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Your score just dropped 50 points, and you swear you did nothing wrong. Here are seven likely culprits.

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As prices increase for gas, groceries and other staples, more and more households are borrowing to get by. By Stacy Cowley On paper, Alex Watts’s household looks financially stable. He and his wife ...

Are travel rewards credit cards a scam? While they can turn into money pits, you can actually benefit immensely if you use them correctly. Building financial discipline and establishing a budget can ...

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A drop in your credit score after paying off a credit card is often temporary, but significant dips may be caused by closing the account. Credit utilization should be kept low but not at 0%. To ...

Join MarketWatch for a live talk about teen investing on Wednesday, May 6 at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time. Sign up and submit your questions for the Q&A here. How much house can a buyer afford? People have ...

If your credit score dropped and you can't figure out why, credit utilization might be the culprit. Here's the short version why: credit utilization is the percentage of your available credit limit ...

Image source: Getty Images If your credit score dropped and you can't figure out why, credit utilization might be the culprit. Here's the short version why: credit utilization is the percentage of ...