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Mortgage Interest Rate Trend Change
The decision this week by the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee to not raise the federal funds rate for the 18th straight time indicates that the Federal Reserve recognizes the value of the housing economy to the national economy as a whole, the president of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® says.
The decision by the Federal Open Market Committee leaves the banks’ prime lending rate, the benchmark for various consumer and business loans, at 8.25 percent. Before the Fed started raising rates in June 2004, the prime had been at 4 percent.
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