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General Electric plans to extract $6.5 billion in dividends from its financial unit this year as CEO Jeffrey Immelt ramps up shareholder rewards while shrinking the business.

U.S. stocks traded slightly higher, grinding further into all-time high territory after a slow start Monday with Yahoo Inc.'s acquisition of Tumblr and other deal news dominating investor attention.

GE Capital Corp's board has approved a plan to pay $6.5 billion in dividends and a further $4.5 billion in special dividends to parent General Electric Co in 2013.

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General Electric Co. and Boeing Co . are alerting airlines about a possible problem with Boeing's 777 jumbo jet engines, Reuters reports.

It operates diversified businesses such as technology, media and financial services.

Instagram is rapidly becoming more popular with the world's largest brands. The photo-sharing service, which was purchased by Facebook Inc.

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Ray Dalio , a macro-oriented founder of the world's largest hedge fund for two years running, Bridgewater Associates, bought 121 new U.S. stocks in the first quarter, according to GuruFocus' Real Time Picks .

General Electric has released Innova EPVision 2.0 to enable live visualization of the anatomy for a wide range of procedures without additional cost of installing other gadgets.

For those of you who have been living under a rock for the last couple years the United States is experiencing a shale gas boom unlike any the world has ever seen.

General Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt tried to sell off the company's appliance and lighting businesses in 2008, only to have the effort derailed by the financial crisis.

May 13th, 2013 GE Transportation, a unit of the General Electric Company , today announced a $1.6 million contribution to United Way of Erie County, the result of the company's 2012 United Way campaign.

GE's shares closed at $22.90 Friday, returning 10% year-to-date, which trailed the stellar 15% returns for the Dow Jones Industrial Average The shares trade for 12.6 times the consensus 2014 earnings estimate of $1.82, among analysts polled by Thomson Reuters .

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Author Wally Lamb is hooded by Sally Reis, left, interim vice provost for academic administration, as his honorary degree is conferred Sunday by UConn President Susan Herbst, right, during the Neag School of Education commencement ceremony held at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts.

They currently have a $24.00 price target on the stock, up from their previous price target of $22.00. GE has been the subject of a number of other recent research reports.

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Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel , one standout is the iShares S&P 500 Value Index Fund where we have detected an approximate $42.0 million dollar outflow - that's a 0.7% decrease week over week .