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player ready...Average fixed mortgage rates moved higher this week, rebounding from the lowest rates of the year.
The average interest rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage was 3.98 percent. That compared with 3.92 percent last week and 4.10 percent in the same week a year ago.
On a 15-year-fixed rate mortgage, the average rate was 3.13 percent. That compared with 3.08 percent last week and 3.20 percent in the same week a year ago.
The survey was conducted largely before the Federal Reserve announced this week that it would end quantitative easing stimulus program it launched in 2008 after the economic meltdown.
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