At least, they will be if GE and EADS are successful in their research.
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Even if GE had had nothing to do with the unfolding nuclear calamity in Japan, the ad is in the worst possible taste.
If GE is able to influence tax law, that is only because it enjoys the same rights as any corporation or individual to petition legislators.
To which Prestbo noted that if GE was the same company it was back in 1896 it would have been booted from the index long ago.
Mr. Watson's invention looks to be part of a design competition, thus we're not exactly sure if GE or Kitchen-Aid has contacted him regarding a deal, but hopefully we'll soon see these things replacing those antiquated versions we're all forced to deal with now.
If you bought GE at Schwab in 1995 and still hold it there, you know what your cost was.
Mr. Immelt is a follower, not the leader that GE needs if it is to prosper in the 21st Century.
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Among the fundamental datapoints dividend investors should investigate to decide if they are bullish on GE is its dividend history.
If you own Comcast or GE stock, you might wonder whether it's time to sell, since mergers typically bring uncertainty.
Or GE at around the same time: If that is not certainty in the investment world, what is?? GE: huge and with a very high rating.
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But they are, if I read the agreement between GE Money Bank and BC correctly ( here).
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John Hess, son of the company founder, will hold on to the CEO title, but the non-executive chairmanship will go to John Krenicki, former GE vice chairman, if shareholders approve during the company's annual meeting next week.
If and when that day arrived, GE would have a stake in the successor.
If the SEC were an airline, GE would be one of its frequent fliers.
That could be a problem if the Federal Reserve asserts control over GE's lending operations, he said.
If this thinking is what is leading GE, it is just another example of why American manufacturing is in trouble.
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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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As for GE, Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt risks more than just embarrassment if the deal falls through.
If all goes well, a licensing agreement will see these outside of GE's research labs and into the real world soon.
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Second, GE has been so successful in soliciting congressional subsidies in previous years that if it closes the deal again for 2011, the prospects for ever killing its engine become slim.
But if the carrier offers, say, 25 cents on the dollar, aircraft lessors like GE Capital (which owns 20 United planes) may just repossess and try to redeploy the jets to overseas carriers.
If the Treasury Department gets its way and imposes tougher scrutiny on nonbank financial institutions, GE's finance business might become even more of a capital sink instead of the cash fount it was when money was cheap.
If you were there, you might have caught a glimpse of some of the amazing displays at the GE Works Centre, including a hologram projection display about the energy-efficient relamping of the Tower Bridge, or a two-floor-high lighting installation powered by social-media chatter.
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But if their partnership actually turns up some results (which it likely will, given the money), then GE could be cast a savior of the game of football.
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