{"id":570604,"date":"2026-04-07T22:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/570604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:35:09","slug":"mortgage-rates-little-changed-but-volatility-could-return-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/570604\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Little-Changed But Volatility Could Return Quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In stark contrast to the entire month of March, April&#8217;s mortgage rate volatility has been downright boring. To put this in context, the average top tier 30yr fixed rate rose a substantial 0.65% by March 27th. In the first five business days of April, they&#8217;ve held inside a range of just 0.04%.<\/p>\n<p>Today did nothing to expand that range although it did leave rates microscopically higher versus yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The Iran war continues to be the dominant source of inspiration for the financial markets, including the bond market that underlies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortgagenewsdaily.com\/mortgage-rates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interest rates<\/a>. Given that tonight brings a deadline for a potentially major escalation in the war, there&#8217;s a risk of volatility heading into tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In stark contrast to the entire month of March, April&#8217;s mortgage rate volatility has been downright boring. To&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-570604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570604","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=570604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}