424B3 1 f424b3_051106-market.txt PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT REGISTRATION NO. 333-37980 (To Prospectus dated February 17, 2006) Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) [HOLDRS MARKET 2000+ LOGO] 1,000,000,000 Depositary Receipts Market 2000+ HOLDRS (SM) Trust This prospectus supplement supplements information contained in the prospectus dated February 17, 2006 relating to the sale of up to 1,000,000,000 depositary receipts by the Market 2000+ HOLDRS (SM) Trust. The share amounts specified in the table in the "Highlights of Market 2000+ HOLDRS" section of the base prospectus shall be replaced with the following:
Share Primary Name of Company Ticker Amounts Trading Market ----------------------------------------------- ------------- ------------- ---------------- Agere Systems Inc. AGR 0.110136986 NYSE American International Group, Inc. AIG 2 NYSE Astrazeneca p.l.c. * AZN 4 NYSE AT&T Inc. T 4.935304 NYSE AVAYA Inc. AV 0.3333 NYSE BellSouth Corporation BLS 5 NYSE BP p.l.c. * BP 3 NYSE Bristol-Myers Squibb Company BMY 3 NYSE BT Group p.l.c. BT 2 NYSE CBS Corporation Class B "New" CBS 1.5 NYSE Cisco Systems, Inc. CSCO 3 NASDAQ Citigroup Inc. C 3 NYSE Comcast Corporation CMCSA 1.941 NASDAQ The Coca-Cola Company KO 3 NYSE Dell Inc. DELL 5 NASDAQ Deutsche Telekom AG * DT 5 NYSE Eli Lilly and Company LLY 2 NYSE EMC Corporation EMC 2 NYSE Exxon Mobil Corporation XOM 4 NYSE France Telecom * FTE 2 NYSE General Electric Company GE 3 NYSE GlaxoSmithKline p.1.c. GSK 3 NYSE Hewlett-Packard Company HPQ 4 NYSE Home Depot, Inc. HD 4 NYSE Intel Corporation INTC 2 NASDAQ International Business Machines Corporation IBM 2 NYSE JDS Uniphase Corporation JDSU 2 NASDAQ Johnson & Johnson JNJ 4 NYSE LM Ericsson Telephone Company * ERICY 0.9 NASDAQ Lucent Technologies Inc. LU 4 NYSE McDATA Corporation MCDTA 0.073613802 NASDAQ Medco Health Solutions MHS 0.3618 NYSE Merck & Co., Inc. MRK 3 NYSE Microsoft Corporation MSFT 6 NASDAQ Morgan Stanley MWD 2 NYSE (continued on following page)
Share Primary Name of Company Ticker Amounts Trading Market ----------------------------------------------- ------------- ------------- ---------------- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation * NTT 3 NYSE Nokia Corp. * NOK 4 NYSE Nortel Networks Corporation NT 2 NYSE Novartis AG * NVS 5 NYSE Oracle Corporation ORCL 4 NASDAQ Pfizer Inc. PFE 4 NYSE Qwest Communications International Inc. Q 4 NYSE Royal Dutch Petroleum Company * RD 3 NYSE Sony Corporation * SNE 2 NYSE Sun Microsystems, Inc. SUNW 4 NASDAQ Syngenta AG SYT 1.038608908 NYSE Texas Instruments Incorporated TXN 3 NYSE The St. Paul Travelers Companies, Inc. STA 0.17158726 NYSE Time Warner Inc. TWX 6 NYSE TOTAL S.A. * TOT 2 NYSE Toyota Motor Corporation * TM 2 NYSE Verizon Communications VZ 4 NYSE Viacom Inc. Class B "New" VIA.B 1.5 NYSE Vodafone Airtouch p.l.c. * VOD 5 NYSE Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT 4 NYSE Zimmer Holdings, Inc. ZMH 0.3 NYSE
------------------------------------ * The securities of these non-U.S. companies trade in the United States as American Depositary Receipts. Please see "Risk Factors" and "United States Federal Income Tax Consequences--Special considerations with respect to underlying securities of foreign issuers" for additional information relating to an investment in a non-U.S. company. The share amounts listed in the table above reflect all previous stock splits, dividends and business combination transactions. The date of this prospectus supplement is March 31, 2006.