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Derivatives are not suitable for all investors and involve the risk of losing more than the amount

originally deposited and any profits you might have made. This is not a recommendation to offer

to buy, sell, or retain any specific investment or service. Big conglomerates used to define

corporate best practice.

They were like business royalty that drove American industry.

How can I help you guys out?

We're journalists. We're here to do a story about GE.

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And arguably, no one was more powerful than General Electric.

They were known as the Everything Company.

What you need to do is spin right around this guard check and that one, you're making a U-turn.

My colleague Amanda Chu recently drove up to GE's old headquarters in Schenectady, New York.

So there's a massive GE sign when you drive in.

You can't really miss the plant.

I think the whole place has its own zip code.

One, two, three, four, five.

Schenectady is the place where Thomas Edison,

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