{"id":3349,"date":"2026-04-09T20:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-trickle-just-a-bit-lower\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T20:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:10:23","slug":"mortgage-rates-trickle-just-a-bit-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-trickle-just-a-bit-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Trickle Just a Bit Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Many borrowers will see no difference between yesterday and today&#8217;s mortgage rate quotes. The average lender moved just a hair lower.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, the rate market is responding to war-related headlines and their impact on oil prices. Rates don&#8217;t always care what oil prices are doing, but at present, there&#8217;s more correlation than normal due to the inflation implications from a protracted conflict. Inflation is the true concern for bonds\/rates when it comes to oil.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s headlines involved various de-escalation anecdotes, mainly centering on Israel and Lebanon. Prior to those headlines, rates were set to match yesterday&#8217;s levels. Afterward, the average lender was 0.02% lower for a top tier 30yr fixed rate.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many borrowers will see no difference between yesterday and today&#8217;s mortgage rate quotes. The average lender moved just a hair lower. Once again, the rate market is responding to war-related headlines and their impact on oil prices. Rates don&#8217;t always care what oil prices are doing, but at present, there&#8217;s more correlation than normal due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3144,153,154,1210],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-bit","tag-mortgage","tag-rates","tag-trickle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349","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=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}