EXISTING-HOME SALES COLLAPSED IN JULY AFTER the end of a government program to stimulate house purchases. Fresh from that success, the government may contrive a scheme to spur mortgage refinancing, which has lagged despite record-low home-loan interest rates. Or so the chatter in the mortgage market has been saying in recent days.
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