Ge's shares lost more than half their value last year, largely because of the poor performance of its financial services arm, ge Capital.

通用的股票相比去年的价值已经下降一半还多，主要原因是通用金融服务部门美国通用金融的表现不如人意。

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A distressed financial company might be valued at 70% of that, but GE Capital isn't in such bad shape and perhaps deserves to be valued at book.

陷入困境的金融公司的估值可能是账面价值的70%，但通用金融的状况并没有这么糟糕，也许其估值应同账面价值一致。

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Merrill announced last week it was selling the lion's share of its consumer finance unit, Merrill Lynch Capital, to GE Capital, the financial unit of General Electric.

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Last year, General Electric paid no federal income taxes due to write downs from previous losses from its financial arm GE Capital during the 2008 credit crisis.

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