When Depot asked customers who made their water heaters, GE received the third-largest number of votes--and GE doesn't even make water heaters.
Rising interest rates don't bode well for commercial lending, but the GE suit insists it isn't a worry.
However, the reactor that is selling the best, at least in the U.S., isn't a GE design.
Asked about India's stringent nuclear liability laws, Mr. Immelt said GE "won't take any enterprise risk" because of the laws.
General Electric ( GE - news - people ) isn't solely a finance company, but it has certainly seemed that way in recent quarters as GE Capital pulled down results.
He didn't provide any details of GE's revenue in India, or what he expects to drive the 15%-20% revenue rise.
Thus far GE's real estate lenders haven't had much to do with the folks financing copy machines.
Still, it didn't change the rising defaults in GE's finance business, its dangerous reliance on commercial paper or the lackluster performance of its industrial operations.
In the 1990s USEC worked on the method GE is now perfecting but decided it wouldn't be ready soon enough to replace its gaseous diffusion plant.
With GE shares 28% lower now, Immelt can't go back to the equity market for more money.
Shouldn't a proper accounting include the electricity burned in the GE windmill factory and the gasoline bought by the windmill lobbyist?
Johnston's success at GE (nyse: GE - news - people ), which didn't quite win him appointment as successor to Jack Welch, did earn him the top job at Boise, Idaho-headquartered Albertsons two years ago.
Bulriss doesn't pretend he can transform Great Lakes into a mini-GE.
That isn't quite true: At General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), Welch went to elaborate lengths over six years to groom a successor from a handful of clear finalists.
Additionally, the GE notebooks have been refreshed with backlit keyboards, but you still won't get the full rainbow effect as on the GTs.
Investors are wary of laying out long-term loans of 10 to 20 years on Clipper projects because they worry it doesn't have the financial strength to back warranties the way a behemoth like GE does.
GE's Eisele says the appliance business is off the market and she isn't aware of plans to sell the others.
"If you do have someone who's a high cleaner in your household, don't throw the use-and-care guide away, " says Scott Welham, GE's general manager of advanced development.
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But in this instance, GE inherited this patent from Enron, and it's created a wall so that they won't let people come in and build turbines in the United States.
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