{"id":3661,"date":"2026-05-08T19:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-end-week-slightly-lower\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:09:05","slug":"mortgage-rates-end-week-slightly-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-end-week-slightly-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates End Week Slightly Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It ended up being a decent round trip for rates this week. Monday kicked things off with a jump to the highest level in more than a month, and the third highest since August 2025. But that ended up being the only day where rates went higher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday brough the biggest chunk of the recovery with MND&#8217;s daily rate index dropping 0.10%.\u00a0 Tuesday and Friday (today) each added a 0.02% drop, taking the index to 6.42% after ending last week at 6.44%.<\/p>\n<p>War-related headlines were less of a factor today and volatility was unsurprisingly lighter as a result. This is an adjustment for seasoned rate watchers who are used to monthly jobs report being a distinct source of volatility. It&#8217;s especially notable that the job count came in significantly higher with no ill effect on bonds\/rates.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 6 months, markets have shifted their jobs report focus from the payroll count to the unemployment rate, reversing decades of precedent. Today&#8217;s outcome is more logical in that context as the unemployment rate was right in line with expectations at 4.3%.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It ended up being a decent round trip for rates this week. Monday kicked things off with a jump to the highest level in more than a month, and the third highest since August 2025. But that ended up being the only day where rates went higher.\u00a0 Wednesday brough the biggest chunk of the recovery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,154,256,258],"class_list":["post-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-mortgage","tag-rates","tag-slightly","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661","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=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}