Vietnam’s Catch-22 In Courting China As Rare Earth Partner
Via South China Morning Post, commentary on Vietnam’s Catch-22 in courting China as a rare earth partner: In many ways, Beijing is the perfect partner for Hanoi’s rare earth processing industry [...]
India’s Greatest Export: Curry
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at the global curry trail across continents where variations of the traditional Tamil dish have conquered the culinary world: Curries vary by type and flavor not only from [...]
The Super Peso
Courtesy of Latinometrics, a look at how the Mexican peso is outshining the rest of the world: First, there’s the good: Mexican businesses and consumers can buy foreign goods, invest, and [...]
Gazprom’s Declining Fortunes Spell Trouble for Moscow
Via Foreign Policy, an article on why Gazprom’s record loss should worry the Kremlin on several fronts: At the end of 2022, Dmitry Medvedev—Russia’s former prime minister and the current deputy [...]
Privatization in Uzbekistan: Potential Far From Fulfilled
Via The Diplomat, a report that – while some progress has been made – foreign investors are starting to wonder if Uzbekistan’s privatization agenda will ever live up to its much-lauded [...]
Brazilian Niobium Carves Out An Energy Niche
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Brazilian niobium: Among Brazil’s abundant mineral riches — from iron ore and gold to precious stones and copper — is one niche metal that almost [...]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.