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GE sells transportation unit for $11 bln

General Electric confirmed it was unloading the bulk of its transportation business which makes train engines to Wabtec, a U.S. manufacturer of equipment for the rail industry, in a deal valued at about $11 billion. Aleksandra Michalska reports.