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	Hidden Airline Credit Card Charges Exposed You may want to control your instincts this winter and ignore the budget airline advertisements plastered on multiple billboards. Budget airlines for charging extra for services you may not know about. Customers could ....	by Emily Gorton
	Understanding the Meaning of APR APR stands for Annual Percentage Rate. APR attempts to create a single figure of interest allowing the consumer to compare like with like when selecting the best product for their lifestyle. Without APR it would be literally impossible to make this kind of quick ....	by Barton Simmons
	Choosing A Credit Card Shopping around for a credit card can save you money on interest and fees. You’ll want to find one with features that match your needs. This information can help you ....	by UK Credit Card Centre
	Balance transfer credit cards reach new popularity Santander card's recent study has uncovered some surprising figures detailing the changing borrowing habits of UK residents. A total of 3.2 billion pounds will be redistributed on to new credit cards in the first quarter of 2010. Avoiding interest with .....	by Emily Gorton
	With Credit Cards Hitting Hardest, UK Consumers Tax Themselves with Penalty Charges A rise in costs for users of any financial service usually results in public outcry, why is it then that so many of those same consumers allow penalty fees and charges to accrue on their credit cards, when the problem could so easily be avoided? The financial groups Defaqto.....	by Michael Hanna
	Bad UK Credit Cards Do you have a bad credit history due to missed payments on bills and loans? Or maybe a UK county court judgment (CCJ) is against you. Are you planning to get a credit card to put your credit record in order? There are a number of.....	by Richard Romando
	Adverse Credit History No Hurdle In Taking UK Bad Credit Auto Loan Owning a vehicle is every traveler’s dream but very often getting required funds from own sources becomes tougher. Availing loan therefore is only option left. But in case the loan seeker is labeled bad credit, loan providers are hesitant as risk involved in the loan goes higher. These apprehensions are well taken care of in case of UK bad.....	by Peter Taylor
	Ten Reasons Why Credit Cards are so Popular in the UK According to APACS (Association for Payment Clearing Services), in 2004 we Brits charged just about £269bn on our plastic. Cash sales for the same period totaled just about £268bn. For the first time in history, credit card sales topped cash sales. If it wasn't official before, it is now - credit card UK spending.....	by Jon Francis
	Home-owners turn to credit cards to make mortgage repayments A charity has revealed that over the past year up to one million households borrowed money using a credit card to pay mortgage repayments or rent. According to the housing charity Shelter, this figure represents 6 percent of UK homes, which was described.....	by Sam Gooch

Credit Card News

» May 18 roundup
18/05/12 18:00 from My Money News
â€¢Investors Group is chopping its mutual fund fees in an attempt to woo frugal investors. Rates will come down as much as 0.4% starting this July. â€¢ Inflation hit 2% in April, up slightly from March, thanks mainly to gas and grocery price i..

» Transferring money to discount brokerages
18/05/12 14:13 from My Money News
Question Our mutual funds have not increased in value hardly at all over the last 15 years. We have finally decided to transfer the money to our discount brokerage account and manage it ourselves. My question is: Should we transfer all of ..

» The cheap way to cottage country
18/05/12 09:00 from My Money News
Why burden yourself with the expense of buying and maintaining a cottage when you can lounge on the dock of someoneâ€™s nature retreat for next to nothing? We asked Penny Caldwell, editor of Cottage Life, for tips on sweet-talking your frien..

» May 17 roundup
17/05/12 18:00 from My Money News
â€¢Watch 12-year-old Victoria Grant of Cambridge, Ont. as she delivers a scathing critique of Canada's banking system now making the rounds across the Internet. Read the Financial Post's William Watson's take on the video . â€¢ Retirement plan..

» Why I have no faith in market timing
17/05/12 16:54 from My Money News
Earlier this week I described the market timing strategy outlined in Mebane Faberâ€™s book The Ivy Portfolio . I chose not to editorialize too much, preferring instead to simply explain the strategy to readers who may have been unfamiliar wi..

» Ride the summer stocks wave
17/05/12 16:22 from My Money News
With the S&P/TSX Composite Index down about 7.5% this month, you might be tempted to heed the long-time investment advice of â€œsell in May and go away.â€ That would have proven to be wise the last few yearsâ€”the index dropped 12.14% between M..

» Facebook IPO: How Canadians can participate
17/05/12 14:25 from My Money News
For weeks leading up to Facebookâ€™s blockbuster initial public offering (IPO), average Canadian investors have been told they wonâ€™t be able to get in on the action. The lionâ€™s share of the roughly 400 million shares up for grabs will go to ..

» Getting a tax refund?
17/05/12 09:00 from My Money News
Iâ€™m getting a big, fat tax refund this year. Not because I willingly chose to pay more in tax, as some people do, using the tax man as forced-savings. No, itâ€™s because I had a whack of medical and school deductions that I could claim. (My ..