{"id":618086,"date":"2026-05-01T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618086\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:19:08","slug":"mortgage-rates-end-week-on-a-calm-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618086\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates End Week on a Calm Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Low volatility was the most obvious theme for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortgagenewsdaily.com\/mortgage-rates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mortgage rates<\/a> last week. From April 14th through last Friday, the range for a top-tier 30yr fixed rate remained in an ultra-narrow range of 6.29-6.33%. That trend persisted on Monday of this week, but things changed abruptly after that.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday and Wednesday saw moderately big increases that took the average all the way up to 6.50%.\u00a0 The past two days have been much calmer by comparison, even if rates remain elevated versus last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s resilience is most easily attributed to a slew of headlines suggesting that peace negotiations are at least being attempted by The U.S. and Iran. Additional progress toward a resolution (or lack thereof) is the most likely source of volatility for rates next week, but markets have also shown some willingness to react to big-ticket economic data (such as next Friday&#8217;s jobs report).<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Low volatility was the most obvious theme for mortgage rates last week. From April 14th through last Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-618086","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\/618086","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=618086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}