Chief Executive Jeff Immelt told a conference Wednesday that the company is examining a range of strategic options that could include an initial public offering of some parts of the business, GE Capital. And as a measure of his commitment, Mr. Immelt ...

Scientists at General Electric Global Research have created a ceramics technology that the company said will improve jet engine fuel efficiency and make engines lighter, and now a GE facility in Delaware has the task of developing manufacturing methods ...

Shares of General Electric (NYSE: GE ) are down 0.9% after the company announced yesterday that it is considering spinning off GE Capital. As part of the company's plan to reduce it size, it would take GE Capital to the capital markets and offer it up ...

Finally, General Electric (NYSE: GE ) was among the Dow's losers today, falling 0.7%. At a conference yesterday, CEO Jeffrey Immelt suggested that GE could spin off part of GE Capital in an effort to reduce the company's exposure to the financial ...

General Electric Co. (NYSE:GE) on Wednesday unveiled new targets for pruning GE Capital that could see the big finance arm reduced by the end of 2014 to less than half its size in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis.

Stocks were boosted by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's Congressional testimony about the economy and monetary policy, but came off highs as he discussed when the Fed might start paring back on its bond buying program.

(Reuters) - General Electric Co said its financial unit GE Capital Corp would pay $6.5 billion in dividends to the parent in 2013 as part of a plan to reduce the unit's size.

General Electric Co. said GE Capital Corp.'s board approved a $6.5 billion dividend payment to the conglomerate.

In an email to The Huffington Post on Sunday, GE spokesman Seth Martin wrote that the company paid $3.2 billion in cash income taxes worldwide, including in the U.S.

NISKAYUNA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) today announced that it has won a prestigious Manufacturing Leadership 100 award in recognition of its work to build a ...