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With rising mortgage rates threatening the housing market's recovery and the employment sector showing signs of life, there was this pervasive nervousness on Wall Street pre-FOMC that the Fed would make a bold statement to keep the economy on track. This would have been awful for mortgage rates. More Fed action would have stoked inflation fears and inflation is a mortgage rate killer. But, because the Fed went the boring route, mortgage rates didn't move yesterday and remain in the same range they've been in all week.
