Aviation:

Boeing 787s are built at a South Carolina Boeing final assembly building in North Charleston, USA, Dec 19, 2013. [Photo/VCG]

General Electric signed three commercial deals worth $3.5 billion, including an engine and repair agreement with Juneyao Airlines worth $1.4 billion, a deal with ICBC Leasing for engines to power Boeing planes worth $1.1 billion and an agreement with China Datang Group to supply gas turbines worth $1 billion.

Reignwood Star, a civil aviation company based in Beijing, agreed to buy 50 helicopters from Bell Helicopter.