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Slugcatcher on Woodside's get-out-of-jail-free merger card

DECADES  of dithering could be overcome if Woodside Petroleum shareholders accept the terms of the proposed integration with BHP Petroleum, a proposal which might have been delivered with a card from a game of Monopoly, you know the one: "Get out of jail free".

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Slugcatcher on Woodside's get-out-of-jail-free merger card

Until last week Woodside had been drifting ever closer to a point of no return, condemned to eking out profits from declining legacy assets while its owners (the shareholders) wondered what might have...

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