After Occidental (OXY) revealed that it has sent a letter to the Anadarko (APC) board offering to outbid Chevron (CVX) with a proposed buyout of $76 per share in cash and stock, Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov called this "unambiguously bad news" for Occidental shares in the very near term, including today's trading. By setting up "a virtually unprecedented scenario" of a true bidding war in the E&P industry, Occidental has put its shareholders "in a difficult position," added the analyst, who said this is a hard situation to call but he thinks Chevron is more likely to emerge as the winning suitor in the end.