
Name of Company Ticker Amounts Weightings Market
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INTERNET CAPITAL GROUP, ICGE 15 19.22% NASDAQ
ARIBA, INC. ARBA 7 18.75% NASDAQ
COMMERCE ONE, INC. CMRC 6 11.87% NASDAQ
VERTICALNET, INC.(/1/) VERT 3 6.72% NASDAQ
FREEMARKETS, INC. FMKT 3 6.51% NASDAQ
CAREINSITE, INC. CARI 6 4.77% NASDAQ
SCIENT CORPORATION SCNT 5 4.52% NASDAQ
CHECKFREE HOLDINGS CKFR 4 3.96% NASDAQ
CHEMDEX CORPORATION(/2/) CMDX 2 3.55% NASDAQ
AGILE SOFTWARE AGIL 2 3.34% NASDAQ
STERLING COMMERCE, INC. SE 6 2.99% NYSE
PURCHASEPRO.COM, INC. PPRO 2 2.63% NASDAQ
SILKNET SOFTWARE, INC. SILK 1 2.34% NASDAQ
SCIQUEST.COM, INC. SQST 3 2.34% NASDAQ
PROXICOM, INC.(/4/) PXCM 2 1.92% NASDAQ
RETEK, INC. RETK 3 1.87% NASDAQ
QRS CORPORATION QRSI 1 0.98% NASDAQ
HARBINGER CORPORATION HRBC 3 0.97% NASDAQ
PEGASUS SYSTEMS, INC. PEGS 2 0.49% NASDAQ
IMAGEX.COM, INC. IMGX 1 0.26% NASDAQ
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