{"id":1449,"date":"2025-08-26T22:05:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-back-in-line-with-long-term-lows\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T22:05:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T22:05:38","slug":"mortgage-rates-back-in-line-with-long-term-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-back-in-line-with-long-term-lows\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Back in Line With Long-Term Lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mortgage rates tend to move at least a little every day although they haven&#8217;t been moving too much in the bigger picture recently. The only truly memorable move int he past few months occurred after the August 1st jobs report. It resulted in a 2-day drop from 6.75% to 6.57%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The next closest contender was last Friday&#8217;s reaction to Fed Chair Powell&#8217;s Jackson Hole speech which took the index from 6.62 to 6.52.\u00a0 So far this week, we&#8217;ve been holding very close to those levels.\u00a0 Yesterday saw a modest bump and today pushed rates back down to Friday&#8217;s levels. The end.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s movements could be classified as incidental, random drift.\u00a0 Such a trend is a logical interlude separating the news and events that actually matter to the big picture rate trend. Barring a major, unexpected development, the next high-consequence event is the jobs report due out next Friday. It would be no surprise to see a fairly drifty trend prevail until then.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortgage rates tend to move at least a little every day although they haven&#8217;t been moving too much in the bigger picture recently. The only truly memorable move int he past few months occurred after the August 1st jobs report. It resulted in a 2-day drop from 6.75% to 6.57%.\u00a0 The next closest contender was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1283,950,732,153,154],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-line","tag-longterm","tag-lows","tag-mortgage","tag-rates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}