Seeking Alpha: General Electric Company Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

Operator:
Welcome to the General Electric third quarter 2008 earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) I would now like to turn the program over to your host for today’s conference Trevor Schauenberg, VP of Investor Communications.

Trevor Schauenberg:
Joanna Morse and I are pleased to host today’s call. Hopefully you have the press release from earlier this morning and the slides we’ll be walking through are available on our website at www.GE.com. If you don’t see it please refresh, you can download or print to follow along. As always elements of this presentation are forward looking and are based on our best view of the world and our businesses as we see them today. Those elements can change as the world changes. Please interpret them in that light.
We will be reviewing the GE press release that went out earlier today and have time for Q&A at the end. For today’s webcast we have our Chairman and CEO, Jeff Immelt, and our Vice Chairman and CFO, Keith Sherin.
Now I’d like to turn it over to our Chairman and CEO, Jeff Immelt.

Jeff Immelt:
On the overview page clearly to everyone the environment remains very volatile. The global financial system is tough. We see consumer confidence falling, unemployment up again last week but we still see pockets...

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