Hungarians Battle to Keep Homes in Face of Strong Swiss Franc
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Melinda Nagy, a Hungarian special education teacher who knows little about financial markets, has started to lose sleep over exchange rates.
Nagy’s payments on her Swiss-franc denominated mortgage almost doubled after the Hungarian forint dropped 35 percent since 2008 against the Alpine nation’s currency, forcing her to clean houses and work at a chicken ranch to avoid foreclosure.