本期内容：

On Friday Dow Chemical and DuPont agreed to merge, continuing this year's run of big deals. The transaction is structured to give shareholders in the two American chemicals giants (worth around $60 billion each) equal shares in the combined company. The new entity will then be split into three bits, focusing on agriculture, material science and speciality products.

词义解析:

merge 合并

run of 连续上映

transaction 交易

shareholder 股东

split 拆分