GE shares fall on report that cash situation worse than thought
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(Reuters) - General Electric shares fell 5% on Thursday after the Wall Street Journal reported that Harry Markopolos, a whistleblower in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi case, had alleged that company financial filings masked the depths of its problems.The Journal quoted Markopolos as saying in a research report that GE is short on working capital — a key measure of liquidity — and that its cash situation is far worse than disclosed in its regulatory filings.Reuters has not seen Markopolos'..