{"id":653675,"date":"2026-05-20T03:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/653675\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T03:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:49:16","slug":"mortgage-rates-jump-again-now-up-0-75-since-start-of-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/653675\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Jump Again, Now up 0.75% Since Start of The War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was another rough day for the bond market and, thus, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortgagenewsdaily.com\/mortgage-rates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interest rates<\/a>. Investors aggressively sold bonds in the first 2 hours of trading, taking 10yr Treasury yields to the highest level in more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>Mortgage-specific bonds have been doing better versus Treasuries in recent months thanks to increased purchase demand from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. All else equal, higher demand for mortgage bonds = lower rates, relatively. In the current case, it means <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortgagenewsdaily.com\/mortgage-rates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mortgage rates<\/a> haven&#8217;t moved up as much as Treasury yields over the past 6 months.<\/p>\n<p>That said, rates have still definitely moved higher. Today&#8217;s top tier 30yr fixed rate is up to 6.75% for the average lender&#8211;the highest since July 2025, and a whopping 0.75% higher since before the Iran war began. This makes it the fastest rate spike seen since late 2024.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was another rough day for the bond market and, thus, for interest rates. Investors aggressively sold bonds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-653675","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\/653675","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=653675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}