General Electric’s Jeff Immelt is stepping down; John Flannery named chairman and CEO

General Electric on Monday announced that Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt will be stepping down, a management shake-up that many people saw coming. Shares of GE climbed more than 3 percent in premarket trading following this news. As of Friday’s close, the stock...

Ethereum hits another record high after bitcoin and is up over 5,000% since the start of the year

Ether is the name of the cryptocurrency which runs on the ethereum blockchain, which is the technology that underpins the digital coin. But ethereum is often used as shorthand for the digital currency as well. Ethereum has been designed to support so-called smart...