Three minutes later a second satellite, the 3, 743-pound (1, 698-kg) GE-5 television broadcast satellite for New Jersey-based GE American Communications, separated from the Ariane rocket.
Moody's downgraded its AAA credit-rating for GE , which the conglomerate had held since 1967, because of concerns over its credit-card and property businesses.
In quite another class is the disgustingly egomaniacal ranting of former General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) chairman Jack Welch against current GE chairman Jeffrey Immelt for foolishly--yes, let's admit it--predicting a steady 10% growth in earnings.
The business ranges from transporting, housing and feeding 1, 800 NBC workers to crafting a high-end junket for General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) CEO Jeffrey Immelt and his board of directors.
The move was an encouraging sign from the company--and for the economy as a whole--as GE slashed its dividend last year in an effort to raise cash.
Bottom-fishers such as GE Capital have entered the market for high-risk mortgage debt.
Most of the communications companies using GE-3 have "protected contracts, " which call for GE Americom to move their signals to other satellites, the company said.
They raise cash and help to shrink GE's balance sheet--at the expense of GE's reputation for buying smart and making earnings grow.
Below is a long-term dividend history chart for GE, which the report stressed as being of key importance.
Below is a long-term dividend history chart for GE, which can be of good help in judging whether the most recent dividend with approx. 3.4% annualized yield is likely to continue.
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In 1989 Dow's materials-engineering center beat out GE for the chance to build, using plastics, a riding lawn mower for John Deere.
For years NBC (nyse: GE - news - people ) spent billions securing the rights to NBA games, the NFL and Major League Baseball.
But 123 House Democrats joined with 110 Republicans to remove funding for fiscal 2011, meaning that the GE-Rolls engine is in jeopardy if the Senate fails to provide funding and then prevail in a conference between the two chambers to reconcile spending measures.
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He has focused on building the Tokyo-based firm into a one-stop shop for leases, loans, commodity funds, insurance and other services -- not unlike a GE Capital or Citigroup on a small scale.
Since a 3-for-1 split on May 8, 2000, GE shares are down 29%.
Like Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, 30 Rock and a host of other NBC programs, Lights has proved to be a success among critics but has failed to find viewers for the General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people )-owned network.
In November, WinFlex, a wind-power company based in Kiryat Yam, Israel, received one of the most coveted prizes in the GE Ecomagination Challenge for developing a wind-turbine system that uses a light, flexible cloth sheets made out of composite materials as the rotor system for a wind turbine.
Before starting my firm (a life-long dream), I ran marketing for GE Capital, Schroders, Scudder, Citicorp Investment Bank and Columbia Business School.
On June 30, finance accounted for 82.1% of GE's company-wide assets.
In that case, he was snagging an asset that had long been thought to be headed for General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC Universal unit.
Kaplan also thinks some of the biggest companies have been unfairly punished simply because they're big, and he is bullish on the prospects for blue-chips like General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).
Nearly two decades later, the stakes are even higher for companies like General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people ), CBS (nyse: CBS - news - people ), Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) and Disney (nyse: DIS - news - people ).
For GE and competitor Siemens (nyse: SI - news - people ), the effort is healthy as well.
GE-3 is virtually the only carrier for PBS's national network, which distributes programs to local public television outlets via the satellite.
The tiny outfit offered workplace health screenings for companies, including General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ).
Particularly so for GE, still struggling to recover from its near-death experience in the financial crisis when it was suddenly deprived of the commercial paper it needed to fund its daily operations.
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For GE, our investment strategy is always for the long-term including the creation of local jobs and talent development in the country.
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In conclusion, the authors criticize energy-policy wonks for failing to pull data on orders for new GE gas turbines and corporate plans to transfer gas peaking plants to baseload.
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