Filed under: Forecasts, Good news, Rants and raves, Apple Inc (AAPL), Cisco Systems (CSCO), General Electric (GE), Stocks to Buy, Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG), Recession, American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) If there is anything that makes me think we could be close to a market bottom, it is all the peo...

Filed under: General Electric (GE), Diageo plc (DEO), Federal Natl Mtge (FNM), Anadarko Petroleum (APC), Wells Fargo (WFC), Chasing Value, Anglo Amer ADR (AAUK), Stocks to Buy, Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG), Annaly Capital Management (NLY) Anybody have capital gains to show this year? I didn't think...

Was it Arthur C. Clarke who said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic? If he was correct, it would follow that GE's new Energy Smart CFL (compact fluorescent light) bulb is most magical. A true product of "ecomagination" (their word), the imagineers (Disney's wor...

Filed under: Earnings reports, General Electric (GE) A lot of investors think that oil prices will determine what happens to the stock market over the next quarter, and for the most part, that is right. The world's largest conglomerate will report earnings next week. It has operations in almost ever...

Filed under: Major movement, General Electric (GE), General Motors (GM), DJIA Just as I finished reading a great article about turning trash to power, I went to check General Electric's(NYSE: GE)'stock. Seems that while I've learned how GE plans to convert garbage into electricity, its shares have b...

Filed under: Products and services, Launches, General Electric (GE), Time Warner (TWX), Walt Disney (DIS), Viacom (VIA), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), News Corp'B' (NWS) Since last year's summer movie preview featured mostly sequels and adaptations, this year's preview has been expanded to include more than ...

Filed under: Management, Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), General Electric (GE), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Merrill Lynch (MER), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Entrepreneurs, Serious Money Since I have been a shareholder...

Filed under: SEC filings, Deals, Press releases, Products and services, Management, Industry, Competitive strategy, General Electric (GE), Merrill Lynch (MER) General Electric (NYSE: GE) and Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER) announced a deal Monday, which will result in GE picking up most of Merrill's comme...