Category: FICO credit score

Having your credit card stolen or misused, along with identity theft, are huge problems today, costing credit card companies $50 billion dollars annually, not to …

The credit score formula lenders use to determine your “credit worthiness” may soon change. The higher your credit score, the more likely you are to …

What information is in your credit reports at the three major credit reporting bureaus is too important to just ignore and hope for the best. …

Source: Collegiate Times

Interest rates are something often looked forward to in the market. Will the Fed raise, lower or pause rates? Currently, the federal funds rate is at an astonishing low between 0 percent and 0.25 percent. What …

Source: Insurance Journal

Barry County Circuit Judge James Fisher issued an injunction on Friday, April 10, preventing Michigan insurance regulators from challenging insurance companies’ …

By Dean Calbreath
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Excerpted

As politicians struggle to patch up the nation’s ailing financial system, credit – the grease that keeps the global economic machine …

By ROSEMARY CALIGIURI
Staff Writer
Part 2 of 2

The newspaper asked five financial advisers to answer some of the most frequently asked questions about what’s happening in the markets. The advisers include: Jeff Broadhurst with Broadhurst Financial in Lansdale, Rosemary Caligiuri with …

By Ellen James Martin
Smart Moves
Article Launched: 09/21/2008 12:00:00 AM PDT

By now, many economists had projected that the “credit crunch” would have eased. But prospective home …

Despite homeowner relief and low interest rates, many homeowners are still struggling to get mortgages today. I ran into this issue myself–11 lenders later, I …

Here are the do’s and don’ts of maintaining a favorable credit score, based on information at myfico.com, Fair Isaacs Corp.’s consumer-based Web site:

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Make payments on …