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The credit reporting company TransUnion holds our intimate financial details. Until recently, its customer service hotline also left an opening for impostors to potentially take over our private ...

A measure of Oracle Corp.’s credit risk climbed on Wednesday after the database company posted a jump in spending on data centers and other equipment, raising fresh doubts about how quickly it can ...

You may be surprised by how often a strong credit score comes in handy during retirement. Reviewing your credit reports is one of the best ways to ensure no one has stolen your identity. Insurance ...

A pristine copy of Fortnite for Xbox One has just sold at auction for an eye-watering $42,500 USD. You might reasonably wonder why a free-to-play game would command such a price, but this is a case of ...

A pristine copy of Fortnite has just been sold for $42,500 — which seems a lot for a free-to-play game. To be fair, this is a boxed version of Fortnite — something that also grants access to the ...

Your credit score is the key to your financial future: It can determine whether you get approved for a credit card, car loan or mortgage, and what interest rate you'll pay. In some cases, your score ...

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The debt includes mortgages, car loans, credit cards and student loans. Americans’ household debt levels – including mortgages, car loans, credit cards and student loans – are now at a new record high ...

A federal rule restricting the debt’s inclusion has been canceled. Now, the consumer bureau is trying to overturn state restrictions. By Ann Carrns A court ruling this summer canceled a Biden-era ...

The Trump administration has issued an interpretive rule that undermines state laws forbidding the inclusion of medical debt on consumers’ credit reports. The guideline published in the Federal ...