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Slugcatcher and Chevron's move up the oil industry pecking order

THERE'S never one cockroach in the kitchen, a nifty way for Slugcatcher to say that the planned merger of Chevron and Anadarko will almost certainly not be the last in the oil sector now that the deal cupboard, closed for five years, has been re-opened.

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Could smaller companies follow large in new round of acquisitions?

In fact, there's no guarantee that Chevron's cash and share-swap deal with Anadarko will be the last word in that proposed transaction with other members of the big-oil club undoubtedly thinking about...

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