Southwest Credit Cards Boost Welcome Offers up to 90,000 Points (Limited Time)

If you’re here looking for lower mortgage interest rates, today is definitely not your day. The average interest rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage jumped to 6.75% APR, according to rates provided to NerdWallet by Zillow. This is 13 basis points higher than Friday and 18 basis points higher than a week ago. (See our…

But, there is an even better way, one where I racked up more than one million points (and I’ve done it more than once) on a big family cruise vacation: airline-branded cruise agencies. These agencies also give you access to a cruise travel advisor, who can help you get better deals or onboard perks like…

Everyone packs too much. At the end of every trip, my husband and I go through everything we packed and keep score of which items were actually worth taking. We dock points for anything that never left the bag. It’s brutal, but it’s turned me into a ruthless packer. It’s also made me realize that…

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Kate Wood writes for NerdWallet. Email: kwood@nerdwallet.com. The article Mortgage Rates Today, Wednesday, October 7: Pretty Stable originally appeared on NerdWallet.

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