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(NerdWallet) – Credit card debt can be difficult to manage even in the best of times, but increasingly high interest rates are adding to that challenge. The Federal Reserve has announced a 0.75% ...

On Wednesday, the United States’ Federal Reserve announced that it was cutting its benchmark interest rate by 0.5%, an unusually large reduction. The reason for this substantial cut can be chalked up ...

Interest rates have been trending downward, with the Federal Reserve implementing its first cut of 2024 in September. Analysts predict more cuts could follow in the final months of this year and into ...

NOW THIS IS THE SECOND RATE CUT FOR THE FED THIS YEAR, AS IT SEEKS TO SHORE UP ECONOMIC GROWTH AND HIRING, EVEN AS INFLATION HAS ELEVATED. 12 NEWS IS MALLORY ANDERSON AND CONSUMER REPORTS EXPLAINS ...

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Investors have gotten surprisingly used to negative interest rates. Originally an extraordinary crutch to help economies recover from the supposedly once-in-a-generation catastrophe of the Great ...

You’re more likely to find rates below 5% when you have a higher credit score Written By Written by Staff Senior Editor, Buy Side Miranda Marquit is a staff senior personal finance editor for Buy Side ...