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7 hrs ago | The Motley Fool

General Electric for the Long Haul

Muhammad is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinions of our bloggers and are not formally edited.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense, Blog News, Financial Markets

8 hrs ago | Townhall

Steve Capus' MSNBC Insults USA's Fallen Heroes

Steve Capus, President of NBC News, continues to tolerate MSNBC's unprofessional, insensitive , and now unpatriotic ways.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense, Cable & Satellite, Comcast

12 hrs ago | Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Will GE's Giant Investors Bid Shares Above $20 Again in 2012?

After 5 months of trading in 2012, General Electric Co.'s shares are up 7.93 percent.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense

16 hrs ago | The Globe and Mail

Why boring is best when it comes to leading a business

A few days ago Jeff Immelt sent out a message to all 300,000 General Electric employees offering some tips for their summer reading.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense, Boring

20 hrs ago | The Hartford Courant

Kevin Hunt: West Hartford Doctor Challenges GE On `Sabbath Mode' Oven

A two-year-old gas oven sits, like new, in the kitchen of a residence retired pediatrician and neonatologist Robert Harris of West Hartford uses only on Friday nights and Saturdays for the Jewish Sabbath.

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Related Topix: Pediatrics, Medicine, West Hartford, CT, Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense, Bloomfield, CT

Fri May 25, 2012

The Independent

Revealed: How Adrian Beecroft made a career out of cutting jobs

James Moore investigates the government adviser who thinks companies should be able to fire at will - and discovers how he made a personal fortune at the expense of the people he employed Note: We do not store your email address but your IP address will be logged to prevent abuse of this feature.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense

Seeking Alpha

Microsoft Success Hinges On Ballmer

A couple of weeks ago Forbes had given Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer the title as the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Cisco, Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense, Retail, Sears, Apple

Toronto News.Net

GE invests $300 mn in Brazilian firm

Brazilian mogul Eike Batista's Grupo EBX has announced a "strategic accord" with General Electric Co.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense

Thu May 24, 2012

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

McDonald's CEO on Europe and 4 DJIA Stocks Traders are Watching

Bank of America Corporation will repurchase $330 million worth of home loans from Freddie Mac , following the discovery of flaws in their creation process, says a Bloomberg report.

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Related Topix: Restaurant Management, Mcdonalds, Banking, Bank of America, Financial Services, SoftServe, Freddie Mac, JP Morgan Chase , Aerospace-Defense

AmericanBankingNews.com

Oppenheimer Reaffirms "Outperform" Rating on General Electric

A number of other firms have also recently commented on GE. Analysts at Morgan Stanley raised their EPS on shares of General Electric in a research note to investors on Friday, May 18th.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense, Nomura Holding, Investment Services

The Daily Star

EBL salutes Latifur Rahman

Second from right , M Ghaziul Haque, chairman of Eastern Bank, presents a bouquet at a reception organised by the bank to honour Latifur Rahman, second from left, chairman of Transcom Group, for winning the Oslo Business for Peace Award, at the Westin hotel in Dhaka on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Bangladesh, World News, Asia, Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense

TheStreet.com

General Electric's $4.5B Dividend Slated for Buybacks

's $4.5 billion "special dividend"--to be paid from GE Capital to the parent company--will be used entirely for buybacks, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt told investors at an industry conference Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense

Reuters

GE to put $300 mln into Brazil infrastructure fund

General Electric Co will invest $300 million for an equity stake in a fund run by Brazilian industrial group EBX Group that invests in Brazil infrastructure projects, EBX and the largest U.S. conglomerate said on Thursday.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense

The Irrawaddy Newsmagazine

Govt to Boost Electricity as Protests Continue

Burma's state-run television announced on Wednesday that the government will boost electricity supplies in the country in the wake of protests over power cuts.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Construction, Insurance, Caterpillar, Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense, Burma, Southeast Asia, World News

Wed May 23, 2012

Wall Street Journal

GE Says Industrial-Margin Growth May Miss Forecast

General Electric Co. may not be able to improve the profit margin for its industrial businesses as much as forecast this year, Chief Executive Jeff Immelt said, backing away from a key projection the company had reaffirmed just four weeks ago.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense

The Kansas City Star

H&R Block hires one-time subprime mortgage executive as its chief financial officer

H&R Block Inc. has chosen a former executive in General Electric’s subprime mortgage operation to be the tax preparer’s chief financial officer.Gregory J. Macfarlane had most recently had been the chief financial officer of Ceridian Corp., a human resources firm, where he worked from 2007 to 2011.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Accounting, H and R Block, H&R Block, Aerospace-Defense, Ceridian, Computers

Reuters

UPDATE 2-GE's Immelt still aims for 'smaller' finance arm

General Electric Co plans to continue to shrink its finance arm, pulling back from consumer finance and reducing its real estate holdings, but Chairman and Chief Executive Jeff Immelt said on Wednesday he did not know how long the change would take.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense, Longboat Key, FL

Reuters

MetLife still waiting on bank sale closing

MetLife Inc is still waiting on a number of regulatory approvals to sell its banking operations to General Electric Co and has no more information on timing than it did a month ago, Chief Executive Steve Kandarian said on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: MetLife, Insurance, Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense

Mon May 21, 2012

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

4 Huge Volume Moving Stocks on the Move

General Electric Company A : According to a report released Friday, Morgan Stanley's A research analysts raised their EPS estimates on General Electric's shares.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Aerospace-Defense, Startups, General Health System, Vector Capital, Medicine, GE Aviation Systems, Vital Images, Medical Equipment, Hospital Administration, Pressure BioSciences, Healthcare Industry

Reuters

Role reversal: Smaller industrials bet big on M&A

Burned by the memory of deals gone bad, top U.S. conglomerates including General Electric Co and Honeywell International Inc have backed away from big acquisitions, saying the risks of $10 billion takeovers aren't worth it.

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Related Topix: Honeywell International, Aerospace-Defense, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Industrial Machines, Eaton, Cooper Industries, Electronics, Pentair, Banking, Fifth Third Bancorp

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