{"id":445666,"date":"2026-02-03T01:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445666\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:47:10","slug":"mortgage-rates-only-modestly-higher-despite-bond-market-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/445666\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Only Modestly Higher Despite Bond Market Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weakness in the bond market generally means higher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortgagenewsdaily.com\/mortgage-rates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mortgage rates<\/a>. Today was no exception. A key economic report on the manufacturing sector was much stronger than expected. Bonds lost ground as a result and mortgage lenders were forced to set rates higher than Friday&#8217;s latest levels.<\/p>\n<p>But the caveat is that the average lender was only marginally higher. The level of movement in the bond market suggested a bigger change. In other words, mortgage rates fared a bit better than the market suggested.<\/p>\n<p>When this happens, it&#8217;s most frequently due to timing. If bonds lose ground moderately, but those losses happen\u00a0after mortgage lenders announce the day&#8217;s rates, many lenders will simply wait until the following day to adjust rates accordingly. This could explain some of today&#8217;s resilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weakness in the bond market generally means higher mortgage rates. Today was no exception. A key economic report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-445666","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\/445666","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=445666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}