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Freddie Mac announced on Thursday, February 3rd that interest rates on a 30-year fixed loan ticked up slightly from 4.80% to 4.81%.  The tradeoff was a slight dip in the 15-year loan which slipped from 4.09% to 4.08%.  Interest rates are up from their record lows in early November 2010, but are down nearly 2% points from as recent as the summer of 2008. 

Employers added 36,000 jobs in January, lowering the nations unemployment rate from 9.4% to 9.0% - its lowest reading in 21 months.