Foreign-currency mortgages stress E. Europeans (AP)

Balazs Ven, a Hungarian broker smokes his cigar in front of the Bank Center in downtown Budapest, Hungary, in this Oct. 29, 2008 file picture.  Hungary's currency and stock market plunged because of the financial crisis, as investors feared Hungary would be unable to make debt payments. The forint temporarily lost some 40 percent of its value against major currencies like the U.S. dollar and the euro while shares on the Budapest Stock Exchange dropped to four-year lows.  (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, file)AP - Zsolt Kerecsen, a 34-year-old software developer with three kids and a mortgage, is no high roller. But like thousands of other middle-class Hungarians he gambled by borrowing to buy a home in Swiss francs.

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