Prudential-Bache seads its brokers out to customers' homes to do a financial plan free of charge.

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"It's too late to get out and too early to buy in, " says Robert Rountree, managing director of Prudential-Bache Securities in Hong Kong.

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Robert Rountree, regional economist for Prudential-Bache Securities in Hong Kong, agrees.

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Robert Rountree of Prudential-Bache Securities in Hong Kong isn't so sure.

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"Fiscal stimulus can temporarily lift GDP growth but it has little impact on consumer confidence, " says Robert Rountree, regional strategist at Prudential-Bache Securities in Hong Kong.

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Howard Wheeldon, who covers capital goods for Prudential-Bache, thinks the stock is a bargain, but he has stopped covering the company because of a lack of interest from his clients--a positive sign for contrarian investors.

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He was, by turns, part of an air rescue squad during the Vietnam War, founder of what became the nation's largest custom-prosthetic-device company, a ski bum, a bureaucrat in the Carter Administration and a stockbroker for Prudential-Bache Securities.

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