Junta-led Mali Begins Construction of Gold Refinery In Partnership With Russia
June 21st, 2025 Via Business Insider, a report on Mali’s decision to begin building a new gold refinery backed by Russia, a move its military-led government says will help the country gain greater control over [...]
Balkan Glitz: Jared Does Albania
June 21st, 2025 Via Air Mail, a report on why the president’s son-in-law pursuing a multi-billion-dollar development deal on an uninhabited—and uninhabitable—former Cold War base: In 1948, a group of Soviet [...]
Venezuela Is Open for Investment*
June 20th, 2025 Via The Atlantic, commentary on Venezuela’s openness for investment (provided the dictatorship falls): The end of Nicolás Maduro’s vicious dictatorship, many people can agree, would be a [...]
China, Kyrgyzstan, and the Quiet Construction of a Sanctions-Resistant Trade Corridor
June 20th, 2025 Via The Diplomat, a report on how every dollar that moves from Shenzhen to Bishkek to Moscow teaches China something new about how to operate in a sanctions-constrained world: Kyrgyzstan is not [...]
Chinese Companies Set Their Sights on Brazil
June 20th, 2025 Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on how – confronted with tariffs and scrutiny in the United States and Europe – Chinese consumer brands are betting that they can become household [...]
Damac puts $2.3B on Jakarta AI
June 20th, 2025 Via Semafor and Damac, a report on new UAE investment in Indonesia’s AI sector: Damac puts $2.3B on Jakarta AI Damac, Dubai’s largest private developer, is on a multibillion dollar spending [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.