For a long stretch GE has been near the top of environmentalists' most-hated lists.
One thing is clear: in productivity and profitability Hitachi-MHI has a long way to go to match GE and Siemens.
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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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The bulbs I am buying come from GE and Philips, the two long time leaders in consumer lighting.
Before starting my firm (a life-long dream), I ran marketing for GE Capital, Schroders, Scudder, Citicorp Investment Bank and Columbia Business School.
It is nonsensical to promote expensive GE seeds for short term solutions to long term (never ending?) issues.
GE's industrial customers, who have long thought it a staunch ally against environmental campaigners.
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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Each day-long stop in cities along the tour will include presentations by GE and community leaders, workshops to help stakeholders with EV planning, deployment, and integration strategies, and test drives.
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Disney 's (nyse: DIS - news - people ) ABC has seven new hour-long dramas, and, unlike General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC, which rolled out its comedy-less slate yesterday, four new comedies.
Still, the long-term outlook is good for Genworth, which is run with the usual GE precision.
Redler is long BAC, DELL, FB, DBC, AAPL, TBT, WMT, GE, LNKD call spread.
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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.
The commercial paper market is growing increasingly antsy and GE, not unlike a hedge fund, is stuck with some percentage of long-term assets that it is trying to fund with short-term money.
That's partly due to the development of the capital markets over the past decade in places like India and Latin America, making it easier for a company to make long-term investments in those areas, says Colleen Harkness, a managing director with GE's Energy Financial Services unit.
In addition, there is a long list of companies that provide steady profits but see their share price stagnate, such as GE.
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The real news is that GE is raising the bar for aligning the financial interests of management with those of the long-term shareholders.
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.
"We wanted to keep the long-term goals in perspective for the family, " said Mr. Kraska, a senior financial analyst at GE.
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