{"id":3697,"date":"2026-05-13T20:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-officially-at-6-week-highs\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:41:15","slug":"mortgage-rates-officially-at-6-week-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-officially-at-6-week-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Officially at 6 Week Highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mortgage rates rose somewhat sharply yesterday to match the highest level since March 27th. They&#8217;re just a hair higher today, thus officially at 6-week highs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whereas yesterday&#8217;s Consumer Price Index (CPI) didn&#8217;t have an obviously negative impact on rates, today&#8217;s Producer Price Index (PPI) did. Both are big inflation reports. CPI is typically much more likely to cause a reaction in rates, but PPI showed a much bigger surge in inflation this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Even then, the underlying bond market wasn&#8217;t too much worse by the end of the day and the mortgage-specific bond market actually made a full recovery. But that recovery was too gradual and shallow for the average lender to adjust their rates today. That left our rate index 0.01% higher day over day at 6.57% for a top tier 30yr fixed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article-chart\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mortgagenewsdaily.com\/charts\/embed\/mtg-rates-thirty-year-full\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortgage rates rose somewhat sharply yesterday to match the highest level since March 27th. They&#8217;re just a hair higher today, thus officially at 6-week highs.\u00a0 Whereas yesterday&#8217;s Consumer Price Index (CPI) didn&#8217;t have an obviously negative impact on rates, today&#8217;s Producer Price Index (PPI) did. Both are big inflation reports. CPI is typically much more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[369,153,1303,154,258],"class_list":["post-3697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-highs","tag-mortgage","tag-officially","tag-rates","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697","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=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}