Topic: General Electric Company

As an income generating investor, you know the importance of stocks that can consistently pay out dividends from their cash flows from operations and still have lots left over to finance their operations, pay their workers' salaries, pay for general & admin ...

GE could spend up to $30 billion on M&A: exec

BOSTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co could spend up to $30 billion on takeovers over the next two to three years, a top executive said, in a sign the conglomerate is coming out of its recessionary defensive crouch. But John Rice, one ...

Investors embark on treacherous month

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Beaten-up investors go into September, historically a weak month for stocks, facing key reports on jobs, manufacturing and services. If those disappoint, the S&P 500 could breach technical support levels, pushing stocks yet lower. The S&P 500 index ...

Analysis: Equity 'volatility' vs credit market, what to believe?

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An obscure corner of the stock market is giving strong warning signs even as the broader equity and corporate bond markets rally. Equity derivatives indicate that although the stock market is turning in its best monthly performance of ...
Investors bought stocks again on the latest reassuring news about the economy. This time, it was about European banks. European regulators, who issued the results of what are called "stress tests" on the banks, said Friday that only a handful would struggle ...

Wallstreet Weekahead: Stocks on brink of breakout

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street enters next week on the cusp of a breakout in U.S. stocks, but it will need another spate of convincing earnings reports to feed the rally that sprouted at the end of this week. The markets ...
Interest rates edged higher in the Treasury market Friday as the results of Europe's much-anticipated "stress tests" for banks lifted stock prices. Treasury prices were also falling ahead of several auctions next week that will boost supply of two-, five- and seven-year ...

GE lifts dividend 20 percent and will resume buybacks

BOSTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co moved to raise its dividend by 20 percent on Friday, in a sign that the largest U.S. conglomerate has put the worst of the financial crisis behind it. The move came sooner than many investors had ...
General Electric said Friday that it is raising its quarterly dividend by 2 cents because of its improving financial performance, the first increase since it deeply slashed payments to shareholders last year to save cash. The company also said it would start ...

Manufacturers' view rosier as demand returns

BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three major manufacturers raised their profit targets for the rest of the year on Wednesday, saying they were confident that a rebound in demand for industrial goods would hold. Shares of United Technologies Corp , Textron Inc and ...
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