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Siemens Energy Stock Plummets on Wind Power Worries. What GE Investors Need to Know.

Oct 26, 2023, 2:07 pm EDT

Making wind-power-generation equipment isn’t a great business these days. Just look at Siemens Energy: Concerns about its business wiped out more than $3 billion in market value Thursday in overseas trading.

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