{"id":392513,"date":"2026-01-07T05:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/392513\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T05:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:57:08","slug":"mortgage-rates-barely-budge-but-volatility-risk-is-increasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/392513\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Barely Budge, But Volatility Risk is Increasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortgagenewsdaily.com\/mortgage-rates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mortgage rates<\/a> have been effectively unchanged for 5 straight days now. During that time, the MND 30yr fixed rate index hasn&#8217;t moved by more than 0.01%. The average borrower would see almost exactly the same terms on any of these days.<\/p>\n<p>The absence of volatility isn&#8217;t much of a surprise given the time of year and the lack of important economic data. But that changes tomorrow with the release of two labor market reports and ISM&#8217;s service sector report.<\/p>\n<p>Individually, none of these are as heavy hitting as Friday&#8217;s forthcoming jobs report, but if they all sing a similar tune, it could definitely get rates moving (for better or worse).\u00a0 Specifically, if the data is stronger, it would likely push rates higher and vice versa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mortgage rates have been effectively unchanged for 5 straight days now. During that time, the MND 30yr fixed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-392513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}