The long-awaited General Electric (NYSE:GE) stock split is set for today as investors consider what the change means for the historic company. General Electric is dividing into three independent ...

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Investors are not mourning the end of GE as they, their fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers knew it. On the eve of the split the company’s market value hovered at around $190bn.