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Mark Ting's advice on breaking your mortgage to get a lower rate

Mortgage rates in Canada are down and could fall further following the Bank of Canada's 0.25 per cent cut in the overnight lender rate. On the Coast's financial columnist, Mark Ting offers this advice. Fixed mortgages are much more complicated and the penalties can run into the tens of thousands as they are based on a formula called the interest rate differential (IRD).