{"id":809437,"date":"2026-08-10T23:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/809437\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T23:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:20:15","slug":"mortgage-rates-rise-modestly-from-3-week-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/809437\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Rise Modestly From 3 Week Lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of last Friday, average top-tier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortgagenewsdaily.com\/mortgage-rates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mortgage rates<\/a> hit their lowest levels since July 20th. If they&#8217;d managed to drop even 0.01% today, it would have been a new 3-week low.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, rates moved modestly higher in response to higher oil prices. Throughout the Iran war, oil and rates have had a broadly strong correlation because oil informs inflation expectations and inflation is a key input for the rate market.<\/p>\n<p>Even after today&#8217;s rise, rates remain much closer to the lower end of the range over the past 3 weeks. Logically, any positive developments in the war or diplomacy should result in lower rates. Beyond that, there&#8217;s separate volatility potential related to inflation reports that come out later this week, but as always, that could be for better or worse depending on the outcome of the reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As of last Friday, average top-tier mortgage rates hit their lowest levels since July 20th. If they&#8217;d managed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-809437","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\/809437","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=809437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}