The weakness continues the damage suffered last week due to inflation pressures driving the 10-year Treasury yield to fresh seven-year highs. General Electric (NYSE: GE ) benefited from details released that suggest its new CEO has a huge incentive to drive company shares higher. Analyst Julian Mitchell cited the large reduction in earnings guidance and dividend cuts that are already priced in coupled with optimism over the newly anointed CEO as reasons for boosting his outlook on the ailing industrial giant.