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Speaker 1: You're listening to taking stock with pim Box and katholeen

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Speaker 1: As on Bloomberg Radio. General Electric GE isn't too big

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Speaker 1: to fail anymore. All it took was the most sweeping

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Speaker 1: transformation in the companies one hundred twenty four year history.

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Speaker 1: The f s o C, the Financial Stability Oversight Council,

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Speaker 1: released GE from its designation as a city, a systemically

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Speaker 1: important financial institution, it said Wednesday, no longer poses a

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Speaker 1: threat to US financial stability. Seems superior relief not only

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Speaker 1: to financial regulators but also to investors. Joining us now

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Speaker 1: to discuss this story why it is so important in

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Speaker 1: where GE is now and where It's going is Rick Cluff.

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Speaker 1: He's industrial reporter at Bloomberg News. GE, of course is

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Speaker 1: one of the companies he varies very very closely, and

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Speaker 1: he's joining us here in studio. Rick. Welcome, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: So uh GE Capital long gone, right, I mean that

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Speaker 1: that God started trimmed down even during the crisis almost

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Speaker 1: What has g E been doing to finally reach the

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Speaker 1: point where you can say, don't don't worry about us anymore.

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Speaker 1: We're not doing too much banking and finance kind of

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Speaker 1: stuff anymore, well even doing a whole lot, and G

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Speaker 1: Capital isn't technically gone. What they're keeping are a couple

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Speaker 1: of businesses that will support their manufacturing businesses. So for instance,

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Speaker 1: they're going to continue doing aircraft leasing because they also

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Speaker 1: make jet engines. So they're keeping a few things, but

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Speaker 1: they've they've sold off the bulk of of G Capital,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the whole range of businesses like vehicle fleet

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Speaker 1: But they've been doing this. They've sold almost two hundred

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Speaker 1: billion dollars facets in in about fifteen months. So give

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Speaker 1: us if you could just roughly like figures of how

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Speaker 1: big capital was and what it is now. And of

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Speaker 1: course you point out in one of your stories, Hey,

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Speaker 1: big victory for Jeff mL you know, the guy who's

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Speaker 1: been trying to fill jack walts, you know, uh shoes

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Speaker 1: up all this financing, this G capital behemoth. Jeff very

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Speaker 1: quickly said, oh no more. But what what what? What?

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Speaker 1: What size is it? What is it now? Well? You

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Speaker 1: know it. It used to be actually about half of

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Speaker 1: of g I mean, um, about half of their earnings,

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Speaker 1: about half of their sales came from from finance. And

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Speaker 1: they announced this plan a little over a year ago

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Speaker 1: and and have said that that they want to shrink

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Speaker 1: and they're they're just about there. So how profitable is

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Speaker 1: that it keeps the cost down for GE by having

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Speaker 1: an arm that does some of this very important financing

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Speaker 1: for a couple of it's very important divisions. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: and it's not really about profitability. Um, it's not the

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Speaker 1: G Capital wasn't profitable. It was that it was volatile,

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Speaker 1: them to uh to basically decide what they're doing with

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Speaker 1: for a number of years that they were going to

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Speaker 1: plan and said that that they're going to get rid

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Speaker 1: of almost all of it. And now by having businesses

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Speaker 1: finance businesses that that support their their manufacturing ones, there's

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Speaker 1: uh more kind of synergy and and so so I

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Speaker 1: think investors know what they're dealing with a little better.

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Speaker 1: And in fact, your story also points out that selling

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Speaker 1: a really important reason why some big activist type investors

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Speaker 1: have taken large stakes in g Yeah, yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 1: Nelson peltz Um was the big name that came in

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Speaker 1: you know, it was one it was after that that

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Speaker 1: they're they're really they still saw a lot of upside

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Speaker 1: and then they still have a pretty substantial steak. But

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Speaker 1: but yeah, a lot of investors, um, activists and otherwise

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Speaker 1: doesn't it doesn't get much above what thirty two dollars

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Speaker 1: to share doesn't know what's is Jeff Emil ever going

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Speaker 1: he had years ago before the crisis. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: There's some analysts that think it could double by the

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Speaker 1: end of the decade. Oh you're that investors large and small,

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Speaker 1: that would be nice double by the end of the decade.

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Speaker 1: Rick Cloth, thank you so much for joining us. He

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