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Mortgage rates hit the highest level since 2009.

Mortgage rates hit highest level since 2009

By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage rates rose this week, continuing an upward trend that has pushed rates more than two percentage points higher this year. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.27% in the week ending May 5, up from 5.10% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. It is the highest since 2009 and

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Mortgage rates hit the highest level since 2009.

Mortgage rates hit highest level since 2009

By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage rates rose this week, continuing an upward trend that has pushed rates more than two percentage points higher this year. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.27% in the week ending May 5, up from 5.10% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. It is the highest since 2009 and

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America's job growth is starting to slow.

America’s job growth is starting to slow

By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business The days of millions of job gains per month are behind us and the US labor market recovery has moved into a new phase, complete with new challenges: It’s not that companies don’t want to hire, it’s that there were nearly two available positions for every unemployed person as of

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How to build a runway out of solid ice

Text by Lilit Marcus, CNN; Video by Max Burnell, CNN Just about everything that supports human life on Antarctica must be brought in from elsewhere, usually by aircraft. And in order for that aircraft to have a place to land somebody has to construct a runway out of solid ice. That “somebody” is Luke Brauteseth

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