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At July 29, 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" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "will" or words of similar meaning and include, but are not limited to, statements about expected future business and financial performance. Forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and assumptions, which are inherently subject to uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. Actual outcomes and results may differ materially from these expectations and assumptions due to changes in global political, economic, business, competitive, market, regulatory and other factors. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.

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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 herein 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 actual interim 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 at that date consolidated certain entities in our financial statements.

     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. Beginning in the second quarter of 2004, we reclassified the assets, liabilities and operations of consolidated, liquidating securitization entities into the associated financial statement captions. Because their assets and liabilities differ from other assets and liabilities in our financial statements, we are providing supplemental information about these matters below and in notes 5 and 7. Also, to ensure that we have presented all of our securitization activities clearly, we also are providing information about off-balance sheet assets in securitization entities.

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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.

     5. Financing receivables are summarized in the following table.

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

     6. Intangible assets are summarized in the following table.

Changes in goodwill balances follow.

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

     Amortization expense related to amortizable intangible assets was $195 million and $145 million, for the quarters ended June 30, 2004 and 2003, respectively. Amortization expense related to amortizable intangible assets was $336 million and $427 million, for the six months ended June 30, 2004 and 2003, respectively.

     Change 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 six months ended June 30, 2004 or 2003.

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    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.

     7. Borrowings are summarized in the following table.

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

     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, or 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 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 (GAAP). Certain of these data are considered "non-GAAP financial measures" under Securities and Exchange Commission regulations; those rules require the supplemental explanation and reconciliation provided in Exhibit 99 to this Form 10-Q report.

     See the Segment Operations section on page 14 for a more detailed discussion of our businesses.

Our second quarter 2004 results reflected the continued benefits of our ongoing strategies. Consumer Finance and Commercial Finance continued to grow with total assets up 21% and 8%, respectively, in the second quarter of 2004 compared with the second quarter of 2003. We closed two strategic acquisitions during the second quarter of 2004 - WMC Finance Co., a U.S. wholesale lender by Consumer Finance and the U.S. leasing business of IKON Office Solutions by Commercial Finance. On May 28, 2004, we completed an initial public offering of approximately 146 million, or 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 pre-tax loss of $0.6 billion ($0.3 billion after tax) recognized in the Insurance segment.

     Revenues for the second quarter and first half of 2004 increased 10% and 13%, respectively, over the comparable periods of 2003. The increase in revenues resulted from acquisitions and origination growth, primarily at Commercial Finance and Consumer Finance, and 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), 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 second quarter and first half of 2004 decreased $28 million and increased $7 million, 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.

     Other factors that were important to our reported operations included the first quarter consolidation of Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P., (Penske), which previously was 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 second quarter and $1.6 billion for the first half of 2004); we reported the increase primarily as operating lease rentals ($0.6 billion for the second quarter and $1.2 billion for the first half of 2004) and other income ($0.2 billion for the second quarter and $0.4 billion for the first half of 2004). Net earnings were unaffected by this change because our share of Penske earnings were previously reported on a one-line basis.

     Provision for income taxes for the second quarter of 2004 (an effective tax rate of 15.3%), compared with the second quarter of 2003 (an effective tax rate of 16.0%) decreased primarily as a result of 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. This decrease was partially offset by growth in our pre-tax earnings at Commercial Finance and Equipment & Other Services which was principally from sources subject to tax at a rate higher than our average rate for 2003.

     Provision for income taxes for the first half of 2004 (an effective tax rate of 17.9%), compared with the first half of 2003 (an effective tax rate of 15.8%) 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 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 second quarters and six months ended June 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 Global Insurance Holding (principally 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 herein to conform to the current period's presentation.

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