{"id":717,"date":"2025-01-23T22:36:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T22:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-move-moderately-higher\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T22:36:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T22:36:48","slug":"mortgage-rates-move-moderately-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/mortgage-rates-move-moderately-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Move Moderately Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After several consecutive days without any noticeable changes, mortgage rates finally made a move today.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that move was higher. Thankfully, it was neither extreme nor sufficient to challenge last week&#8217;s highs.\u00a0 Nonetheless, it keeps the average lender uncomfortably close to the highest levels in 8 months with the most prevalent top tier conventional 30yr fixed rate being 7.125%.<\/p>\n<p>A common and accurate refrain is that rates will take cues from economic data.\u00a0 This is especially true in the wake of the small handful of the most consequential reports.\u00a0 But none of those reports were on tap for this week, thus leaving the market a choice between aimless drifting and reacting to political headlines.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve seen some of both.<\/p>\n<p>Details on Trump&#8217;s tariff plans continue to be the most relevant data point for bonds\/rates due to potential implications for inflation and economic growth.\u00a0 Predicting the eventual impact is quite difficult because some market participants think tariffs will push inflation up more than they impede economic growth while others are just as sure of the opposite.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several consecutive days without any noticeable changes, mortgage rates finally made a move today.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that move was higher. Thankfully, it was neither extreme nor sufficient to challenge last week&#8217;s highs.\u00a0 Nonetheless, it keeps the average lender uncomfortably close to the highest levels in 8 months with the most prevalent top tier conventional 30yr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[212,429,153,428,154],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-loan","tag-higher","tag-moderately","tag-mortgage","tag-move","tag-rates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}