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PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
REGISTRATION NO.  333-95807
(To Prospectus dated March 11, 2009)
Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3)
 

 

 
1,000,000,000 Depositary Receipts
Telecom HOLDRS (SM) Trust
 
This prospectus supplement supplements information contained in the prospectus dated March 11, 2009 relating to the sale of up to 1,000,000,000 depositary receipts by the Telecom HOLDRS Trust.
 
The share amounts specified in the table in the “Highlights of Telecom HOLDRS” section of the base prospectus shall be replaced with the following:
 
Name of Company1
 
Ticker
 
Share
Amounts
 
Primary
Trading
Market
AT&T Inc.
 
T
  50.7721  
NYSE
BCE Inc.
 
BCE
  4.5750  
NYSE
CenturyTel, Inc.
 
CTL
  2.1374  
NYSE
Cincinnati Bell Inc.
 
CBB
  2.0000  
NYSE
Level 3 Communications, Inc.
 
LVLT
  3.0000  
NASDAQ
Qwest Communications International, Inc.
 
Q
  12.9173  
NYSE
Special Common Shares ‘TDS’
 
TDS.S
  1.0000  
NYSE
Sprint Nextel Corporation
 
S
  16.6050  
NYSE
Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.
 
TDS
  1.0000  
NYSE
Verizon Communications Inc.
 
VZ
  21.7600  
NYSE
Windstream Corporation
 
WIN
  2.0679  
NYSE

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 November 3, 2009.
 
 


1 Effective October 26, 2009, FairPoint Communications Inc., an underlying constituent of the Telecom HOLDRS Trust (the “Trust”), was delisted from trading on NYSE.  Pursuant to the prospectus for the Trust, if FairPoint Communications Inc. is not listed for trading on another national securities exchange, or through NASDAQ, within five business days from the date it is delisted, it shall be distributed by The Bank of New York Mellon.  The rate of distribution is 0.0041 FairPoint Communications Inc. shares per Telecom HOLDRS.  The record date and pay date for the distribution shall be November 9, 2009 and November 13, 2009, respectively.