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The best gas cards combine generous rebates and industry-standard interest rates. In our ongoing series examining the best and worst credit card offers out there, we ask: Does American Express' Blue Cash Preferred card measure up?

Chances are you've been pitched a retail card more than once. Usually it goes something like this: "Will you be saving 10% using your [name of store] card today?" The hope is you'll find the prospect of a discount alluring enough to sign up. But should you?

Black Friday, the Super Bowl of the holiday shopping season, is upon us. Deal pros cut through the barrage of bargain-hunting tips with a pared down -- and doorbuster-free -- list of simple ways to save during the shopping blitz.

In 20 years of credit card use, I'd never paid an annual fee. It was a hard and fast rule, like paying my bills on time and never carrying a balance. But a month ago, I got an offer I couldn't refuse: 6% cash back on groceries, and 3% on gas. The catch: This upgrade would carry a $75 annual fee.

If you're looking for a simple way to save on everyday purchases, consider an option you may have only looked at when shopping for others: gift cards. Many retailers and websites offer them at a discount, which translates into instant savings when you redeem them. And there are other saving tricks too ...

Credit card companies are tripping over themselves to attract big spending, timely payers. The credit industry mavens at CardHub.com report that there credit cards than ever offering higher initial rewards bonuses -- for people with credit scores above 700.

Bing Cashback, Microsoft's popular rewards program that paid shoppers to start their shopping with a Bing.com search, is being discontinued. Shoppers will still be able to take advantage of Bing Cashback savings between 2% to 30% until 9 a.m. PST on July 30, at which time the program will be...

Since Bing hit the search-engine scene, it has been trying to convert users from Google and Yahoo, in part by offering Bing Cashback on many purchases. Bing has garnered 10% of the search market share, but many users are still hesitant to switch from Google or Yahoo. Now, thanks to a new feature...

One of the biggest benefits of being a student, aside from enriching your mind, is getting discounts on almost everything you buy. Seriously, if you are a student and are paying full price on anything you buy you're paying too much. On top of the discounts that many insurers, stores and other...

Would you believe that a cookie, a single cookie, could make your Christmas shopping cost more? That's right, and this cookie, well it doesn't win an award for taste, it isn't ginormous and it doesn't even have gold speckles in it. It's just a small file on your computer that tracks where you...