City of Silk Rail Network to Link Middle East & China
August 4th, 2008
Via Inhabitat, news that Camassive urban masterplan has been approved for Madinat al-Hareer, or City of Silk, in Subiya, Kuwait. With a budget of £66 billion ($132bn USD), the project is an ambitious endeavor that will provide a rail network between major Middle East cities and China. As the article notes: “…Kuwait, Damascus, Baghdad, and […]
Read more »Venezuela: Business & The State
August 4th, 2008
As reported in The Wall Street Journal, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s decision to take over a unit of Spanish giant Banco Santander SA carries a new set of risks, touching on local confidence in the banking system As the article notes: “…Banking affects Venezuelans more personally and immediately than oil, telecommunications and other strategic industries […]
Read more »Pakistan: Risk or Opportunity?
August 4th, 2008
As recently reported by The Wall Street Journal, the stock market in Pakistan continues to see year-long lows, dealing a sharp rebuke to a new government struggling to gain the confidence of foreign and domestic investors. As the article notes: “…Financial authorities recently unveiled a variety of measures intended to help steady both the economy […]
Read more »Russia’s Far Eastern Frontier: Energy as a Political Tool
August 1st, 2008
As recently reported in The Japan Focus, Russia’s Far Eastern frontier is now turning into the place where energy export becomes a political tool in shaping the country’s relations with regional neighbors. China, the two Koreas, and Japan are hungry for energy, natural resources and, at the same time, seek economic and political cooperation. In […]
Read more »Venezuelan-Russian Energy Axis: Global Power Politics
August 1st, 2008
As recently discussed by The Latin Business Chronicle, the emerging Venezuelan-Russian energy axis is a 21st-century throwback to the Cold War Soviet-Cuban alliance and may be emblematic of geopolitical forces rising to challenge U.S. leadership and influence. As the article notes: “…Chávez and the Russian duo want to redistribute global power as expediently as possible. […]
Read more »Race to the Frontier
August 1st, 2008
From The Financial Times, an interesting article noting that, while investor appetite for emerging markets is dwindling as worries about rising inflation and falling equity markets grow – particularly in China and India – frontier markets such as Africa and the Middle East remain quite popular. As the report notes: “…African markets are not immune […]
Read more »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.