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      "title": "Mortgage Rates: One Week Below 6 Percent, Then Back Above 7",
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      "title": "Mortgage News Daily's top-tier 30-year rate falls 9 basis points",
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      "date": "2026-09-30",
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      "title": "Mortgage News Daily’s top-tier 30-year fixed rate rises to 7.60%",
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      "date": "2026-09-28",
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      "title": "Mortgage News Daily’s top-tier 30-year index reaches 7.50%",
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      "date": "2026-09-25",
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      "title": "Mortgage News Daily's average lender rate ends at 7.43%",
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      "date": "2026-09-17",
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      "title": "Mortgage News Daily's 30-year index falls to 7.19 percent",
      "summary": "Mortgage News Daily reported that its average top-tier 30-year fixed rate fell to 7.19 percent on September 17. The index had been 7.24 percent the previous day.",
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      "date": "2026-09-10",
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      "title": "The daily 30-year average crosses 7 percent, the first time since May 2025",
      "summary": "Mortgage News Daily's average for the 30-year fixed rate reached 7.07 percent, ten basis points above Wednesday and the first reading above 7 percent since May 2025, while Freddie Mac's weekly survey for the same day still read 6.76 percent. The 10-year Treasury yield rose again as oil prices surged; CNBC put the daily low for the year at 5.99 percent, reached the day before the Iran war began, and calculated that principal and interest on a US$430,000 home with 20 percent down had risen US$244 a month since the end of February.",
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          "quote": "The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage crossed over 7% on Thursday for the first time since May 2025, hitting 7.07%, according to Mortgage News Daily."
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      "date": "2026-08-31",
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      "title": "Daily rates hit a 2026 high of 6.87% after Warsh's first Jackson Hole speech",
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