The LowCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report Jan. 17, 2013

The LowCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report Jan. 17, 2013

The LowCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report is based on our Complete Credit Card Index which tracks the advertised rates of 1060 credit cards in the United States. We constantly track the cards in order to identify trends in credit cards interest rates. Our index showed the Annual Percentage Rates for credit cards was 14.32%, which was the lower than 14.34% last week.

Here are the averages from the LowCards.com Complete Credit Card Index for the previous ten weeks:

Date: Rate:

Jan. 10 14.34%
Jan. 3  14.35%
Dec.27 14.35%
Dec. 20  14.32%
Dec. 13 14.32%
Dec. 6 14.31%
Nov. 30 14.30%
Nov. 16 14.29%
Nov. 9 14.29%
Nov. 2 14.27%

The average cash advance rate for this week was  unchanged at 21.70%.

The credit cards with the lowest interest rates in the nation this week are:

1. 5.00% Speedway SuperAmerica Credit Card
2. 5.15% First Tennessee Platinum Premier Visa
3. 6.25% Lake Michigan Credit Union Platinum Visa

The LowCards.com credit card rate report is compiled weekly using data from 1060 credit cards which are tracked on the LowCards.com website. The Complete Credit Card index is available at http://www.lowcards.com/the-complete-credit-card-index-ccci.

Please note: Rates may occasionally change due to the number of cards being tracked.

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About John Oldshue

John Oldshue is the creator of LowCards.com. He worked for over 15 years in television and won an Emmy award for his reporting. He covers credit card rate issues for LowCards.com.
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