Credit agencies

Credit agencies Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s recently put out reports laying out this scenario: federal disaster spending drying up while damages from increasing disasters continue to rise. If cities, counties or states are left more on their own to fund rebuilding after natural disasters like hurricanes, they could have a lot of trouble managing […]

SEC gives S&P a suspension, opening a window for its bond-rating competitors.

We know that credit goes way beyond the plastic in our wallets -- from how much debt we carry to paying it off on time. Now, some credit agencies are looking into using our social media information in our credit reports.

Eric Schneiderman, the attorney general for the State of New York, says not enough has changed on Wall Street since the period before 2008.

The Federal Trade Commission released a report saying that 42 million consumers have at least one "potentially material error" in their credit reports.

Living debt-free is a good thing, right? Those with little or no credit history are finding out you really can be "too thin."

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is proposing to add the three major credit bureaus and debt colletion companies to the list of businesses the federal agency can now oversee.