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Credit card companies Visa and MasterCard along with major banks have agreed to pay several billion dollars to settle a lawsuit brought by retailers. The deal is one of the largest anti-trust settlements in history. The retailers claimed that Visa, MasterCard and the banks conspired to fix the fees that stores pay to accept credit and debit cards. NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports.

Visa, MasterCard and some of the largest banks in the country have agreed to pay more than $6 billion to settle a lawsuit that claimed they conspired to fix credit card payment fees. The suit was brought on behalf of seven million merchants. The agreement could have wide-ranging implications for retailers and consumers. Steve Henn talks to Melissa Block.

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Credit card delinquencies rose in the first three months of the year. That's a sign of the growing financial stress that some families are feeling in an era of rising prices and high interest rates.

Before the Great Recession, many Americans piled up too much credit card debt. Now, they seem to be a little wiser about using plastic, says the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

At a town hall meeting in New Mexico Thursday, President Obama touted legislation designed to protect consumers from fluctuating credit card rules. He also urged Congress to act quickly on legislation to end credit card practices deemed abusive.

This is the story of how the invention of the 747 and some bad French phone lines led to the creation of the modern credit card.

Stay on top of your monthly payments and avoid costly fees and interest charges with these smart credit card strategies.

Americans paid an estimated $1 billion in interest on medical debt in just three years, a federal agency finds. This includes use of credit cards often pitched in doctors' and dentists' offices.

Credit card perks are being subsidized by people who have less, argues Chenzi Xu, a finance professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.