{"id":3493,"date":"2026-04-24T20:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/rates-end-week-close-enough-to-recent-lows\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:31:32","slug":"rates-end-week-close-enough-to-recent-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/rates-end-week-close-enough-to-recent-lows\/","title":{"rendered":"Rates End Week Close Enough to Recent Lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>With zero change versus Thursday&#8217;s latest levels, the 30yr fixed mortgage rate index maintained a 0.03% range for the entire week (and 0.04% going back to last Tuesday). At 6.32%, today&#8217;s mark is close enough to Friday&#8217;s 6.29% to say rates are hovering at the lowest levels in more than a month.<\/p>\n<p>The sideways drift reflects uncertainty surrounding the next phase in the Iran war. Prospects for negotiations were called into question for most of the week, but improved somewhat on Friday. A successful end to the war would likely bring some additional improvement for rates, but the true test would be the longer-term realities for oil prices and their impact on inflation.<\/p>\n<p>The week ahead brings the next Fed announcement. Markets are pricing in a zero percent chance of a cut or a hike. The Fed&#8217;s rate cutting hands are tied until\/unless inflation moves back down and they won&#8217;t preemptively assume that will happen until post-war oil price dynamics play out for a few months.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With zero change versus Thursday&#8217;s latest levels, the 30yr fixed mortgage rate index maintained a 0.03% range for the entire week (and 0.04% going back to last Tuesday). At 6.32%, today&#8217;s mark is close enough to Friday&#8217;s 6.29% to say rates are hovering at the lowest levels in more than a month. The sideways drift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[731,732,154,258],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-close","tag-lows","tag-rates","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","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=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}