Archive for July, 2010

Frontier Markets: Front And Center

Courtesy of The New York Times, an interesting report on the increasing popularity of frontier market investments and Nigeria in particular.  As the article notes: “THREE years ago, when Joseph Rohm, manager of the T. Rowe Price Africa and Middle East fund, visited Lagos, the capital of Nigeria, he was chaperoned by guards carrying semiautomatic […]

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Getting Syria-ous About Oil

Via Bloomberg, a report that Syria’s government has offered 74,000 square-kilometers of land, or 40 percent of the country, to international oil and gas companies for exploration.  According to the article: “…In addition to new exploration on the land, the ministry is seeking the restoration of old wells where production ceased in the past several […]

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Axis Of Oil

Via Forbes, an interesting report on the petroleum-based relationship between India and North Korea.  As the article notes: “…North Korea has found a new tap for its petrol thirst and at the same time a surprisingly significant trading partner–India. Bilateral trade between the two countries increased from an average of barely $100 million in the […]

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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.