Business News Roundup, Aug. 25

In 2023, there were a record-breaking 27,495 build-to-rent homes completed, according to a new report. These 20 housing markets saw the biggest increases. Want more stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the free, daily ResiClub newsletter.

Just as babies and children go through various ages and stages as they grow, so does your nest egg. Here’s what you can expect from your bouncing bundle of assets, starting from the very beginning. Investing has a lot in common with parenting. No one really knows what they’re getting into beforehand—and it’s the day-to-day decisions that make all the difference in the end.

Protecting Americans cannot be accomplished by banning a single app. When President Joe Biden signed a $95 billion foreign aid bill into law on April 24, it started the clock on a nine-month window for TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app. The president can extend the deadline by three months, and TikTok has indicated that it plans to challenge the law in court.

The same goes for ExxonMobil. This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News. It is republished with permission. Sign up for the newsletter here.

Here are 10 of the most (and least) expensive countries for subscribing to Netflix without ads—and what you can expect to find in their libraries. A vacation done right typically involves very few waking hours spent inside a hotel room. What’s the point of getting out of the country, after all, if you’re barely getting out of bed?

A potential conflict looms with avocado growers—who are often sponsored by or pay protection money to drug cartels. As a drought in Mexico drags on, angry subsistence farmers have begun taking direct action on thirsty avocado orchards and berry fields of commercial farms that are drying up streams in the mountains west of Mexico City.