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: 1497
DATED: APRIL 14, 1997
MERRILL LYNCH & CO., INC.
MEDIUM-TERM NOTES, SERIES B
DUE NINE MONTHS OR MORE FROM DATE OF ISSUE
FLOATING RATE NOTES
BASE RATE: Prime (Prior Day H.15)
INDEX MATURITY: One Day
TRADE DATE: April 14, 1997
SETTLEMENT DATE: April 17, 1997
MATURITY DATE: April 17, 1998
REDEMPTION DATE: N/A
OPTIONAL REPAYMENT DATES: N/A
SPREAD: -2.780%
(minus two hundred seventy eight bps)
SPREAD MULTIPLIER: N/A
MAXIMUM INTEREST RATE: N/A
MINIMUM INTEREST RATE: N/A
INTEREST RESET DATES: Daily
INTEREST PAYMENT DATES: The seventeenth of July, October, January and April commencing July 1997
through Maturity, subject to Following Business Day Convention.
INITIAL INTEREST RATE: TBD April 16, 1997
FORM: Book-entry