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30-year fixed mortgage rate jumps sharply Thursday to 7.45%

Cnbc · · 280 words · By Diana Olick
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Mortgage rates rose sharply Thursday, as bond yields surged, with the average rate on the 30-year fixed hitting 7.45%, according to Mortgage News Daily.

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What happened

Mortgage rates rose sharply Thursday, as bond yields surged, with the average rate on the 30-year fixed hitting 7.45%, according to Mortgage News Daily.

Why it matters

While other outlets, like Freddie Mac, reported Thursday morning that the rate had just crossed 7%, that report was an average of the last week.

Common ground

Rates rose Thursday morning, when Mortgage News Daily ran its daily survey of brokers and lenders, but as the yield on the 10-year Treasury moved even higher in the afternoon, it re-ran its survey and found rates had moved even higher.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The 30-year fixed sunk as low as 5.99% at the end of February”
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One LinkedIn source mentions a rate of 5.98% (close to 5.99%) and another mentions 6.00% in a context suggesting a low, but there is no broad corroboration of a specific 5.99% low at the end of February across multiple independent news organizations.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — February 29 is known as a leap day (or "leap year day"), which is periodically added as the last day of the month to the Julian and Gregorian calendars, as an intercalary date, to create leap years. I…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The February Revolution (Russian: Февральская революция), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution, and sometimes as the March Revolution, was the first of two re…
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Claim 2: “the average rate on the 30-year fixed hitting 7.45%, according to Mortgage News Daily”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm the 30-year fixed mortgage rate hit 7.45% on Thursday, specifically citing Mortgage News Daily and CNBC.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ball State University (Ball State or BSU) is a public research university in Muncie, Indiana, United States. The university has three off-campus centers in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and Fishers, India…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 9-1-1 is an American procedural drama television series created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Tim Minear for Fox. The series follows the lives of Los Angeles first responders: police officers, par…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The American subprime mortgage crisis was a multinational financial crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2010, contributing to the 2008 financial crisis. It led to a severe economic recession, with m…
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Claim 3: “Freddie Mac, reported Thursday morning that the rate had just crossed 7%”
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Multiple sources confirm Freddie Mac reported rates crossing 7%, with one source specifically mentioning it happened on Thursday and another citing a report that rates moved above 7% for the first time since January 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), commonly known as Freddie Mac, is an American publicly traded, government-sponsored enterprise (GSE), headquartered in McLean, Virginia. The FHLMC w…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Rahm Israel Emanuel (; born November 29, 1959) is an American politician, diplomat, and political commentator. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representa…
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Claim 4: “Since the day before, they were up 19 basis points, from 7.26%”
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While there is evidence of rates rising and falling in basis points, none of the provided evidence specifically confirms a 19 basis point increase from 7.26% on the day prior.
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Claim 5: “began rising at the start of the war with Iran”
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One source (Google News/X post) explicitly links the rate increase to the death of Ali Khamenei/war with Iran, but other news sources discussing the war do not mention mortgage rates, and mortgage sources do not mention the war.
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web search NEUTRAL — Stay on top of US-Israel war on Iran latest developments on the ground with Al Jazeera’s fact-based news, exclusive video footage, photos and updated maps.
https://www.aljazeera.com/tag/israel-iran-conflict/
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web search NEUTRAL — Get the latest War on Iran news, updates, breaking stories, videos, opinion and analysis from Middle East Eye.
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web search NEUTRAL — Iranian oil exports have fallen only modestly since the war began, while its neighbors’ exports have tumbled. With the jump in crude prices, Iran is probably earning more from its oil today than it di…
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Claim 6: “7% was first broken back on September 10th”
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Three separate web search results explicitly state that the 30-year fixed mortgage rate crossed above 7% on September 10, 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Eternal September or the September that never ended was a cultural phenomenon during a period beginning around late 1993 and early 1994, when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — September is the ninth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 30 days. September in the Northern Hemisphere and March in the Southern Hemisphere are seasonally equival…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The September 11 attacks, colloquially known as 9/11, were a coordinated series of suicide attacks perpetrated by the Islamic terrorist organization al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. A total…
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Claim 7: “Rates began moving even higher again at the start of September, especially after the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate”
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Evidence confirms the Fed raised the benchmark rate in September 2026 and that mortgage rates climbed toward 7% around that same time (September 10).
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web search NEUTRAL — The expected rate-hike had already been anticipated by mortgage rates, which climbed closer to 7 percent last week, with the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaging 6.76 percent as of the week ending Se…
https://www.newsweek.com/how-fed-rate-hike-could-hit-million…
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web search NEUTRAL — The benchmark interest rate in the United States was last recorded at 4 percent.The Fed unanimously raised the target range for the federal funds rate by 25bps to 3.75%-4.00% in September 2026 as expe…
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate
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web search NEUTRAL — Federal Reserve Warsh. Independent Membership.Mortgage rates fell into the 3% range in the 2010s and even lower during COVID-19, but such deals are long gone. The average 30-year mortgage rate reached…
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/donald-trump-great-recess…
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Claim 8: “Mortgage rates loosely follow the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury”
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Multiple sources confirm that mortgage rates generally move in lockstep with or correlate to the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Yield Correlation: Mortgage rates generally move in lockstep with the yield on the 10-year Treasury note. As investors have piled into Treasuries, the yields on those bonds have declined.
https://themodernmemo.com/finance/the-6-barrier-broken-mortg…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Spread Between Treasury Yields and Mortgage Rates While the 10-year Treasury yield is a critical factor, mortgage rates are not directly tied to it. Instead, there is typically a spread between th…
https://www.lownme.com/learn-center-article?n=the-influence-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Treasury Yields Resume Their Rise. The yield on the US 10-year Treasury note resumed its rise to 5.52% on Friday after falling as much as 8bps earlier in the session, as the weaker-than-expected jobs …
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-bond-y…
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