Freddie Mac finally fixed an online calculator that's supposed to help people choose between renting and buying a home. Until now, the calculator had a fundamental (and revealing) flaw: It assumed ...

If you're trying to decide whether to rent a home or buy one, here's a useful back-of-the-envelope calculation: 1. Take the price of a home you'd be likely to buy. 2. Divide the price by 20.

Naspers Ltd., an early investor in China’s Tencent and still its largest shareholder, is backing rent-to-buy car firm Planet42 in a $100 million (R1.8 billion) debt and equity fund-raising.

Yoss has won several awards, including Cuba’s prestigious David Award in science fiction. Wednesday afternoon, Yoss read from his novel “A Planet for Rent,” which describes a future of alien ...