{"id":2701,"date":"2026-01-21T20:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-sideways-to-slightly-lower\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T20:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:26:13","slug":"mortgage-rates-sideways-to-slightly-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-sideways-to-slightly-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Sideways to Slightly Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Markets held more sideways overnight as traders awaited further geopolitical developments today surrounding Greenland. Both stocks and bonds lost ground yesterday on the threat of additional tariffs (and counter-tariffs) as well as decreased participation in the US bond market from foreign wealth funds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When bonds lose ground, rates move higher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bond market improvement was tentative earlier in the day but more noticeable in the afternoon when Trump announced &#8220;the framework of a deal&#8221; just after 2:30pm ET.\u00a0 Both stocks and bonds rallied on the news.<\/p>\n<p>Up until that point, mortgage rates were holding right in line with yesterday&#8217;s latest levels, but some lenders are offering mid-day improvements this afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Markets held more sideways overnight as traders awaited further geopolitical developments today surrounding Greenland. Both stocks and bonds lost ground yesterday on the threat of additional tariffs (and counter-tariffs) as well as decreased participation in the US bond market from foreign wealth funds.\u00a0 When bonds lose ground, rates move higher.\u00a0 Bond market improvement was tentative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,154,2641,256],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-mortgage","tag-rates","tag-sideways","tag-slightly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","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=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}