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Fed ends mortgage securities program

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve’s single largest intervention to prop up the American economy, its $1.25 trillion program to buy mortgage-backed securities, came to a long-anticipated end on Wednesday.

The program has been credited with holding mortgage interest rates at near-record lows and....

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