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...dash for the bank to refinance. The Mortgage Bankers Association forecasts that rates will hover around 6% for the rest of the year. Keep in mind that a 6% mortgage is still a better deal than those we have seen for most of the past 30 years. --By Barbara Kiviat...
...leads to a sunny disposition and a more optimistic outlook on prospects. There's no money in sunny, though. Transaction costs will probably erase any benefit gained trading on nice days. The real lesson: "Somebody out there is trading on emotion," says Shumway. "That shouldn't be you." --By Barbara Kiviat...
...German government; German retailer KarstadtQuelle, which acquired Hertie in 1999 and claims to be the corporate successor to Wertheim; the Jewish Claims Conference, an official body that acts on behalf of Jewish Holocaust survivors and the heirs of victims; and some descendants of the Wertheim family led by Barbara Principe, who allege in U.S. federal court that they were swindled out of their inheritance in the 1950s. More than 2 million claims for property restitution in eastern Germany were filed after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and hundreds of cases are still pending. But the Wertheim case is highly...
...suit in a New Jersey court on behalf of the Wertheim family helped to unearth some of these details. "What you don't see a lot of - and what makes this alarming - is that the government is writing checks." If the government isn't talking, Osen and his client Barbara Principe are. She's a 70-year-old mother of seven children who grew up on a chicken farm in New Jersey, barely aware that her grandfather Franz Wertheim was co-owner of a German retail legend. In 1951 a German lawyer named Arthur Lindgens, a distant relative by marriage...
...PBHA Financial Administrator Barbara Cone said matters have been further complicated by the fact that the foundations on which their summer programs have traditionally relied for major funding proved less generous this year than they have been in the past...