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At October 25, 2004, 3,985,403 shares of voting common stock, which constitutes all of the outstanding common equity, with a par value of $4.00 per share were outstanding.

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This document contains "forward-looking statements" – that is, statements related to future, not past, events. In this context, forward-looking statements often address our expected future business and financial performance, and often contain words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," or "will." Forward-looking statements by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain. For us, particular uncertainties arise from the behavior of financial markets, including fluctuations in interest rates and commodity prices; from future integration of acquired businesses; from future financial performance of major industries which we serve including, without limitation, the air and rail transportation, energy generation, real estate and healthcare industries; from unanticipated loss development in our insurance businesses; and from numerous other matters of national, regional and global scale, including those of a political, economic, business, competitive or regulatory nature. These uncertainties may cause our actual future results to be materially different than those expressed in our forward-looking statements. We do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements.

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     1. The accompanying condensed, consolidated quarterly financial statements represent the consolidation of General Electric Capital Corporation and all of our affiliates (GECC). As described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, we reorganized our businesses on January 1, 2004, around markets and customers. On March 30, 2004, we provided the required reclassified prior-period information about this reorganization in a Form 8-K. We have reclassified certain prior-period amounts to conform to the current period's presentation.

     2. The condensed, consolidated quarterly financial statements and notes thereto are unaudited. These statements include all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) that we considered necessary to present a fair statement of the results of operations, financial position and cash flows. The results reported in these condensed, consolidated quarterly financial statements should not be regarded as necessarily indicative of results that may be expected for the entire year. We label our quarterly information using a calendar convention, that is, first quarter is labeled as ending on March 31, second quarter as ending on June 30, and third quarter as ending on September 30. It is our longstanding practice to establish interim quarterly closing dates using a fiscal calendar, which requires our businesses to close their books on a Saturday. The effects of this practice are modest and only exist within a reporting year. The fiscal closing calendar from 1993 through 2013 is available on our Web site, www.ge.com/en/company/investor/secreports.htm.

     3. We adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Interpretation No. (FIN) 46R, Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities (Revised), on January 1, 2004. This accounting change added $1.5 billion of assets and $1.1 billion of liabilities to our consolidated balance sheet as of that date resulting from the consolidation of Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P. (Penske), which was previously accounted for using the equity method. Penske provides full-service commercial truck leasing, truck rental and logistics services, primarily in North America. This accounting change did not require an adjustment to earnings and will not affect future earnings or cash flows.

     We adopted FIN 46, Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities on July 1, 2003, and for the first time consolidated certain special purpose entities. In total, transition resulted in a $339 million after-tax accounting charge to our third quarter 2003 net earnings which is reported in the caption Cumulative effect of accounting change.

• FIN 46 required that, if practicable, we consolidate assets and liabilities of FIN 46 entities based on their carrying amounts. For us, such transition losses were primarily associated with interest rate swaps that did not qualify for hedge accounting before transition. Additional transition losses arose from recording carrying amounts of assets and liabilities as we eliminated certain previously recognized gains.
   
• When it was impracticable to determine carrying amounts, as defined, FIN 46 required assets and liabilities to be consolidated at their July 1, 2003, fair values. We recognized a loss on consolidation of certain of these entities because the fair value of associated liabilities, including the fair values of interest rate swaps, exceeded independently appraised fair values of their related assets.

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• For assets that had been securitized using qualifying special purpose entities (QSPEs), transition carrying amounts were based on hypothetical repurchase of the assets at fair value. Transition effects associated with consolidation of these assets and liabilities were insignificant, as were transition effects of consolidating assets and liabilities associated with issuance of guaranteed income contracts (GICs).
   

     4. FIN 46 and FIN 46R changed the accounting for certain types of entities we use in the ordinary course of our securitization activities. Securitization entities consolidated as a result of FIN 46 and FIN 46R differ from other entities included in our consolidated financial statements because, by terms of relevant governing documents, the assets they hold, which are typically financial in nature, are legally isolated and are unavailable to us under any circumstances. Similarly, their liabilities are not our legal obligations but repayment depends primarily on cash flows generated by their assets. These securitization entities normally issue debt in the form of asset-backed securities, that is, debt secured by assets in the entity. We refer to certain of these entities as "consolidated, liquidating securitization entities" because we do not intend to replace the assets they contain; rather, we intend that such entities will liquidate as their assets are repaid. Because their assets and liabilities differ from other assets and liabilities in our financial statements, we are providing supplemental information about these entities below and in notes 5 and 7 along with information about off-balance sheet securitization entities.

We continue to engage in off-balance sheet securitization transactions with third-party entities and to use public market, term securitizations. The following table provides further information about the nature of the assets in securitization entities that are both consolidated and off-balance sheet.

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     5. Financing receivables – net, consisted of the following.

Included in the above are the financing receivables of consolidated, liquidating securitization entities as follows:

     6. Intangible assets are summarized in the following table.

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Changes in goodwill balances follow.

Indefinite-lived intangible assets were $4 million at September 30, 2004 and December 31, 2003, respectively, and related primarily to patents, licenses and other.

     Amortization expense related to amortizable intangible assets was $156 million and $222 million for the quarters ended September 30, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Amortization expense related to amortizable intangible assets was $498 million and $699 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2004 and 2003, respectively.

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Changes in PVFP balances follow.

We evaluate recoverability of PVFP periodically by comparing the current estimate of expected future gross profits with the unamortized asset balance. If such comparison indicates that the expected gross profits will not be sufficient to recover PVFP, the difference is charged to expense. No such expense was recorded in the nine months ended September 30, 2004 or 2003.

     Amortization expense for PVFP in future periods will be affected by acquisitions, realized capital gains and losses and other factors affecting the ultimate amount of gross profits realized from certain lines of business. Similarly, future amortization expense for other intangibles will depend on acquisition activity and other business transactions. The estimated percentage of the December 31, 2003, net PVFP balance to be amortized over each of the next five years follows.

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     7. Borrowings are summarized in the following table.

     8. Revenues from services are summarized in the following table.

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     9. A summary of increases (decreases) in shareowner's equity that did not result directly from transactions with the shareowner, net of income taxes, follows.

     10. On May 28, 2004, we completed the initial public offering of approximately 146 million shares, 30% of the common shares, of Genworth Financial, Inc. (Genworth), our formerly wholly-owned subsidiary that conducts most of our life and mortgage insurance operations. The transaction resulted in a second quarter pre-tax loss of $570 million ($336 million after tax) reported in our Insurance segment.

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In the accompanying analysis of financial information, we sometimes use information derived from consolidated financial information but not presented in our financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. (GAAP). Certain of these data are considered "non-GAAP financial measures" under Securities and Exchange Commission rules; those rules require the supplemental explanation and reconciliation provided in Exhibit 99 to this report on Form 10-Q.

     See the Segment Operations section on page 15 for a more detailed discussion of our businesses.

Our third quarter 2004 results reflected the continued benefits of our ongoing strategies. Consumer Finance and Commercial Finance continued to grow with total assets up 27% and 10%, respectively, in the third quarter of 2004 compared with the third quarter of 2003.

          We closed several strategic acquisitions during 2004 including:

• The commercial lending business of Transamerica Finance Corporation and Sophia S.A., a real estate company in France by Commercial Finance in the first quarter;
   
• WMC Finance Co., a U.S. residential mortgage lender by Consumer Finance and the U.S. leasing business of IKON Office Solutions by Commercial Finance in the second quarter; and

• Benchmark Group PLC, a U.K.-listed real estate property company by Commercial Finance in the third quarter.
   

On May 28, 2004, we completed an initial public offering of approximately 146 million shares, 30% of the common shares, of Genworth Financial, Inc. (Genworth), our formerly wholly-owned subsidiary that conducts most of our life and mortgage insurance operations. The effects of the transaction resulted in a second quarter pre-tax loss of $0.6 billion ($0.3 billion after tax) recognized in the Insurance segment.

     Revenues for the third quarter and first nine months of 2004 increased 4% and 10%, respectively, over the comparable periods of 2003. The increase in revenues resulted from acquisitions and origination growth, primarily at Commercial Finance and Consumer Finance, the consolidation of certain businesses as a result of the adoption of Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Interpretation No. (FIN) 46R, Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities (Revised) and the net effects of the weaker U.S. dollar, partially offset by the absence of revenues from businesses disposed of in 2003 and the effects of the Genworth initial public offering at Insurance.

     Net earnings for the third quarter and first nine months of 2004 increased 35% and 12%, respectively, over the comparable periods of 2003.

     We integrate acquisitions as quickly as possible and only revenues and earnings from the date we complete the acquisition through the end of the fourth following quarter are attributed to such businesses.

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     Effects of the acquisitions and dispositions on comparisons of our operations follow.

In the first quarter of 2004 we consolidated Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P., (Penske), which we previously accounted for using the equity method. Penske provides full-service commercial truck leasing, truck rental and logistics services, primarily in North America. This consolidation increased our reported revenues ($0.8 billion for the third quarter and $2.4 billion for the first nine months of 2004); we reported the increase primarily as operating lease rentals ($0.7 billion for the third quarter and $1.9 billion for the first nine months of 2004) and other income ($0.1 billion for the third quarter and $0.5 billion for the first nine months of 2004). Net earnings were unaffected by this change because our share of Penske earnings was previously reported on a one-line basis.

      Provision for income taxes for the third quarter of 2004 (effective tax rate of 22.7%), compared with the third quarter of 2003 (effective tax rate of 22.3%) increased primarily because of growth in our pre-tax earnings at Commercial Finance and Equipment & Other Services that was principally from sources subject to tax at a rate higher than our average rate for 2003, partially offset by the absence of the effects of the 2003 sale of GE Edison Life and U.S. Auto and Home business.

     Provision for income taxes for the first nine months of 2004 (effective tax rate of 19.9%), compared with the first nine months of 2003 (effective tax rate of 18.4%) increased primarily because growth in our pre-tax earnings at Commercial Finance and Equipment & Other Services was principally from sources subject to tax at a rate higher than our average rate for 2003. This increase was partially offset by the absence of the effects of the 2003 sale of GE Edison Life and U.S. Auto and Home business, our settling several issues with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and adjustments to our full-year estimated effective tax rate for 2004, in accordance with policy, to reflect the tax benefits associated with the disposition of Genworth shares.

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Revenues and net earnings by operating segment of General Electric Capital Services, Inc. (GECS), the sole owner of the common stock of GECC, for the third quarters and nine months ended September 30, 2004 and 2003, are summarized and discussed below with a reconciliation to the GECC-only results. The most significant component of these reconciliations is the exclusion from the Insurance segment at the GECC level of the results of GE Insurance Solutions Corporation (GE Insurance Solutions), formerly GE Global Insurance Holding Corporation, the parent of Employers Reinsurance Corporation (ERC), which is not a subsidiary of GECC but is a subsidiary of GECS. As discussed in our 2003 Annual Report on Form 10-K, effective January 1, 2004, we made changes to the way we report our segments. We have reclassified certain prior-period amounts to conform to the current period's presentation.