Is it better to close a credit card or leave it open with a zero balance?

Is it better to close a credit card or leave it open with a zero balance?

The standard advice is to keep unused accounts with zero balances open. The reason is that closing the accounts reduces your available credit, which makes it appear that your utilization rate, or balance-to-limit ratio, has suddenly increased. Apr 3, 2019

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