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Featured Topics: Credit Score: The Basics , Credit Score: Raising It

• Your Credit Score and Citibank's New Fee

  Citibank customers, responding to the bank's decision to add a $60 annual fee to many credit cards, want to know whether it will hurt their credit scores to cancel. The answer: Yes, but maybe not enough to matter. Here's why by Kathy Kristof

  Blog posts | Feb 19, 2010

• Best Credit Cards for You

  Card companies are getting shadier and stingier, and interest rates on plastic are going higher. So now?s the time to be sure you?re holding the best cards for the way you charge. MoneyWatch surveyed the landscape and picked the top cards in several categories. by Bob Trebilcock

  Articles | Oct 30, 2009

• Decoding Your Credit Score

  About 30% of your credit score is determined by the amount of money you currently owe. MoneyWatch's Jill Schlesinger explains the other 70%.

  Videos | Feb 2, 2010

• FHA Increases Down Payment For Some, Mortgage Insurance Premium For All

  FHA announced big changes to its FHA loan program. Will you still qualify for an FHA loan? by Ilyce Glink

  Blog posts | Jan 20, 2010

• College Kids and Credit Cards: What Every Parent Needs to Know

  The plastic providers have one more chance to lure in college students before next year?s law prevents them. Here?s how to make your kid ?card smart.? by Barbara Bedway

  Articles | Sep 10, 2009

• Credit Cards, Mortgages, and Refinancing: What to Do With Your Money for 2010

  Next year should be a terrific time to refinance or get a mortgage, but a rough one for credit card customers. Follow these rules to deal with your debt in 2010. by Kate Ashford

  Articles | Dec 16, 2009

• How to Refinance Now and Avoid Rejection

  With interest rates absurdly low, you may be eager to refinance. But lenders are finding all kinds of ways to say no. Here are the five most common refi killers, and how to avoid becoming a victim. But when the bank pulled their credit report, Jeff, an executive at a local land...

  Articles | Dec 7, 2009

• Why Should You Have to Pay for Your Credit Score?

  Seriously. Why should you buy your credit score? After all, the score is based on your information. Shouldn't it belong to you? Yet federal law requires you to pay $15 to get it. The fee is a gift to credit scoring companies like Fair Isaac, Choicepoint, TransUnion and Vantage. They don't need...

  Blog posts | Oct 17, 2009

• Credit Quandary - How Much Credit Should Creditors Give You?

  Karen King owes $36,000. According to the Wall Street Journal, The amount of credit card debt King is carrying is more than she has ever earned in a year. "Years ago, I lived for now. It was so stupid," the 28-year-old says. "It's depressing, but I can't live that life anymore." Now, she says,...

  Blog posts | Oct 13, 2009

• Credit Cards: How to Get the Last Great Deals

  Issuers are now approving few new customers and charging steep rates with low credit limits. So say goodbye to those 3.99 percent teaser offers and zero percent balance transfers. “These days, you should not expect to get a $20,000 credit line right off the bat. It will be more...

  Articles | Jul 7, 2009

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