Your credit score shapes every aspect of your mortgage terms, from your interest rate to your total repayment amount. Lenders ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Ross Kenneth Urken, personal finance editor for TheStreet.com, stopped by to answer all your questions about credit and credit scores. Here is the transcript.

Regardless of what happens to the proposed credit card interest rate cap, a better credit score gets you access to better rates.

Your score is constantly changing because lenders regularly provide new information about you to the credit bureaus. For ...

Having a good credit score can save you hundreds, even thousands of dollars on credit cards, mortgages and other loans.

Some people doggedly pursue a perfect credit score: an 850. But they shouldn't. In this stock image, a bullseye is pictured. Getty Images April 13, 2014— -- There are some people in life for whom ...

- Credit card companies and financial institutions like to see that you’re responsible with a variety of different financial products. So it can be helpful to have a few credit cards and/or an auto ...

This map of the average credit score by state shows how credit scores differ by region Aaron McDade is a breaking news reporter for Investopedia. He is an experienced journalist who has covered ...