Today's Financial Rates
Every rate that touches an American household — mortgages, savings, Treasuries, inflation and fuel — pulled straight from government and Federal Reserve data, updated each morning.
📅 Updated October 1, 2026
What today's numbers mean
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate stands at 7.03%, while the 15-year sits at 6.42%. The Federal Reserve's effective funds rate is 3.88% and the prime rate is 7.0%.
Consumer prices are running 3.35% higher than a year ago. Regular gasoline averages $4.465 per gallon nationwide.
🏠 Mortgage & Home Loans
National averages from the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey, published weekly on Thursday.
30-Year Fixed
7.03%
▲ 0.08 pt
Week of Sep 24, 2026
A year ago: 6.30%
15-Year Fixed
6.42%
▲ 0.16 pt
Week of Sep 24, 2026
A year ago: 5.49%
Bank Prime Rate
7.00%
unchanged
As of Sep 28, 2026
Most HELOCs and credit cards are priced off this rate.
Median Home Price
$410,700
Quarter ending Apr 1, 2026
A year ago: $416,100
🏦 The Fed, Savings & Borrowing
The short-term rates that set what your savings account pays and what your debt costs.
Fed Funds Effective
3.88%
unchanged
Sep 29, 2026
A year ago: 4.09%
SOFR
3.88%
▼ 0.02 pt
Sep 29, 2026
The benchmark that replaced LIBOR on floating-rate loans.
3-Month Treasury
4.20%
Sep 30, 2026
A rough ceiling on what money-market funds can pay.
2-Year Treasury
4.89%
▼ 0.03 pt
Sep 29, 2026
Tracks where markets think short rates are heading.
📈 Treasury Yield Curve
What the US government pays to borrow across every maturity. Mortgage rates track the 10-year closely.
US Treasury constant-maturity yields, Sep 30, 2026. Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury.
10-Year Treasury
5.26%
▲ 0.02 pt
Sep 29, 2026
A year ago: 4.15%
30-Year Treasury
5.59%
▲ 0.03 pt
Sep 29, 2026
10Y − 2Y Spread
0.41 pt
▲ 0.04 pt
Sep 30, 2026
Below zero is an inverted curve — historically a recession warning.
🛒 Cost of Living
Inflation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and pump prices from the Energy Information Administration.
CPI Inflation (YoY)
3.4%
Data through Aug 1, 2026
How much more the same basket of goods costs than a year ago.
Core CPI (YoY)
2.5%
Data through Aug 1, 2026
Strips out food and energy — the number the Fed watches.
Regular Gasoline
$4.465
▼ 0.013
Week of Sep 28, 2026
A year ago: $3.118
Unemployment Rate
4.1%
unchanged
Aug 1, 2026
A year ago: 4.3%
📊 Markets & Commodities
Where retirement accounts and fuel budgets get moved around.
S&P 500
7,670.84
▼ 12.85
Sep 29, 2026
A year ago: 6,661.21
Nasdaq Composite
26,797.54
▼ 22.84
Sep 29, 2026
VIX Volatility
16.04
▼ 0.03
Sep 29, 2026
Under 20 is calm; over 30 signals market stress.
WTI Crude Oil
$96.16
▼ 3.21
Sep 29, 2026
Feeds into gas prices with a two-to-three week lag.
Bitcoin
$83,545
24-hour price
Ethereum
$2,683.77
24-hour price
💱 US Dollar Exchange Rates
European Central Bank reference rates for Sep 30, 2026.
| Currency | 1 USD buys |
|---|
| Canadian Dollar (CAD) | 1.4183 |
| Euro (EUR) | 0.8807 |
| British Pound (GBP) | 0.7527 |
| Japanese Yen (JPY) | 157.0000 |
| Mexican Peso (MXN) | 18.1259 |
Where these numbers come from
Every figure on this page is pulled automatically from a primary public source. Nothing is estimated or modeled by us.
- Mortgage rates — Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey, via the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)
- Fed funds, prime, SOFR, CPI, unemployment, oil, stock indexes — Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)
- Treasury yield curve — U.S. Department of the Treasury daily par yield curve
- Gasoline prices — U.S. Energy Information Administration weekly retail survey, via FRED
- Exchange rates — European Central Bank reference rates
- Cryptocurrency — CoinGecko
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