Consumer Credit

After years of juggling debts, I developed financial tools that helped me manage multiple credit cards, avoid missing payments and late fees, and set me on the road to paying off higher interest cards first. Contributor: Anni Sofferet Published: Mar 17, 2011  

A financial literacy study published in April showed very few students know the interest rate on their credit cards, about the late payment charge or the penalty for being over their credit balance, all of which contribute to acquiring debt.  

Consumers' card balances surged in March, breaking a two-month streak of declines and helping boost overall consumer credit card balances by 10.2 percent -- the single biggest increase in more than a decade...  

Consumers went back to using their credit cards in March to keep spending while student and new-car loans shot up as the value of outstanding consumer credit jumped at the fastest rate since late 2001, ...  

Credit card comparison website CardHub.com has released its list of the Best Travel Credit Cards of 2012 , selected from more than 1,000 credit card offers.  

Amid an economy full of imbalances, it's hard to read too much into the consumer credit report that shows Americans are borrowing more.  

A new Consumer Reports survey takes a hard look at ways to get big rewards on store-issued credit and avoid the traps  

Canadians put the brakes on spending - consumer credit growing at slowest pace since the early 1990's: CIBC