Mortgage interest rates edged higher this week with the 30-year, fixed-rate averaging 3.94 percent and the 15-year, fixed-rate averaging 3.17 percent, according to the latest Freddie Mac report. Some of the economic factors at play include an additional 215,000 new jobs added to the economy in July, modest wage growth and ongoing “overseas economic turbulence,” said Freddie Mac Chief Economist Sean Becketti. Read the full Freddie Mac news release for more.

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