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Tuesday, February 02, 2010 8:15 PM

ALDERMAN: Credit score damage control

By JASON ALDERMAN, Practical Money Skills

Although not as unique as fingerprints or snowflakes, credit scores are highly individualized — and often mysterious. Many factors determine your score, which can change overnight depending on everything from last month’s credit card balances, to opening a new account, to applying for a car loan.

To help demystify — and quantify — how credit scores are determined, FICO recently shared information on the impact certain negative actions can have. For those not as obsessive about credit scores as I am, FICO is the company whose proprietary software is used by major credit bureaus to calculate the credit scores they sell to potential lenders as a tool for determining your creditworthiness.

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