{"id":3915,"date":"2026-06-03T19:47:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-move-back-up-with-oil-prices\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:47:52","slug":"mortgage-rates-move-back-up-with-oil-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-move-back-up-with-oil-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Move Back Up With Oil Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Imagine being stuck at home watching TV for 3 months and only being able to stream one show. That&#8217;s been the case for the bond market (which dictates interest rates) since the beginning of March. The show in question involves watching war-related headlines and reacting in roughly the same manner as oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s episode was more interesting than yesterday&#8217;s. Key details included reports of Iranian missile strikes on various U.S. and allied targets. In general, rates have improved on news that increases the odds of a peace deal. Unsurprisingly, today&#8217;s headlines (technically, yesterday night, but reflected in today&#8217;s rate movement) did the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to headline fatigue and desensitization, the rate market has been responding with less volatility over the past few weeks. As such, today&#8217;s increase was fairly modest in the big picture but nonetheless leaves rates near their highest levels in more than 9 months.<\/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>Imagine being stuck at home watching TV for 3 months and only being able to stream one show. That&#8217;s been the case for the bond market (which dictates interest rates) since the beginning of March. The show in question involves watching war-related headlines and reacting in roughly the same manner as oil prices. Today&#8217;s episode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153,428,2959,260,154],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-mortgage","tag-move","tag-oil","tag-prices","tag-rates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","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=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}