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 ...

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 ...

6 big credit score misconceptions

Credit scores were never meant for consumers.

7 Weird Ways to Hurt Your Credit Score

The FICO credit score equation might be a black box, but there have been thousands of articles written about what you should and shouldn't do when it comes to your credit score. Most of them are pretty ...

Susan Tompor: Consumers unsure about credit score

Is someone's age going to stop them from getting a top-notch credit score? Will whether you're married, divorced or single be figured into the calculation of a credit score? Does race influence the score?