{"id":2883,"date":"2026-02-09T20:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-roughly-flat-to-start-the-week\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:27:06","slug":"mortgage-rates-roughly-flat-to-start-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-roughly-flat-to-start-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Roughly Flat to Start The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The past 2 weeks have seen very little volatility for mortgage rates.\u00a0 After being near 6% for a week in early January, rates rose abruptly to 6.21% (avg top tier 30yr fixed) on January 20th in response to geopolitical drama. They&#8217;ve generally descended since then, but in slow, measured steps.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s result was actually a 0.01% increase in the MND rate index, but that&#8217;s not terrible news considering last week ended at 2 week lows. In the bigger picture, apart from the super low week in early January, recent rates have been in line with the lowest levels in years.<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s most noticeable move came in response to a trio of employment-related reports on Thursday. That suggests the market will be more than willing to react to any interesting developments in this Wednesday&#8217;s big jobs report (a single report that is orders of magnitude more important than last Thursday&#8217;s reports combined).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past 2 weeks have seen very little volatility for mortgage rates.\u00a0 After being near 6% for a week in early January, rates rose abruptly to 6.21% (avg top tier 30yr fixed) on January 20th in response to geopolitical drama. They&#8217;ve generally descended since then, but in slow, measured steps.\u00a0\u00a0 Today&#8217;s result was actually a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1176,153,154,1546,257,258],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-flat","tag-mortgage","tag-rates","tag-roughly","tag-start","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","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=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}