SKF and GE Oil & Gas, a unit of $GE, signed non-exclusive, licence-based collaboration agreement, aimed at further developing use of active magnetic bearing technologies within oil and gas sector. GE Oil & Gas will make use of SKF’s magnetic bearing technologies from front-end engineering design to installation, testing and service.

$GE CEO Jeff Immelt said, "We expect cash flow to continue to improve throughout the year. We’ve reduced our industrial structural costs year-to-date by $670MM and we are on track to meet or exceed our $1Bil cost reduction target for the year."

Primarily due to $GE's shift of focus into industrial operations, its backlog in 2Q17 grew 2% to $327Bil, while orders increased 6% to $28.3Bil. $GE has a history of orders and backlogs growing faster than its revenue.

$GE's total revenue in 2Q17 fell 12% to $29.6Bil due to weakness in its Energy Connections segment, which supplies automation products to various industries including marine, mining and oil & gas. Revenue from this segment fell 27% during the quarter.

In 2Q17, which marks the end of Jeff Immelt at the helm of $GE after 16 years, the multinational conglomerate posted net earnings that more-than-halved to $1.19Bil, or $0.13 per share. On a non-GAAP basis, EPS declined 45% to $0.28 during the quarter.

$NEM elected Sheri Hickok and Molly Zhang to its BoD. Hickok is currently General Manager, Global Product Development, Onshore Wind at $GE's Renewable Energy. Zhang currently serves as a director of Cooper Standard Automotive and XG Science as a supervisory board member at GEA Group in Germany.

Kate Johnson to join $MSFT as President and Corporate VP of Microsoft US on Sept 8, 2017. Johnson currently serves as Chief Commercial Officer of GE Digital, a unit of $GE.

$GE said its subsidiary GE Healthcare is expanding its U.S. healthcare consulting business with the acquisition of Novia Strategies, a healthcare consulting firm, for undisclosed terms. Novia Strategies will become part of GE Healthcare Camden Group. Novia Solutions was not included as a part of this transaction.

Specialty materials manufacturer $ATI has entered into joint venture with $GE company GE Aviation for developing technology to produce a meltless titanium alloy powder. As per the deal, the companies will set up a new R&D pilot production facility. The alloy will be used in additive manufacturing applications, including 3D printing.

$GE closed the combination of GE's oil and gas business with Baker Hughes, a GE company. Under the deal, Baker Hughes was converted to a partnership and GE contributed its Oil & Gas business into that partnership. Meanwhile, $7.4Bil was contributed by GE to the partnership, which will be used to fund the cash dividend to Baker Hughes shareholders.

Oilfield solutions provider $BHI said it has completed the transaction combining the company with the oil and gas business of $GE. Baker Hughes shares will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BHGE on July 5, 2017. Meanwhile, the existing symbol, BHI, will be delisted from the stock exchange on July 3, 2017.

$BHI's stockowners were voted to approve the previously announced combination of $BHI with $GE's oil and gas business. The combination will create Baker Hughes, a $GE company, which will be traded on the NYSE under "BHGE" ticker. $BHI and $GE expects to close the transaction to combine $BHI and GE Oil & Gas on July 3, 2017.

GE Energy Financial Services, the energy unit of $GE, has raised a solar energy fund in Japan to invest in Japanese solar power projects. Development Bank of Japan Inc has committed as the anchor investor for one third of the interests. The fund is targeted at JPY 75Bil (about $666MM) and has the potential to grow to JPY 90Bil.

$GE said GE Aviation and its JV companies received more than $31Bil in orders and commitments at the 2017 Paris Air Show. The orders and commitments included more than 1,700 GE and CFM engines as well as a full suite of TrueChoice engine maintenance offerings.

$BA has entered into an agreement with GE Capital Aviation Services, the aircraft leasing and financing arm of $GE. Under the contract, Boeing will provide 20 737 MAX 10 to GE, converting the existing order of 20 MAX aircraft to the larger MAX 10 model.

$BA and GE Capital Aviation Services, the commercial aircraft leasing and financing arm of $GE, announced an order for 20 737 MAX 10s at the Paris Air Show, converting 20 of its current MAX orders to the larger MAX 10. GECAS has 170 737 MAX airplanes on order, the largest of any aircraft leasing company.

Parker Aerospace, a business segment of $PH, said it has been selected by $GE's GE Aviation to provide the lubrication and scavenge pump for the 1,300 to 2,000 shaft-horsepower small turboprop engine currently in development on the Advanced Turboprop (ATP), $GE's new advanced turboprop engine.