{"id":851433,"date":"2026-09-17T22:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T22:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/851433\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T22:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T22:42:09","slug":"mortgage-rates-back-near-lows-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/851433\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Rates Back Near Lows of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We love it when a plan comes together. Heading into yesterday&#8217;s Fed announcement, the hope was that a rate hike would reassure investors in longer-term bonds (like those that underlie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortgagenewsdaily.com\/mortgage-rates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mortgage rates<\/a>). We also didn&#8217;t expect that benefit to necessarily play out on the day of the hike itself (it didn&#8217;t).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Fed day threw rates a bit of a curveball&#8211;not because the Fed hiked, but rather, due to the implications for additional hikes in Fed Chair Warsh&#8217;s press conference. Thankfully, as of today, Warsh&#8217;s unexpected hawkishness proved to be a temporary inconvenience for the market and rates are now back to the lowest levels of the past 4 days (and very close to the lowest levels of the week seen on Monday).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no guarantee about where we&#8217;ll go from here, but common themes remain important. These include big ticket economic data and oil price volatility relating to Iran war developments.<\/p>\n<p>After hitting 7.24% yesterday, the average top-tier 30yr fixed rate is back down to 7.19%.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We love it when a plan comes together. Heading into yesterday&#8217;s Fed announcement, the hope was that a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-851433","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\/851433","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=851433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}