Ditching card can be hard (The Cincinnati Post)
DEAR BRUCE: Try and top this one. I have tried to cancel a well-known bank card for the past four months. I simply don't need that much credit, and I found that, when I do apply for loans I do need, they hold the credit availability of ,000 against me. I have written the credit-card company on five different occasions, sent the cards back cut up, told them the account is to be closed. I
Banks ease converting equity line to fixed rate (Baltimore Sun)
Yahoo! News Search Results for low interest rate credit cardAndy Hallmark and his wife faced the same financial squeeze now bringing pain to thousands of homeowners around the country: Their floating-rate home equity credit line had risen to uncomfortably high monthly payment levels - the direct result of the Federal Reserve's interest rate increases over the past two years.
Put a Lid on Rising Mortgage Payments (Ridgecrest Daily Independent)
(ARA) - Do you have a balloon mortgage that is coming due or an adjustable rate mortgage payment that has been steadily creeping up as interest rates change?
How to avoid the credit card trap (Zawya)
17 September 2006 I decided to stop using some of my credit cards, " but they were renewed without " my knowledge and I have been slapped with renewal charges and late fees. How should I tackle this problem?
Alarm over cedit card debt (TVNZ)
New Zealand's credit card debt now stands at a whopping .5 billion, but what is in it for the banks and others who lend us money to use our credit cards.