Tuesday Tips

Coming off the long Memorial Day weekend, here are links to some of the more interesting business stories making news:

• A Wall Street executive is getting the government's most important economic job: Secretary of the Treasury. (NY Times.)
• Here's an interesting look at the vagaries of the stock market. Apparently earnings analysis may not be the truly determining factor in the price of equities. (NY Times.)
• As if drivers didn't have enough to worry about with rising gas prices. Now it's getting more expensive to visit Canada. (St. Petersburg Times of Florida.)
• A tale of globalization. It turns out that tax breaks aren't a U.S.-only phenomenon. (The Seattle Times.)
• One of the two senators whose names are on the landmark corporate reform bill from a couple of years ago is retiring. Paul Sarbanes talks about his legacy in this article. (The Sun of Baltimore.)
• An update on that overhyped invention from a few years ago -- the one that was supposed to change the world and make us all forget our cars. The Segway may be going public. (The Oregonian of Portland.)