Video: Boost your credit score

Getting the best mortgage and credit card rates comes down to one number: your credit score. Sumi Das from CBS Moneywatch has tips on how you can improve your credit.

Wife's Bad Credit Doesn't Have to Ruin Her Husband's

Once negative accounts are removed from your credit reports, your credit score will be based on the current and positive accounts that you have.

Wilshire Will Reward Those Banking on Its Turnaround

The market is discounting this firm's improving credit quality and attractive business model.

No quick fix to improving a credit score

Lose weight, stop smoking, and find more family time are perennial favorite New Year’s resolutions. But as the ball dropped in Times Square and the calendar flipped to 2012, there were many who weren’t thinking waistlines, better health or bonding with loved ones. Front and center for a better life was cleaning up personal finances [...]

Credit care: Wife's bad credit doesn't have to ruin her husband's

Q: When I was in college in 2005, I let a credit card go into collections. When I left college a year later and joined the military, I found that my student loans went into collections. I contacted these agencies and paid off all the debt I have. My credit score is currently 625 and my husband's is in the mid-700s. Most of the bills are in his name, and the ones I have are not on my report.