{"id":2821,"date":"2026-02-02T21:58:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-only-modestly-higher-despite-bond-market-weakness\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:58:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:58:55","slug":"mortgage-rates-only-modestly-higher-despite-bond-market-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-only-modestly-higher-despite-bond-market-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Only Modestly Higher Despite Bond Market Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Weakness in the bond market generally means higher mortgage rates. Today was no exception. A key economic report on the manufacturing sector was much stronger than expected. Bonds lost ground as a result and mortgage lenders were forced to set rates higher than Friday&#8217;s latest levels.<\/p>\n<p>But the caveat is that the average lender was only marginally higher. The level of movement in the bond market suggested a bigger change. In other words, mortgage rates fared a bit better than the market suggested.<\/p>\n<p>When this happens, it&#8217;s most frequently due to timing. If bonds lose ground moderately, but those losses happen\u00a0<strong>after<\/strong> mortgage lenders announce the day&#8217;s rates, many lenders will simply wait until the following day to adjust rates accordingly. This could explain some of today&#8217;s resilience.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weakness in the bond market generally means higher mortgage rates. Today was no exception. A key economic report on the manufacturing sector was much stronger than expected. Bonds lost ground as a result and mortgage lenders were forced to set rates higher than Friday&#8217;s latest levels. But the caveat is that the average lender was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1567,212,326,2163,153,154,2736],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-bond","tag-higher","tag-market","tag-modestly","tag-mortgage","tag-rates","tag-weakness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","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=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}