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Mortgage rates poised to jump as Fed cuts funds

February 19th, 2010

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Mortgage rates poised to jump as Fed cuts funds
Carolyn Said, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, February 15, 2010

 
The Federal Reserve is poised to turn off a major money spigot that has helped sustain the ailing real estate sector, as an extraordinary program under which the Fed has pumped $1.25 trillion into the mortgage market is slated to end March 31.
"Housing has been on government life ...