{"id":2837,"date":"2026-02-03T22:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-drift-up-to-2-week-highs\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:20:17","slug":"mortgage-rates-drift-up-to-2-week-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-drift-up-to-2-week-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Drift Up to 2-Week Highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The bad news: mortgage rates moved up to their highest levels in 2 weeks today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The good news: the rate range has been very narrow during that time, so there&#8217;s not too much of a difference between 2-week highs (6.20%) and lows (6.15%).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s move wasn&#8217;t a product of anything that happened today. Rather, the culprit was the focal point of our coverage yesterday. Specifically, an economic report on the manufacturing sector was exceptionally strong yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The result was a weaker bond market and, thus, an implication for higher rates. But the report came out after most mortgage lenders had published rates for the day and the average lender didn&#8217;t see quite enough weakness in bonds to justify a mid-day rate change yesterday. Instead, they simply waited until this morning to make the expected changes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news: mortgage rates moved up to their highest levels in 2 weeks today.\u00a0 The good news: the rate range has been very narrow during that time, so there&#8217;s not too much of a difference between 2-week highs (6.20%) and lows (6.15%).\u00a0 Today&#8217;s move wasn&#8217;t a product of anything that happened today. Rather, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2438,2754,369,153,154],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-2week","tag-drift","tag-highs","tag-mortgage","tag-rates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","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=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}