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The Arabs Are Coming, the Arabs Are Coming

Zachary Karabell | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green

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General Electric and the government of Abu Dhabi announced an $8 billion joint venture for commercial finance in the Middle East, which will grow to $40 billion in the coming years to support a carbon-neutral city in the desert.

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Jeff Zucker: NBC Will Not Be Spun Off

AP | JEREMY HERRON | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media

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SUN VALLEY, Idaho — General Electric has no plans to sell its NBC Universal media unit even as the conglomerate moves forward with spinning off ...

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GE Profit Falls 6 Percent: Time To Sell More Businesses

AP | STEPHEN SINGER | Posted 07.11.2008 | Business

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HARTFORD, Conn. — General Electric Co. reverted to form with no big surprises in its latest earnings report, and investors shocked by an unexpec...

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GE Needs To Sell More Businesses, Says Analyst

New York Times | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business

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General Electric has already sold off a baker's dozen of units, including the plastics unit where two of its former chief executives once worked. And ...

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 06.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Yucca Mountain, Iraq War, General Electric, Cluster Bombs, Marines, Nasa, Clean Coal, Peak Oil, Greenwashing, Evangelical Christianity, Bush Climate Change, Ptsd, Global Warming, Afghanistan War, Media News

General Electric remains skeptical about the role of C02 in driving climate change, a NASA report confirms political censorship of climate data, and the VA Secretary says concerns about PTSD 'overblown.'

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GE To Slash Water Use 20 Percent

AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 05.28.2008 | Business

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BEIJING — General Electric Co. will cut its global water use by 20 percent over five years, CEO Jeff Immelt said Wednesday. Immelt also spoke o...

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The O'Reilly vs. Olbermann Smackdown

John McQuaid | Posted 05.19.2008 | Media

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Once, Fox thought it had the market cornered on over-the-top populist outrage. No more. Hence the logic to the idea that Olbermann must be destroyed.

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GE confirms plans to exit appliance business

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 05.16.2008 | Business

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. _ General Electric Co. plans to sell or spin off the business that for a century has put appliances in American homes, a decision tha...

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GE Set To Sell Appliance Business

AP | Posted 05.15.2008 | Business

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FAIRFIELD, Conn. — General Electric Co. plans to auction off its Louisville, Ky.-based appliances business, The Wall Street Journal reported Wed...

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Olympic Sponsors Face Activist Protests

AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 04.25.2008 | Business

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BEIJING — An activist group will organize protests against Beijing Olympics sponsors that it says have failed to press China to help end fightin...

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Jack Welch: His Final Transformation Isn't Pretty

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business

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Was Jack helping GE by doing this? Is there any objective, rational reason that such statement be made as the company is trying to fight its way out of a problem that we are ALL suffering from at this point? In a word, NO.

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Consumer Confidence Hits 26-Year Low

Reuters | Posted 04.12.2008 | Business

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Disappointing first-quarter earnings from General Electric Co (GE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and a drop in U.S. consumer confidence to its lowest in...

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"Shocking" GE Results Prove Depth Of Financial Crisis

Financial Times | Francesco Guerrera, Justin Baer | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business

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General Electric underlined the depth of the global financial crisis on Friday, announcing its worst quarter in five years and slashing full-year fore...

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Stocks Fall Sharply Following GE Results

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — Wall Street stumbled Friday after a disappointing first-quarter report from General Electric Co. surprised the market and stoked conc...

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GE's Shocking Tumble: Analysts React

Wall Street Journal | http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2008/04/11/analysts-react-ges-miss/?mod=WSJBlog | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business

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Wall Street analysts, at least in their research, tend to display a measured tone, but General Electric Co.'s surprising earnings miss has brought out...

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Feeble GE Profits Shake Markets

Bloomberg | Raychel Lane | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business

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General Electric Co. reported its first decline in quarterly profit since 2003, missing analyst estimates with a 12 percent drop in earnings as a free...

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General Electric: Killing Chinese Workers For A Cleaner Environment

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business

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A report released a few days ago by Policy Matters Ohio investigated production of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) at a plant in China in which GE has a significant stake. It's a great notion to replace the energy-sucking incandescent light bulbs with CFLs but what is the price?

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Give The News Impartially? FAIR Report Highlights Conflicts of Interest

Janine Jackson | Posted 03.26.2008 | Media

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We should also have a right to expect that the news we get is produced in a climate where journalistic priorities are paramount.

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G.E.'s Immelt: NBC Not For Sale

New York Times | Bill Carter | Posted 03.11.2008 | Business

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Now hear this: NBC Universal is not for sale. No how, no way. Jeffrey R. Immelt, left, the chairman of General Electric, and Jeff Zucker, the preside...

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NBC - Give Tucker Carlson Russert's Meet The Press Chair

Peter Smith | Posted 03.10.2008 | Media

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Where else on network television can a Democratic politician go to get the Three Stooges treatment, with Mr. Russert in Moe's role? It's a role that Carlson could easily reprise.

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GE Meets Profit Expectations

Reuters | Scott Malone | Posted 01.18.2008 | Business

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General Electric Co (GE.N) posted a 4 percent rise in net profit on Friday, matching Wall Street expectations, with strong demand for heavy equipment ...

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Dogs Of The Dow

24/7 Wall Street | John C. Ogg | Posted 12.26.2007 | Business

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The Dogs of the Dow aren't necessarily the worst performers of the prior year, but they pay the highest the dividend yields. We wanted to review the ...

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The Best Stocks For 2008

Fortune | Jon Birger and Katie Benner | Posted 12.12.2007 | Business

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We'll say this for the U.S. economy: It can take a punch. Consider the blows it has absorbed just this year. The worst real estate crash since the Gr...

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G.E. Recalls 92,000 Microwave Ovens

AP | Posted 12.05.2007 | Business

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General Electric recalled 92,000 combination wall and microwave ovens after at least 35 incidents of fire that damaged property, the company and the C...

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NBC's Vast Green Wasteland or Lipstick on a Pig

Joseph Romm | Posted 11.20.2007 | Media

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NBC's green week comes down to the old false dichotomy: environment versus jobs.

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