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several ways that can negatively affect you. If it is your oldest card and you erase history and also depending on your balances on the remaining cards you keep open. you want to keep the balances on each card and on average at 50% or less--closing an acct takes away from the total amount available so whatever the limit on that card was is now taken from the total amount available the % of what you were using now will go up because there is less available.

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Q: Why does a closing credit card negatively affect your credit report?
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