{"id":1782,"date":"2025-10-06T21:47:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T21:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-start-the-week-near-recent-highs\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T21:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T21:47:56","slug":"mortgage-rates-start-the-week-near-recent-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-start-the-week-near-recent-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Start The Week Near Recent Highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mortgage rates began the week right in line with their highest levels of the past 30 days.\u00a0 This sounds a bit more dramatic than it is because the past 2.5 weeks have been very narrow and today&#8217;s rates are merely at the upper edge of that range (i.e. not much different than the recent lows).<\/p>\n<p>There were no meaningful economic reports driving volatility in the underlying bond market (bonds dictate rates), but overseas developments caused broad bond market weakness overnight.\u00a0 Weaker bonds = higher rates, all else equal.<\/p>\n<p>More extreme rate movement remains on hold until the government shutdown ends, thus allowing the publication of the big-ticket economic reports that have the biggest impacts on rates.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortgage rates began the week right in line with their highest levels of the past 30 days.\u00a0 This sounds a bit more dramatic than it is because the past 2.5 weeks have been very narrow and today&#8217;s rates are merely at the upper edge of that range (i.e. not much different than the recent lows). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[369,153,154,257,258],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-highs","tag-mortgage","tag-rates","tag-start","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","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=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}