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

In a statement, GE Capital said that the big dividend would constitute 30 percent of its total 2013 earnings, having already paid $447 million back to GE in the first quarter. The company also plans to pay $4.5 billion in special dividends back to its ...

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- General Electric Co. said Monday that it will receive $6.5 billion in dividends from its finance arm this year as the conglomerate works on reducing the size of its GE Capital financial arm. GE Capital Corp. plans to pay $4.5 ...

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.

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General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is already on the path to raise its dividend later in the year. Now we have word from the company that GE Capital will pay the parent company some $6.5 billion in dividends this year, after having reinstated the GE ...

It seems like General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) has been stuck in the investors dog house, ever since Jeff Immelt cut the dividend in the peak of the great recession.

GE said it acted following a pair of in-flight incidents, including one last week, in which one of the two engines on each plane had to be shut down due to gears separating inside the suspect devices.

General Electric Co. (GE) plans to extract $6.5 billion in dividends from its financial unit this year as Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt ramps up shareholder rewards while shrinking the business.

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