{"id":2947,"date":"2026-02-18T20:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-tick-microscopically-higher\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:45:07","slug":"mortgage-rates-tick-microscopically-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-tick-microscopically-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Tick Microscopically Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mortgage rates at the average lender moved up by 0.01% today&#8211;the smallest increment measured by the MND daily rate index. This means that most borrowers won&#8217;t see a meaningful different in today&#8217;s rates vs yesterday&#8217;s. That&#8217;s welcome news considering yesterday&#8217;s rates were tied for the second best day in more than 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>In the bigger picture, the absence of improvement over the past 2 days may suggest that recent bull run in rates is pausing for reflection, or at least until and unless certain economic reports justify renewed momentum. On that note, this week&#8217;s nearest examples of such reports will almost all be released on Friday morning, but they&#8217;re notably less potent than the data seen over the past 2 weeks.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortgage rates at the average lender moved up by 0.01% today&#8211;the smallest increment measured by the MND daily rate index. This means that most borrowers won&#8217;t see a meaningful different in today&#8217;s rates vs yesterday&#8217;s. That&#8217;s welcome news considering yesterday&#8217;s rates were tied for the second best day in more than 3 years. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[212,2853,153,154,707],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-higher","tag-microscopically","tag-mortgage","tag-rates","tag-tick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","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=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}