Credit card interest rates continued to show stability across all popular card categories this week as the summer draws to an end, despite recent economic turbulence and prime rate cut speculation.

Potential prime rate changes are noteworthy to those cardholders that revolve balances each month because a majority of credit card issuers base their variable credit card APRs on an index tied to the prime rate. According the central bank, 54% of card issuers utilize the prime rate as their lending benchmark.

Rates for card categories tracked by CreditCards.com are listed below:

  	 
Credit Card Rate Averages 	 
 
Low Interest 	        11.41%
Balance Transfer 	11.41%
Bad Credit 	        12.81%
Cash Back 	        13.13%
Reward 	                13.66%
Business 	        13.95%
Instant Approval 	14.18%
Airline 	        15.08%
Student 	        17.88%

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Source: CreditCards.com