General Electric

'Too big to fail' became the signature line of the financial crisis. Five years after the crash, many big financial firms are only bigger. But one has decided it's time to shrink.

General Electric is making plans to sell off its retail lending business, including store credit cards.

General Electric plans to spin off its highly profitable credit card business, which made the company $2.2 billion last year.

Federal regulators have identified two companies, insurer AIG and GE Capital, as 'systemically important' corporations and say that both will be subject to increased scrutiny.

Which has had fewer leadership changes in the last 100 years: The Catholic Church or General Electric?

GE reports earnings today and analysts will look closely at the performance of its finance arm

General Electric's chief technology officer Mark Little talks about leaps forward in energy efficiency in the new year, and we breathe a sigh of relief after a brief Netflix outage.

McDonald's said today its profits were up 7 percent last quarter, thanks to a 9 percent rise in U.S. restaurant sales and a 5 percent boost in Europe. Also General Electric reported an 11 percent drop in profit during the first three months of the year.

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