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.

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 ...

Aiming to hit the credit-score ceiling? Going by the FICO® Score system, 850 is the highest credit score possible. It means lenders see you as a super low-risk borrower with a long track record of ...

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- 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 ...

Discover why your U.S. credit score might not influence financial decisions abroad. Learn what you can do to establish good ...

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 ...