424B3 1 f424b3_050602.txt PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT FILED PURSUANT TO RULE NO. 424 (b)(3) (To Prospectus dated March 12, 2002) REGISTRATION NO. 333-96063 [B2B INTERNET HOLDRS LOGO] This prospectus supplement supplements information contained in the prospectus dated March 12, 2002 relating to the sale of up to 1,000,000,000 depositary receipts by the B2B Internet HOLDRS (SM) Trust. The share amount specified in the table on page 13 of the base prospectus shall be replaced with the following:
Share Primary Name of Company Ticker Amounts Trading Market --------------- ------ ------- -------------- Agile Software Corporation AGIL 4 NASDAQ Ariba, Inc. ARBA 14 NASDAQ CheckFree Corporation CKFR 4 NASDAQ Commerce One, Inc. CMRC 12 NASDAQ FreeMarkets, Inc. FMKT 3 NASDAQ Image X, Inc. IMGX 1 NASDAQ Internet Capital Group, Inc. ICGE 15 NASDAQ Nexprise Inc. NXPS 2 NASDAQ Pegasus Solutions, Inc. PEGS 2 NASDAQ PurchasePro.com, Inc. PPRO 4 NASDAQ QRS Corporation QRSI 1 NASDAQ Retek, Inc. RETK 3 NASDAQ Scient Inc. SCNT 6.2 NASDAQ SciQuest, Inc. SQST 3 NASDAQ VerticalNet, Inc. VERT 6 NASDAQ
The share amounts listed in the table above reflect all previous stock splits, dividends and business combination transaction. The date of this prospectus supplement is March 31, 2002.