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 15, 2026
What today's numbers mean
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate stands at 7.4%, while the 15-year sits at 6.73%. The Federal Reserve's effective funds rate is 3.88% and the prime rate is 7.0%.
Consumer prices are running 3.72% higher than a year ago. Regular gasoline averages $4.331 per gallon nationwide.
🏠 Mortgage & Home Loans
National averages from the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey, published weekly on Thursday.
30-Year Fixed
7.40%
▲ 0.12 pt
Week of Oct 8, 2026
A year ago: 6.30%
15-Year Fixed
6.73%
▲ 0.13 pt
Week of Oct 8, 2026
A year ago: 5.53%
Bank Prime Rate
7.00%
unchanged
As of Oct 13, 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
Oct 13, 2026
A year ago: 4.10%
SOFR
3.89%
▲ 0.02 pt
Oct 13, 2026
The benchmark that replaced LIBOR on floating-rate loans.
3-Month Treasury
4.28%
Oct 14, 2026
A rough ceiling on what money-market funds can pay.
2-Year Treasury
4.79%
▼ 0.01 pt
Oct 13, 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, Oct 14, 2026. Source: U.S. Department of the Treasury.
10-Year Treasury
5.21%
▼ 0.03 pt
Oct 13, 2026
A year ago: 4.03%
30-Year Treasury
5.56%
▼ 0.04 pt
Oct 13, 2026
10Y − 2Y Spread
0.37 pt
▼ 0.05 pt
Oct 14, 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)
3.7%
Data through Sep 1, 2026
How much more the same basket of goods costs than a year ago.
Core CPI (YoY)
2.6%
Data through Sep 1, 2026
Strips out food and energy — the number the Fed watches.
Regular Gasoline
$4.331
▼ 0.023
Week of Oct 12, 2026
A year ago: $3.061
Unemployment Rate
4.2%
▲ 0.1 pt
Sep 1, 2026
A year ago: 4.4%
📊 Markets & Commodities
Where retirement accounts and fuel budgets get moved around.
S&P 500
7,805.45
▼ 1.79
Oct 13, 2026
A year ago: 6,654.72
Nasdaq Composite
27,204.38
▼ 41.52
Oct 13, 2026
VIX Volatility
15.27
▲ 0.06
Oct 13, 2026
Under 20 is calm; over 30 signals market stress.
WTI Crude Oil
$96.24
▲ 0.11
Oct 6, 2026
Feeds into gas prices with a two-to-three week lag.
Bitcoin
$81,597
24-hour price
Ethereum
$2,418.89
24-hour price
💱 US Dollar Exchange Rates
European Central Bank reference rates for Oct 14, 2026.
| Currency | 1 USD buys |
|---|
| Canadian Dollar (CAD) | 1.4219 |
| Euro (EUR) | 0.8933 |
| British Pound (GBP) | 0.7538 |
| Japanese Yen (JPY) | 158.4500 |
| Mexican Peso (MXN) | 18.3653 |
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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