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FILE NO. 333-13649
RULE 424(B)(3)
PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
(TO PROSPECTUS DATED JANUARY 6, 1997)
(TO PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT DATED JANUARY 6, 1997)
PROSPECTUS NUMBER: 1480
DATED: MARCH 18, 1997
MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC.
MEDIUM-TERM NOTES, SERIES B
DUE NINE MONTHS OR MORE FROM DATE OF ISSUE
FLOATING RATE NOTES
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BASE RATE: Prime (Prior Day H.15)
INDEX MATURITY: One Day
TRADE DATE: March 18, 1997
SETTLEMENT DATE: March 21, 1997
MATURITY DATE: March 23, 1998
REDEMPTION DATE: N/A
OPTIONAL REPAYMENT DATES: N/A
SPREAD: -2.790%
(less two hundred seventy nine bps)
SPREAD MULTIPLIER: N/A
MAXIMUM INTEREST RATE: N/A
MINIMUM INTEREST RATE: N/A
INTEREST RESET DATES: Daily
INTEREST PAYMENT DATES: The twenty-third of March, June, September and December commencing
June 1997 through Maturity, subject to Following Business Day
Convention.
INITIAL INTEREST RATE: TBD, March 20, 1997
FORM: Book-entry
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