. >> reporter: it's a dog with different fleas, as gordon gekko might say. it's a penny stock.eporter: well, ge isn't a penny stock. liz: not at all. >> reporter: not at all. now, interesting thing in light of the tragedy that happened yesterday, i was talking to some people, jeff immelt gave some interesting remarks at a wharton conference, a wharton business school conference if new york about a month ago. immelt is the ceo of ge, one of the biggest companies in the world, talks to a lot of other, you know, similarly-sized, you know, ceos from similarly-sized companies. the question he was asked was cash. why are all these big companies like ge, you name it, holding cash? it's also known as liquidity. why is there so much liquidity? and he said in the post-9/11 world one of the things corporations have to take into account, one of the major things is terrorism. and i never heard it butt that bluntly -- put that bluntly, the notion that something bad could happen, a 9/11 sort of magnitude or something like what happened yesterday, that something like that is now part of the co