Archive for May, 2010

Finding Green In Brazil
May 4th, 2010

Courtesy of Mark Mobius, a look at Brazil, not only from an investment perspective but also that of the environment.  As the article notes: “…We started investing in Brazil in the early 1990s when inflation was running at as high as 5,000%. On a visit to Rio de Janeiro, I remember telling my Brazilian friends […]

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Vietnam: A Future BRIC?
May 4th, 2010

Via Nicholas Vardy, a look at Vietnam and the possibility that it may continue to grow closer to BRIC status in the years ahead: More than 30 years after the fall of Saigon, the word “Vietnam” still evokes one of the most shameful chapters in recent American history. And Vietnam itself remains a country of […]

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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.

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