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...General Electric (GE) used to be a fairly stable company with a fairly stable stock price. Problems with earnings, missed forecasts, and speculation about the health of its financial services division have made GE's stock volatile and sensitive to rumors. As of April 15, the short interest in GE dropped 6% compared to the measurement two weeks before to a total of 197 million shares. Over that period, GE traded an average of 136 million shares a day, so the short interest is tiny compared with the volume. For short sellers, that is a big plus. High trading volume...
...much of a brand until it introduced the iPod in 2001, but the firm was around for a long time before then. RIMM and the Blackberry are young in the brand Hall of Fame, a group that is dominated by Coca-Cola (KO), IBM (IBM), Microsoft (MSFT), and GE (GE). Interbrand, the Rolls Royce of global brand research, has Apple and Blackberry on its list of the 100 Most Valuable Brands. The list is not infallible; it includes Xerox (XRX), which should have left for "brand heaven" a long time...
...Networks - the Miami smart-grid program will be by far the largest in the U.S. If it succeeds, FPL plans to invest another $500 million to roll out the service to all of its 4.5 million customers. "This is not a science-fair project," says Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, which will be providing smart meters for the initiative. "This is commercial technology that shows the smart grid is real." (Read "How Vulnerable Is the Power Grid...
...GE's smart meters will be the cornerstone of the program, which is called Energy Smart Miami. While conventional meters do little more than count up the kilowatts sent to a building - they're one-way devices, which means that if a home loses power, the utility doesn't know about it until they receive a phone call - smart meters will communicate two ways, like a computer, allowing utilities to keep precise tabs on their power flow and customers to go online and monitor exactly how much electricity they're using at any given time, by the month...
...rise in prime mortgage defaults dampened the hopes that the housing market was in the midst of a comeback and the first few companies that have announced earnings have done no better than their gloomy forecasts said that they would. Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) lost its Triple-A rating as GE (GE) did just a few weeks ago. The period of the Fort Knox balance sheet is over in America. As of the Berkshire news, all corporate debt officially carries risk...