{"id":3337,"date":"2026-04-07T19:29:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-little-changed-but-volatility-could-return-quickly\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:29:31","slug":"mortgage-rates-little-changed-but-volatility-could-return-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-little-changed-but-volatility-could-return-quickly\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Little-Changed But Volatility Could Return Quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In stark contrast to the entire month of March, April&#8217;s mortgage rate volatility has been downright boring. To put this in context, the average top tier 30yr fixed rate rose a substantial 0.65% by March 27th. In the first five business days of April, they&#8217;ve held inside a range of just 0.04%.<\/p>\n<p>Today did nothing to expand that range although it did leave rates microscopically higher versus yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The Iran war continues to be the dominant source of inspiration for the financial markets, including the bond market that underlies interest rates. Given that tonight brings a deadline for a potentially major escalation in the war, there&#8217;s a risk of volatility heading into tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In stark contrast to the entire month of March, April&#8217;s mortgage rate volatility has been downright boring. To put this in context, the average top tier 30yr fixed rate rose a substantial 0.65% by March 27th. In the first five business days of April, they&#8217;ve held inside a range of just 0.04%. Today did nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1950,153,1030,154,2451,566],"class_list":["post-3337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-littlechanged","tag-mortgage","tag-quickly","tag-rates","tag-return","tag-volatility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337","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=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}