The top five financial truths in blockbuster Amgen-Onyx deal
For sheer size and scale, Amgen’s $10.4 billion purchase of South San Francisco-based cancer drug maker Onyx Pharmaceuticals dwarfs any recent deal in the Tri-Counties. For size, let’s remember that Dole Food Co. is selling its entire self for about $1.3 billion and that Santa Barbara Bank & Trust parent Pacific Capital Bancorp, previously the Read More →
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My first job in journalism was phoning in the Northwood High School basketball scores to the Washington Post, a task typically performed from a pay phone outside a fast food joint in Four Corners, Md. My pay was $4 per game, enough for a burger, fries and a shake. That was in the 1960s, and Read More →
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