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This American Icon Is Poised to Bounce Back

By Brendan Byrnes | More Articles
December 30, 2011 | Comments (0)

The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series in which health-care editor and analyst David Williamson and industrials editor and analyst Brendan Byrnes discuss topics across the investing world.

In today's edition, Brendan and David discuss recent news from one of the largest corporations in the world, General Electric (NYSE: GE  ) . The company's GE Capital segment announced that it had struck a deal with MetLife to buy its U.S. retail deposit business. This should help the company reduce its risk and shore up its funding base. But do we like GE going forward?

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The Steve Jobs Betrayal
You may already know that in the final year of his life, Jobs revealed a stunning betrayal — and told his biographer, "I will spend my last dying breath... and every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank to right this wrong." What was it that made Jobs so irate — and why could it make a few in-the-know investors some major profits over the coming months and years?

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Brendan Byrnes does not own shares of the companies listed above. David Williamson owns shares of GE and Berkshire Hathaway. The Motley Fool owns shares of Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Berkshire Hathaway. The Fool owns shares of and has created a covered strangle position on Wells Fargo. Motley Fool newsletter services have recommended buying shares of Berkshire Hathaway. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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