{"id":84281,"date":"2026-03-06T07:38:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/?p=84281"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:38:44","slug":"february-2026-jobs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/february-2026-jobs-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Weak Jobs Report Unlikely to Push Mortgage Rates Down As Escalating Iran Conflict Muddies Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The February jobs report is <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.nr0.htm\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">weaker than expected<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The report shows that U.S. employers <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/03\/06\/business\/jobs-report-economy\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cut more jobs<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> than anticipated last month, and unemployment rose\u2013both signs of a shaky economy. While that would typically drive down mortgage rates, the evolving conflict in Iran is having the opposite effect.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Takeaway:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The surprisingly weak jobs report is stirring the pot this morning, but rates are unlikely to fall much, if at all. That\u2019s because the jobs report is difficult to interpret, with tons of methodological nuance. Additionally, the intensifying conflict in Iran is driving the market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>After a hot January jobs report, the pendulum swung the other way in February with the economy losing almost 100k jobs and the unemployment rate increasing from 4.3% to 4.4%. However, there\u2019s a lot going on under the hood and it is not clear the job market is all of the sudden much worse than it was.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In total, 92k jobs were lost in February when economists were expecting to see about 60k jobs created. Only 6k of the jobs losses were in government, so the private sector lost 86k jobs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The huge swing from January when job creation far outpaced expectations is entirely due to healthcare. In January, as has been the case for many months, almost all of the job creation (116k) was in healthcare, but in February, healthcare lost 18.6k jobs. Strike activity only accounted for about 30k of the change.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Changes to the birth death model\u2013how the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates job creation from firms being created and destroyed\u2013accounted for much of the change in job creation. The birth death model is now more accurate but it is also contributing about 65k less in monthly job creation than it used to in prior years. That means the more negative job creation numbers we are getting now are probably closer to the truth, but the job market is also not worsening dramatically. It\u2019s just the prior data was overly rosy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The increase in the unemployment rate brings us back to December\u2019s level after a surprising drop in January. The BLS did update the population estimates that underlie the survey that gives us the unemployment rate this month, but that is unlikely to affect the unemployment rate.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Mortgage rates are unlikely to fall as they usually would in response to data like this because the escalating Iranian conflict is dominating headlines, with oil prices spiking. That is continuing to drive rates modestly higher today and will continue to result in rate volatility.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fed is on pause and while today\u2019s data might nudge them closer to cutting again, they need to see more than one print because of the volatility in the recent jobs data. That means changes to monetary policy expectations are not what\u2019s behind rate moves right now.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead geopolitical issues have been the dominant force. With the fluid and escalating situation in the Middle East, changes to rates will be harder to predict in the near term.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The February jobs report is weaker than expected. 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While that would typically drive down mortgage rates, the evolving conflict in Iran is having the opposite effect.\u00a0 Takeaway: The surprisingly weak jobs report is stirring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13558,"featured_media":84283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[632],"tags":[36],"dashboard":[],"coauthors":[622],"class_list":["post-84281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-our-economists","tag-economics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Weak Jobs Report Unlikely to Push Mortgage Rates Down As Escalating Iran Conflict Muddies Outlook<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The February jobs report is weaker than expected. 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