{"id":428489,"date":"2026-03-14T00:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/bad-news-for-housing-the-average-rate-on-30-year-fixed-mortgage-rises-to-6-41\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T00:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:25:10","slug":"bad-news-for-housing-the-average-rate-on-30-year-fixed-mortgage-rises-to-6-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/bad-news-for-housing-the-average-rate-on-30-year-fixed-mortgage-rises-to-6-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad news for housing. The average rate on 30 year fixed mortgage rises to 6.41%."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The average rate of 30 year mortgage has shot up to 6.41%. That is the highest rate since September of last year and comes after the rate dipped below the 6.00% level to 5.98% during the week of February 23.<\/p>\n<p> The spike in rates is following the rise in the 10 year note. The 10 year yield has moved up from 3.926% to the current rate of 4.283% since the start of the Iranian war. <\/p>\n<p> Looking at the weekly chart, the yield has moved back above its 100 week moving average at 4.248% (blue line on the chart below). Last week, the price extended back above its 200 week moving average currently at 4.024% (Green line on the chart below)..<\/p>\n<p>The 10 year yield is up 0.8 basis points in trading today.<\/p>\n<p>US stocks are down on the day but off its session lows.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dow industrial average is trading above and below unchanged<\/li>\n<li>S&amp;P index is trading down -21 points or -0.31%<\/li>\n<li>NASDAQ index is trading down -160 points or -0.72%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Crude oil is trading up $1.22 were 1.27% and $96.95. <\/p>\n<p>Gold is trading down $31 or -0.63% at $5045. For the week, gold prices are down -2.438% despite the global tensions. Slver is down $-3.52 or -4.20%.. For the week, silver is down -4.89%.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average rate of 30 year mortgage has shot up to 6.41%. That is the highest rate since September of last year and comes after the rate dipped below the 6.00% level&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}