Credit card interest rates can quickly take your balance from manageable to overwhelming. Paying off your monthly statement balances in full each month is the best way to avoid cr ...

Using a credit card daily can earn rewards or lead to debt. CFP Chloe Moore shares smart habits to help you build credit and ...

Unpaid medical debt will no longer affect credit scores, according to a new rule from Biden administration regulators who want to mitigate the financial repercussions of those bills. So if pending ...

Dear Liz: My husband was the primary account holder on our credit cards and I was the authorized user. When he recently passed away, I was told I had to close the cards. I have tried to open my own ...

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More than 8 in 10 people have successfully negotiated a lower APR. Here's what to say when you call your bank. My credit score and income are better than ever, so I called my bank to ask for a lower ...

Last month while I was working on a story about the credit-card industry, I realized I didn’t know the APR on my own credit card. As a personal-finance reporter, this felt like a cardinal sin, so I ...

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BART riders are about to get their first chance to use at least part of the long-awaited Clipper 2.0 fare-payment system. The system, which has been under development for more than a decade, will ...

Ben Smithson is a travel loyalty expert based in London. The cards we feature here are from partners who compensate us when you are approved through our site, and this may impact how or where these ...

It happens to the best of us — you charge too much on your credit card, and when the bill comes, you find you can’t make even the minimum payment. Maybe you had a financial emergency or job loss, or ...