those are old. The 10yr Treasury yield was about 3.2% in October. It fell to about 2.7 right now. The mortgage rates are based off of the 10yr.
That said, a lot of that is simply flight to quality we saw as world equity markets fell. Given our yields are substantially higher than that of Europe, the money went into our bonds.
How is a January 4th 2019 article old? Does that mean we are heading into a recession? That is Kacper's argument.