{"id":1638,"date":"2025-09-23T04:48:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-roughly-unchanged-to-start-new-week\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T04:48:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:48:58","slug":"mortgage-rates-roughly-unchanged-to-start-new-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-roughly-unchanged-to-start-new-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Roughly Unchanged to Start New Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After hitting the lowest levels in nearly a year (and nearly the lowest levels in 3 years) last Tuesday, rates lurched higher following Wednesday&#8217;s Fed announcement.\u00a0 While the Fed cut rates as expected, and while the Fed&#8217;s rate forecasts were well-received, Powell&#8217;s guidance pushed back in the other direction.\u00a0 Economic data on Thursday morning made things worse making for a fairly sharp 2-day spike.<\/p>\n<p>Things calmed down after that. Friday&#8217;s rates were a hair lower and now today&#8217;s rates are right in line with Friday&#8217;s. In other words, the volatile reaction to last week&#8217;s Fed announcement is over and the market is waiting for the next source of inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>The most prevalent top tier 30yr fixed rate is now closest to 6.375% after briefly hitting 6.125% last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll hear from almost every other member of the Fed via various speeches this week. This could create volatility on a smaller scale, but it will be next week&#8217;s jobs report that has the power to either push rates back toward recent lows or reinvigorate last week&#8217;s unfriendly rebound.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After hitting the lowest levels in nearly a year (and nearly the lowest levels in 3 years) last Tuesday, rates lurched higher following Wednesday&#8217;s Fed announcement.\u00a0 While the Fed cut rates as expected, and while the Fed&#8217;s rate forecasts were well-received, Powell&#8217;s guidance pushed back in the other direction.\u00a0 Economic data on Thursday morning made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,154,1546,257,1141,258],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-mortgage","tag-rates","tag-roughly","tag-start","tag-unchanged","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","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=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}