<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565109290098277812</id><updated>2009-02-20T19:08:13.800-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Counseling Credit</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://credithgcmylad.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8565109290098277812/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://credithgcmylad.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>vdfg</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10813886147593009047</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565109290098277812.post-2200761181384870131</id><published>2008-04-04T13:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-04T03:23:10.823-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Double Hit: Corporate Dividend Growth Deteriorates as Decreases Surge (PR Newswire)</title><content type='html'>Standard &amp; Poor&amp;apos;s, &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Credit-Repair.html&gt;Credit Repair&lt;/a&gt; world&amp;apos;s leading index provider, announced today that 598 of &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Credit-Fix-Score.html&gt;Credit Fix Score&lt;/a&gt; approximately 7,000 publicly owned companies that report dividend information &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Credit-Less-Loan-Perfect-Personal-Than.html&gt;Credit Less Loan Perfect Personal Than&lt;/a&gt; Standard &amp; Poor&amp;apos;s &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Ways-To-Increase-Your-Credit-Score.html&gt;Ways To Increase Your Credit Score&lt;/a&gt; Record increased their dividend during the first quarter of 2008, representing &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Card-Credit-Debt-Eliminate.html&gt;Card Credit Debt Eliminate&lt;/a&gt; decline of 19.2% from the 740 issues that raised their dividend during the first quarter of 2007.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Credit card companies are about to start sharing their customers' information with other banks in an attempt to rid themselves of customers who do not make them &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Accept-Credit-Cards-Online.html&gt;Accept Credit Cards Online&lt;/a&gt; money.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those likely to suffer the most as a result of this change will be people that the banks refer to as 'high risk', which include; those who withdraw money from their &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Card-Credit-Online-Payment-Solution.html&gt;Card Credit Online Payment Solution&lt;/a&gt; cards and those who have significant changes in their credit limit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This proposal has been discussed with industry bodies &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Bad-Cr-Credit-Credit-Fix-Fix-It-Repair-Yourself.html&gt;Bad Cr Credit Credit Fix Fix It Repair Yourself&lt;/a&gt; a few months now and would mean that banks would be able to recognise those customers who regularly clear their balances in full and those who continuously switch to 0% interest deals, which do not bring in profit for the bank.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This news comes at a very tentative time for &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Apply-Online-Business-Low-Rate-Credit-Card-Services.html&gt;Apply Online Business Low Rate Credit Card Services&lt;/a&gt; as it is not long since the company, Egg, released their news that they were cancelling 160,000 of their customers' credit cards. According to Egg, the cards they were cancelling belonged to 'high risk' customers who &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Better-Building-Credit-Union.html&gt;Better Building Credit Union&lt;/a&gt; done such things as; missed &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/First-Premier-Credit-Cards.html&gt;First Premier Credit Cards&lt;/a&gt; payments or borrowed money that they could not afford to pay back.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This contentious decision made by Egg was followed by many customers complaining that their credit cards &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Bad-Bad-Bankruptcy-Credit-Credit-Fix-It-Repair.html&gt;Bad Bad Bankruptcy Credit Credit Fix It Repair&lt;/a&gt; been &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Credit-Repair.html&gt;Credit Repair&lt;/a&gt; even though they had not missed a payment or been clearing their balances every month. &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Bad-Credit-Fix-Report.html&gt;Bad Credit Fix Report&lt;/a&gt; news lead to speculation arising as to whether Egg had cancelled the cards simply to rid themselves of their unprofitable customers, and this is exactly what will become a lot easier to do once the credit card companies start sharing information.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Banks have always shared information on customers but only to the extent of when their card was issued, when it was closed, the &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Credit-Cards-Reward.html&gt;Credit Cards Reward&lt;/a&gt; in the account and whether or not there had been any missed or late payments on that credit card. However, come Spring, customers can and no doubt will be checked by other banks to see if they have &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Bad-Credit-Fix-Free.html&gt;Bad Credit Fix Free&lt;/a&gt; advantage of 0% interest deals and they will also be scrutinised to see how quickly and to what extent their balance is paid off.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This new sharing idea is the result of a two year study conducted by Apacs, the UK payments authority, who claims that it will help lenders to assess risk better. However, consumer groups say that it will mean that more customers are denied credit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some credit card companies have already &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Household-Credit-Cards.html&gt;Household Credit Cards&lt;/a&gt; asking customers, who do not use their cards often, to justify why they need them, whilst another company has issued a 35 inactivity fee to those customers who have not used their cards for more than a year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A recent survey, which was conducted before the credit crunch, has found that there has been a 10% increase in the number of rejections for credit cards. The credit-reference firm, who discovered the increase, have said that minor discrepancies, such as paying your telephone bill a bit late, may have been overlooked in the past but may not be any longer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Egg cancelled some customers' &lt;a TARGET="_BLANK" href="http://www.moneysupermarket.com/cards/"&gt;credit cards&lt;/a&gt; after they had missed payments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a TARGET="_BLANK" href="http://www.moneysupermarket.com/cards/"&gt;Credit card&lt;/a&gt; companies sharing information will easily enable banks to rid themselves of unprofitable customers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some &lt;a TARGET="_BLANK" href="http://www.moneysupermarket.com/cards/"&gt;credit card&lt;/a&gt; companies have started asking customers to justify why they need their unused cards.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8565109290098277812-2200761181384870131?l=credithgcmylad.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://credithgcmylad.blogspot.com/feeds/2200761181384870131/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8565109290098277812&amp;postID=2200761181384870131' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8565109290098277812/posts/default/2200761181384870131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8565109290098277812/posts/default/2200761181384870131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://credithgcmylad.blogspot.com/2008/04/double-hit-corporate-dividend-growth.html' title='Double Hit: Corporate Dividend Growth Deteriorates as Decreases Surge (PR Newswire)'/><author><name>vdfg</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10813886147593009047</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08474297571883818378'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565109290098277812.post-3355953874193361478</id><published>2008-04-02T03:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-01T17:21:26.051-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ilitch Charities Invests $50,000 in Innovative Community Programs (PR Newswire)</title><content type='html'>Ilitch Charities for Children Chairman Christopher Ilitch today announced &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Apply-For-A-Capital-One-Reward-Credit-Card-Deal.html&gt;Apply For A Capital One Reward Credit Card Deal&lt;/a&gt; total &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Bureau-Credit.html&gt;Bureau Credit&lt;/a&gt; $50,000 in grants &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Better-Building-Credit-Union.html&gt;Better Building Credit Union&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/How-To-Increase-Your-Credit-Score-Quickly.html&gt;How To Increase Your Credit Score Quickly&lt;/a&gt; Detroit Renaissance Foundation &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Card-Credit-Offer.html&gt;Card Credit Offer&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Capital-Card-Credit-One.html&gt;Capital Card Credit One&lt;/a&gt; Way of Southeastern Michigan for innovative community programs, demonstrating &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Credit-Management-Solution.html&gt;Credit Management Solution&lt;/a&gt; broader &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Bureau-Credit.html&gt;Bureau Credit&lt;/a&gt; for the charitable organization.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most people know that if they pay their &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Buying-Car-Credit-Problem.html&gt;Buying Car Credit Problem&lt;/a&gt; late, their credit scores will suffer. However, most people &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Online-Credit-Cards-Approval.html&gt;Online Credit Cards Approval&lt;/a&gt; know this: According to Credit.com, a single 90-day late payment is as damaging as a bankruptcy &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Increase-Credit-Score.html&gt;Increase Credit Score&lt;/a&gt; a tax lien, a collection, a judgment, or a repossession. It doesn't matter if you're late paying a $50 credit card bill or a $2,000 mortgage payment. All that matters is that you were 90 days behind in paying &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/0-Apr-Credit-Cards.html&gt;0 Apr Credit Cards&lt;/a&gt; due balance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Payment punctuality counts for about 35% of your overall credit score. Paying bills &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/First-Premier-Credit-Cards.html&gt;First Premier Credit Cards&lt;/a&gt; time is generally the single most important contributor to a good credit score. Being late on any bill, for any length of time, is a possible sign of future non-payment of debt and is always viewed negatively by lenders. Late payments stay on your credit report for 7 years from the date of the initial missed payment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A 30 or 60 &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Credit-Line-Increase.html&gt;Credit Line Increase&lt;/a&gt; late payment will damage your credit score only while it is being reported as currently past due. They usually don't cause lasting damage to your credit score after this period passes unless you make 30 or 60 day late payments on a regular basis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you only have a few 30-60 day late payments listed on your credit report, the best thing to &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Buying-Car-Credit-Problem.html&gt;Buying Car Credit Problem&lt;/a&gt; is contact your creditors by phone and ask them to remove it. Tell them a nice little story and ask them nicely to remove it. Follow the conversation with a written request to have the &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Bad-Cr-Credit-Credit-Fix-Fix-It-Repair-Yourself.html&gt;Bad Cr Credit Credit Fix Fix It Repair Yourself&lt;/a&gt; late payments removed from your reports. However, if you consistently make late payments, it will probably take a little more effort.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As mentioned, a &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Credit-No-No-Problem.html&gt;Credit No No Problem&lt;/a&gt; day late payment is extremely damaging. At around 90-120 days, the creditor will usually write off the account and it will stay on your credit report as a charge off for 7 years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are unable to get the creditor to remove the late payment history from your reports, there are a few other &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Auto-Bad-Credit-Loan.html&gt;Auto Bad Credit Loan&lt;/a&gt; to do it. One of the best ways is to dispute them with the credit bureaus.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To learn more about how to &lt;a target=_"new" href="http://aaacreditguide.com/late-payments/"&gt;remove late payments&lt;/a&gt;, visit AAACreditGuide.com - the &lt;a target=_"new" href="http://aaacreditguide.com"&gt;bad credit repair&lt;/a&gt; site.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8565109290098277812-3355953874193361478?l=credithgcmylad.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://credithgcmylad.blogspot.com/feeds/3355953874193361478/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8565109290098277812&amp;postID=3355953874193361478' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8565109290098277812/posts/default/3355953874193361478'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8565109290098277812/posts/default/3355953874193361478'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://credithgcmylad.blogspot.com/2008/04/ilitch-charities-invests-50000-in.html' title='Ilitch Charities Invests $50,000 in Innovative Community Programs (PR Newswire)'/><author><name>vdfg</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10813886147593009047</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='08474297571883818378'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565109290098277812.post-7255493657597942903</id><published>2008-03-31T22:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-31T12:51:18.561-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Yahoo! Finance: Mutual Fund News</title><content type='html'>The latest news &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Aspire-Credit-Cards.html&gt;Aspire Credit Cards&lt;/a&gt; Mutual Funds from Yahoo! Finance&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some credit card debt statistics will help you put your own situation &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Apply-Online-Personal-Low-Interest-Rate-Credit-Card-Deal.html&gt;Apply Online Personal Low Interest Rate Credit Card Deal&lt;/a&gt; context &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Credit-Fix-I.html&gt;Credit Fix I&lt;/a&gt; what's &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Application-Card-Credit.html&gt;Application Card Credit&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Household-Bank-Credit-Cards.html&gt;Household Bank Credit Cards&lt;/a&gt; in greater America.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For instance, did you know that not including mortgages, consumer indebtedness reached $2.46 trillion in &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Card-Credit-Uk.html&gt;Card Credit Uk&lt;/a&gt; That includes $904 billion in &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/0-Credit-Cards.html&gt;0 Credit Cards&lt;/a&gt; (credit card type) debt.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The median owing on charge cards was &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Buying-Car-Credit-Problem.html&gt;Buying Car Credit Problem&lt;/a&gt; That means that half of households &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Card-Credit-Processing.html&gt;Card Credit Processing&lt;/a&gt; balances had more and half less. However, the average household's consumer indebtedness reached 5% of &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Credit-Hispanic-Solution.html&gt;Credit Hispanic Solution&lt;/a&gt; total annual income!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But not everyone is &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Car-Credit-Loan-Problem.html&gt;Car Credit Loan Problem&lt;/a&gt; in bills. Twenty five percent of households &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Card-Credit-Machine.html&gt;Card Credit Machine&lt;/a&gt; no credit cards and another thirty percent pay off their revolving debt entirely &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Student-Credit-Cards.html&gt;Student Credit Cards&lt;/a&gt; month.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But the average &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Credit-Fix-I.html&gt;Credit Fix I&lt;/a&gt; consumer has 13 revolving debt cards including credit, gas, store charge, and student loans.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One statistic that won't &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Better-Building-Credit-Union.html&gt;Better Building Credit Union&lt;/a&gt; you is that people who use 50 percent or more of their allowable credit have lower credit scores than those who don't - 645 vs. 674 overall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something that may surprise you is that less than half of consumers have ever been more than 30 days late on a debt payment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And, people taking on debt have become smarter about it. In the last five years, the number of people who receive points or rewards for using their credit card has increased 23 percent.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Still, one in ten consumers have 10 or more cards in their wallets.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Card-Consolidation-Credit-Loan.html&gt;Card Consolidation Credit Loan&lt;/a&gt; credit card labels are:&lt;br&gt; " Visa (54%)&lt;br&gt; " MasterCard (29%)&lt;br&gt; " American Express (13%)&lt;br&gt; " Discover (4%)&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of all of the banks, Bank of America issues the most credit cards. Then comes &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Fixed-Rate-Credit-Cards.html&gt;Fixed Rate Credit Cards&lt;/a&gt; Chase followed by Citigroup. The average interest rate on a credit card is 13.4 percent.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And, that's your Credit Card Debt Statistics for today.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stacy Fox is an author with an interest in financial and business issues. More information about credit and debt can be found on her &lt;a target="_new" href="http://fastcreditreportrepair.blogspot.com/"&gt;Business &amp; Credit Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8565109290098277812-7255493657597942903?l=credithgcmylad.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://credithgcmylad.blogspot.com/feeds/7255493657597942903/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8565109290098277812&amp;postID=7255493657597942903' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8565109290098277812/posts/default/7255493657597942903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8565109290098277812/posts/default/7255493657597942903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://credithgcmylad.blogspot.com/2008/03/yahoo-finance-mutual-fund-news.html' title='Yahoo! 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The Bush administration is finalizing a plan to rescue thousands of homeowners facing foreclosure by helping them refinance into more affordable loans, the Washington Post reported in its Saturday edition. REUTERS/Kimberly White" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;AP - Rates on &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Credit-Solution-Union.html&gt;Credit Solution Union&lt;/a&gt; mortgages edged down slightly this week, staying below 6 percent, although rates on other types of mortgages rose.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As of September first 2005, all Americans became &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Credit-Holloway-Solution.html&gt;Credit Holloway Solution&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Best-Card-Credit.html&gt;Best Card Credit&lt;/a&gt; request &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Low-Interest-Rate-Credit-Cards.html&gt;Low Interest Rate Credit Cards&lt;/a&gt; obtain &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Apply-For-A-Capital-One-Reward-Credit-Card-Offer.html&gt;Apply For A Capital One Reward Credit Card Offer&lt;/a&gt; free credit report from &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Card-Credit-Free.html&gt;Card Credit Free&lt;/a&gt; credit bureau &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Credit-Equity-Home-Line.html&gt;Credit Equity Home Line&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Apply-Credit-Card-Debt-Elimination.html&gt;Apply Credit Card Debt Elimination&lt;/a&gt; year. Checking &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/0-Balance-Card-Credit-Transfer.html&gt;0 Balance Card Credit Transfer&lt;/a&gt; credit report regularly is vital to ensure accuracy and &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Better-Card-Credit-Deal.html&gt;Better Card Credit Deal&lt;/a&gt; against possible identity theft. The sooner you check your credit report, the more time you &lt;a href=http://creditcards.apply-for-credit.org/Consumer-Counseling-Credit-Service.html&gt;Consumer Counseling Credit Service&lt;/a&gt; have to dispute inaccuracies and improve your credit information. 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