{"id":3321,"date":"2026-04-01T19:28:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-steady-to-slightly-lower\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:28:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:28:44","slug":"mortgage-rates-steady-to-slightly-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-steady-to-slightly-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Steady to Slightly Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mortgage rates were little-changed on Wednesday, despite the release of several economic reports and another deluge of war-related headlines. In the slightly bigger picture, the market is trading with some sense of hope of a finite timeline for the war. Today, that meant a moderate drop in oil prices and bond yields (aka &#8220;rates&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Bonds struggled to maintain the improvement after this morning&#8217;s economic reports which were broadly stronger than expected. In general, stronger econ data suggests higher rates, all else equal. In addition to stronger employment and retail sales reports, a key manufacturing report showed much higher inflation&#8211;also something that pushes rates higher.<\/p>\n<p>All of the above having been said, there really wasn&#8217;t a major reaction to any of this morning&#8217;s scheduled events\/reports. If anything, bonds and rates have been roughly sideways in a narrower-than-average range. The average mortgage lender was lower than yesterday by 0.02% on a top-tier 30yr fixed rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortgage rates were little-changed on Wednesday, despite the release of several economic reports and another deluge of war-related headlines. In the slightly bigger picture, the market is trading with some sense of hope of a finite timeline for the war. Today, that meant a moderate drop in oil prices and bond yields (aka &#8220;rates&#8221;). Bonds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,154,256,769],"class_list":["post-3321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-mortgage","tag-rates","tag-slightly","tag-steady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321","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=3321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}