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PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
REGISTRATION NO.  333-31226
(To Prospectus dated August 15, 2007)
Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3)

 
 
1,000,000,000 Depositary Receipts
Broadband HOLDRS (SM) Trust

This prospectus supplement supplements information contained in the prospectus dated August 15, 2007 relating to the sale of up to 1,000,000,000 depositary receipts by the Broadband HOLDRS (SM) Trust.
 
The share amounts specified in the table in the “Highlights of Broadband HOLDRS” section of the base prospectus shall be replaced with the following:
 
Name of Company
  
Ticker
  
Share
Amounts
  
Primary
Trading
Market
Applied Micro Circuits Corporation(1)
  
AMCC
  
.5
  
NASDAQ
Broadcom Corporation CL A
  
BRCM
  
3
  
NASDAQ
Ciena Corporation
  
CIEN
  
0.2857
  
NASDAQ
Conexant Systems, Inc.
  
CNXT
  
2
  
NASDAQ
Corning, Inc.
  
GLW
  
9
  
NYSE
JDS Uniphase Corporation
  
JDSU
  
1.475
  
NASDAQ
Alcatel-Lucent
  
ALU
  
5.6608
  
NYSE
LSI Corporation
  
LSI
  
1.7247
  
NYSE
Motorola, Inc.
  
MOT
  
18
  
NYSE
Mindspeed Technologies
  
MSPD
  
0.6667
  
NASDAQ
Nortel Networks Corporation
  
NT
  
2.8
  
NYSE
PMC-Sierra, Inc.
  
PMCS
  
1
  
NASDAQ
Qualcomm Incorporated
  
QCOM
  
16
  
NASDAQ
RF Micro Devices, Inc.
  
RFMD
  
2
  
NASDAQ
Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
  
SWKS
  
0.702
  
NASDAQ
Sycamore Networks, Inc.
  
SCMR
  
3
  
NASDAQ
Tellabs, Inc.
  
TLAB
  
4
  
NASDAQ
 

(1)           Effective December 11, 2007, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation began trading under the NASDAQ ticker “AMCCD.”
 
Effective December 13, 2007, deposits of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ ticker “AMCCD”), an underlying constituent of the Broadband HOLDRS Trust, for creation of Broadband HOLDRS, decreased to 0.5 shares per round lot of 100 Broadband HOLDRS due to the 1 for 4 reverse stock split of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation.
 
Effective January 10, 2008, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ ticker “AMCCD”), an underlying constituent of the Broadband HOLDRS Trust, changed its ticker symbol back to “AMCC.”
 

 
 

 

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 December 31, 2007.