WSJ Heard on the Street

With home values recovering, now comes the hard part: sustaining prices in a period of rising rates.

Is Donald Trump showing his inner FDR? Perhaps in a possible “poacher turned gamekeeper” appointment. Bill Walton, one-time boss of scandal-plagued Allied Capital Corp and board member of Riggs Bank, has been proposed by as the next boss of the Internal Revenue Service.

Record numbers of shoppers are trading in cars while still underwater on their loans.

One argument for the Federal Reserve to stay cautious on rates: Workers are only starting to gain back the ground they lost.

AWS makes biggest price cuts in more than two years from a position of strength.

DirecTV Now, which AT&T unveiled Monday, won’t threaten cable as much as initially feared.

Samsung is moving at a snail’s pace in improving shareholders’ returns. It’s worth it to keep prodding.

With inflation reviving in China, authorities may have no choice but to stand aside in the face of rising bond yields

Protests and high security at Trump Tower, next door to Tiffany’s flagship store, add to macro pressures facing the luxury retailer.

The yawning gap between Under Armour’s voting and nonvoting shares offers an opportunity for investors.

A deal for Actelion Pharmaceuticals would help Johnson & Johnson generate growth.

Shocked both by June’s Brexit vote and November’s victory for Donald Trump, investors appear to have realized that paying lip service to political risk isn’t good enough.

Aberdeen Asset Management shows how a tough year isn’t getting easier for the sector.

If Chinese companies don’t take advantage of rising prices to rapidly pay down debt, more problems will be just around the corner.

The demise of two hugely popular ETNs shows the peculiarities and risks of such investments.