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General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) is taking a bold and controversial new step into the field of embryonic stem cell research.  The company has signed an exclusive license and alliance pact with Geron Corporation (NASDAQ: GERN).  The aim here is to develop and commercialize cellular assay ... Read more

Wind energy is supposed to be one of the key puzzle pieces in the quest to get off the dependence of foreign energy sources.  Yet a fairly disturbing story from the Daily Camera in Boulder. Colorado last night highlighted how all the federal grant money and all the alternative energy money in the w ... Read more

Updated throughout the day. Update: RADVision (RVSN) is trading down over 33% on rumors that the Cisco (CSCO) buy-out of Tandberg will cost it nearly 40% of its revenue.  (Morgan Keegan) Update:  Friday’s unemployment numbers will be bogus  (RealClearMarkets) GE (GE) may or may not be tal ... Read more

There is news out in the after-hours session that General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) may be a bit safer from all of the fears that it would have to separate its manufacturing and its financial units.  Bloomberg ran excerpts from a quick interview with U.S. Representative Barney Frank on this topic ... Read more

General Motors says it's going bankrupt, despite all the money we gave it. Surprise. Surprise. General Electric looks its' going that way also. GE reminds me of Iceland. GE knew manufacturing and did good work. Iceland knew fishing and fished well. When both got into banking, things went serious ... Read more

From the WSJ: General Electric's Net Slides 44% . Here are a couple of slides from their investor presentation : Click on table for larger image in new window. The credit loss estimate is $2 trillion - just a little lower than my estimate of $2 to $2.5 trillion (Roubini's estimat ... Read ... Read more

General Electric (GE) announced guidance for the remainder of 2008 (like two weeks left) and the all important 2009. What is particularly important is that they are stepping away from quarterly guidance. Personally I applaud the change; quarterly guidance is fraught with dilemmas, coded talk and alc ... Read more

There was a fashion, once, for industrial conglomerates.  Companies would buy each other up and the market would reward the result with a higher PE than the components.  This got going in the 1960s and worked into the '70s, but went into reverse with the fashion for down-sizing, right-si ... Read more