GE Brings Bad Things to Light

If nothing else, General Electric Chief Executive Officer Larry Culp has a keen grasp of investor psychology. A little more than a week after he let slip at a conference that industrial free cash flow at the troubled conglomerate would be negative this year, he attached specific, ugly numbers to that expectation in a Thursday morning investor update. GE shares rose sharply anyway as the glimmers of hope and specific action Mr. Culp outlined lifted spirits.

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(Read the rest of this column in the WSJ).