Mortgage rates climb to highest level since 2002

Published August 17, 2023 5:57pm ET



Mortgage rates are now the highest they have been in more than two decades, thanks to the Federal Reserve‘s efforts to counteract the historic bout of inflation, hurting affordability and threatening the market.

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