General Electric shed more of its major assets, announcing plans to cast away its health care business and sell its interests in the oil-services company, Baker Hughes. The company’s latest round of winnowing arrived Tuesday, the first time since 1907 that General Electric Co. will not be a member of the exclusive Dow Jones industrial average at the opening bell. The company says it’s reducing its debt by $25 billion and removing additional risk as it reimagines itself as something very different from the multinational conglomerate it was before the Great Recession. …read more
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