Hewlett-Packard laying off 25,000 to 30,000 employees
Hewlett-Packard is laying off 25,000 to 30,000 employees globally as part of a restructuring program that will save the company $2.7 billion per year. HP announced the layoffs on Sept. 15 at a meeting of its securities analysts. The cuts represent about 10 percent of HP’s workforce of about 302,000. It wasn’t immediately clear how Read More →
Carey & Hanna moving from Ventura to Oxnard
Ventura-based Carey & Hanna Tax and Wealth Planners is relocating to a larger office in Oxnard. Carey & Hanna Tax and Wealth Planners will move into the former National University building at 1000 Town Center Drive, Suite 200, on Oct. 22. The office has been located at 1445 Donlon Road, Suite 6 in Ventura since Read More →
Amgen licenses cancer drug to NatPharma
Amgen has licensed an experimental cancer drug to a Chicago biotech company founded and controlled by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong. NatPharma LLC is licensing the rights to AMG 337 from Thousand Oaks-based Amgen to develop and sell AMG 337. The drug is an experimental, phase-two cancer treatment. The licensing agreement is the second between Amgen and Read More →
Goleta-based Deckers hits 52-week low for stock price
Goleta-based Deckers Brands hit a 52-week low on Sept. 11 when it briefly fell to $59.62 per share. It closed Sept. 14 at $61.10. Shares of Deckers dropped about 33 percent so far this year from $89.74 on Jan. 2 before it closed at $60.65 on Sept. 11. Investment research firm Zacks said weak earnings Read More →
Dubroff: Investors should be skeptical about exchange-traded funds
Exchange-traded funds are the newest, latest, greatest Wall Street creation. In the past decade and a half, they’ve grown from a niche product with just $72 billion in assets invested to a behemoth totaling $2.7 trillion. Thanks to real-time daily pricing and low fees, ETFs are rapidly supplanting mutual funds in retail accounts. But the Read More →
