{"id":574723,"date":"2026-04-09T22:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574723\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:26:10","slug":"mortgage-rates-trickle-just-a-bit-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574723\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Trickle Just a Bit Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many borrowers will see no difference between yesterday and today&#8217;s mortgage rate quotes. The average lender moved just a hair lower.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, the rate market is responding to war-related headlines and their impact on oil prices. Rates don&#8217;t always care what oil prices are doing, but at present, there&#8217;s more correlation than normal due to the inflation implications from a protracted conflict. Inflation is the true concern for bonds\/rates when it comes to oil.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s headlines involved various de-escalation anecdotes, mainly centering on Israel and Lebanon. Prior to those headlines, rates were set to match yesterday&#8217;s levels. Afterward, the average lender was 0.02% lower for a top tier 30yr fixed rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many borrowers will see no difference between yesterday and today&#8217;s mortgage rate quotes. The average lender moved just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-574723","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\/574723","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=574723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}