{"id":3363,"date":"2026-04-10T18:25:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-remain-surprisingly-calm\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:25:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:25:38","slug":"mortgage-rates-remain-surprisingly-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-remain-surprisingly-calm\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Remain Surprisingly Calm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If we&#8217;re splitting hairs, today&#8217;s average mortgage rates are technically higher than yesterday&#8217;s, but the change is so small that it&#8217;s just as fair to say that rates are flat. This closes out a week with surprisingly low volatility compared to that seen in March.<\/p>\n<p>In part, this can be attributed to longer-term oil prices being less volatile after moving down from their highs in late March. It&#8217;s also a reflection of uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the Iran war.<\/p>\n<p>The war (specifically, the economic\/inflation implications) continue to be primary source of motivation for rates even in the presence of economic data that would normally have an impact. Reason being: we haven&#8217;t yet received big-ticket econ reports that have had a chance to bake in too much of the war&#8217;s impact. Today&#8217;s CPI inflation data was one of the first, but it came in close enough to forecasts to avoid making a strong case for rate volatility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we&#8217;re splitting hairs, today&#8217;s average mortgage rates are technically higher than yesterday&#8217;s, but the change is so small that it&#8217;s just as fair to say that rates are flat. This closes out a week with surprisingly low volatility compared to that seen in March. In part, this can be attributed to longer-term oil prices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[676,153,154,261,3157],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-calm","tag-mortgage","tag-rates","tag-remain","tag-surprisingly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","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=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}