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Shopping around for a mortgage: Urged but not often done

When it comes to mortgages, experience apparently isn't the best teacher. Recent findings by the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which oversees mortgages and credit cards, among other things, show that almost half of U.S. borrowers don't shop for home loans.

FHA to cut mortgage insurance premiums: White House

By Lindsay Dunsmuir WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Housing Administration will reduce annual mortgage insurance premiums by 0.5 percentage point to 0.85 percent from 1.35 percent, the White House said on Wednesday. President Barack Obama will discuss the action in a speech in Phoenix on Thursday. The premium cut is the latest in U.S. government efforts to widen mortgage access against a …