General Electric Co. is thinking more seriously about selling off large parts of its financial business, which by itself would be the country's fifth-largest bank and which investors want to shrink.

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 ...

11, 1924, in honor of the 748 Fort Wayne Works General Electric Company employees who served in World War. The names of the six employees who �made the extreme sacrifice� and died serving their country are named at the top of the memorial.

GE has been slashing the size of its financial arm since its access to capital evaporated when credit markets froze in the wake of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s 2008 bankruptcy, endangering the entire company.

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 ...

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 ...

"This announcement is consistent with our goal to reduce the overall size of GE Capital and for it to return significant cash to GE," GE CEO Jeff Immelt said in a statement on Monday. The dividend payment includes a special dividend of $4.5 billion ...

GE has been selling assets at the financial unit, including banking and insurance operations, for several years to reduce its reliance on a business that once accounted for half of its earning.

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.

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.