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Mortgage rates surge to the highest since June 2025 as new Middle East attacks push oil prices up
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Mortgage rates have risen to their highest level since June 2025. The increase is linked to higher oil prices following recent attacks in the Middle East, which disrupted expectations for falling rates.
WHY IT MATTERS
Higher mortgage rates increase borrowing costs for homebuyers, affecting the housing market and broader economy.
The expectation had been for falling rates this year, but the war with Iran and its resulting rise in oil prices upended that.
This story was originally reported by CNBC Business. As an automated real-time news aggregator, NewsToolBar provides multi-perspective indexing and AI summarization while directing full readership directly to primary publisher sources.
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