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To: Boplicity who wrote (226)	3/17/2000 3:28:00 PM
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- bull-market.com NEWS FLASH - THE BULL MARKET REPORT ADDS B2B HOLDR'S The Bull Market Report adds the Merrill Lynch B2B Holdr's (BHH) to their B2B Portfolio. The B2B Holdr's are a basket of 20 companies whose core competencies lie within the rapidly growing Business-to-Business e-commerce space. Business-to-Business e-commerce in its purest form is, by definition, the value of goods and services purchased via the Internet by business users. For those who have missed the hype, Business-to-Business Internet commerce is projected to be $83 billion by next year. As for further down the road, Forrester research predicts $1.3 trillion a year in business-to-business e-commerce by 2003, with Goldman Sachs predicting $1.4 trillion by 2004. This is very big and in fact, these numbers may be quite low. This is nothing new -- it has been floating around the public consciousness for some time now. In fact, B2B has cooled to a degree, in the markets lately. It changes nothing about the bright future for this incredibly exciting e-commerce space. We are excited to have the opportunity to purchase such a diverse, focused basket of stocks in the B2B sector. BHH can only be bought in increments of 100 shares, because it is convertible into the actual shares of the companies, as noted below. Here are the stocks and their weightings.... B2B HOLDRs (BHH) The initial company weighting (variable) and number of shares (fixed). Ariba (ARBA) 20% 7 Internet Capital Grp(ICGE) 17% 15 Commerce One (CMRC) 14% 6 VerticalNet (VERT) 7% 3 FreeMarkets (FMKT) 6% 3 Ventro (VNTR) 5% 2 CareInsite (CARI) 4% 6 Scient (SCNT) 4% 5 CheckFree (CKFR) 4% 4 Agile Software (AGIL) 3% 2 PurchasePro.com (PPRO) 3% 2 Sterling Commerce (SE) 3% 6 SciQuest.com (SQST) 2% 3 Silknet Software (SILK) 2% 1 Retek (RETK) 2% 3 Proxicom (PXCM) 2% 4 Harbinger (HRBC) 1% 3 QRS (QRSI) 1% 1 Pegasus Systems (PEGS) 0.5% 2 ImageX.com (IMGX) 0.3% 1 No ORCL, I must be the only one on the planet that sees ORCL has a B2B company. WHY? G