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Can Freezing a Credit Card Hurt Your Score?
Credit card companies try their hardest to offer the latest and greatest in rewards, cash back, and other incentives to get you to sign up. When you sign up for a new card, chances are it'll replace a credit card you're currently using. What are you supposed to do with this now-obsolete card? You could cancel it, but that can have a negative impact on your credit score, or you could just shelve ...
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Protect credit scores when canceling a credit card
You'll ding your credit score by canceling a card, especially your oldest, but you can minimize it by boosting the limits on other cards
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6 Items That Can Kill Your Credit Score
Key credit report indicators 1 of 7You've pulled one of your credit reports . Now what?As you've probably heard by now, you're entitled to free copies of your credit reports. Federal law gives you the ...
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What's a Good First Credit Card to Build My Credit Score?
Getting your first credit card is a critical first step into adulthood. With a line of credit comes a new level of maturity, and the decision about what card to start out with should not be made lightly. ...
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Consumers still confused about credit scores
Is someone's age going to stop them from getting a top-notch credit score?
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Survey: Consumers are getting smarter about credit scores
Baffled by your credit scores? You're not alone. The majority of consumers still get confused by what actually goes into a credit score, according to a recent survey. However, the number of people who ...
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Real-time answers to credit questions
This week, we hosted a live chat on our Facebook page on the topic of credit scores. Liz Weston, author of "Your Credit Score: How to Improve the 3-Digit Number that Shapes Your Financial Future" and AskLizWeston.com, was on hand to take questions from our fans.
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Testing Your Credit Score Knowledge
The Consumer Federation of America, CFA, has created a fascinating, fantastic quiz about credit scores –what they are, what factors into them, what lowers them and so on. It's worth taking, because as I have often preached here, credit costs money –big money—and there are two ways to cut that cost: use less credit and get credit for less. The way you get credit for less is by maintaining a high ...
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Six Items That Can Kill Your Credit Score
Negative marks in your credit history can lower your credit score. Look for these red flags.
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Action Line: Secret revealed: credit score is not a credit report
Q Just tried the "free" credit report site you published in your column (Action Line, May 20), and was asked for a "refundable" dollar to obtain the report, and that included a charge of $29.95 per month until I called an 800 number to cancel membership.
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