Procrastination could pay off those for mortgage refinancing, investing in stock - 2004-03-28
Lower interest rates and retreating stock prices are providing procrastinators another chance on two financial fronts.

If you gave up on the idea of refinancing your mortgage when interest rates were rising, that turns out not to have been such a bad move. Now that rates have fallen again, you can save even more. Rates on 30-year mortgages now average 5.4 percent, while those on 15-year mortgages average 4.7 percent.
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Met Mortgage investors face IRA headaches - 2004-03-28
Ever since Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities, the Spokane-based financial conglomerate, and sister company Summit Securities opted for bankruptcy protection in early February, the thousands of people throughout the Northwest who bought their securities have been unable to get at their money.

Now, with tax deadlines looming, many of Metropolitan's predominantly elderly investors have a new worry: the Internal Revenue Service.
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