Archive for 2010

Latin America: The Next Asia?

Courtesy of The Financial Times, commentary that Latin America is going to outperform all other emerging markets over the next 10 years, including Asia.  As the article notes: “…It seems like a crazy suggestion: Brazil may be hot, and Mexico slowly warming up, but how on earth can the likes of Argentina or Venezuela compare […]

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Africa’s Stock Is Rising

Courtesy of The Financial Times, a detailed look at Africa’s recent growth and prospects for future success.  As the article notes: “…In the half-century since colonial administrators began packing their pith helmets and heading home, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced a string of false dawns. Autocracies waxed and waned, accompanied by varying degrees of socialism, nationalism […]

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UAE Partnering With Nabucco?

Via Energy Daily, a report that the United Arab Emirates is moving into position as a possible partner in the planned 2,100-mile Nabucco pipeline to pump natural gas from the Caspian region to Europe.  As the article notes: “…The Emirates is using its $328 billion sovereign wealth fund to invest in energy-rich Turkmenistan, which has […]

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First Africa, Now The Middle East: Beijing’s Drive To Establish Links With Oil Rich States

Courtesy of Terra Daily, a report that China is negotiating with the Persian Gulf state of Qatar to sell an additional 10 million tons of liquefied natural gas a year, on top of the 5 million it already buys.  As the article notes: “…This is part of Beijing’s drive to establish strategic energy links with […]

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Iran – Pakistan – India Pipeline: New Discussions

Via Energy Daily, an update on the long discussed Iran – India – Pakistan pipeline.  As the article notes: As Iran braces for a new round of U.N. sanctions over its contentious nuclear program, Pakistan has called on longtime rival India to sign on to a planned $7.6 billion natural gas pipeline from the Islamic […]

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China Invests In Bangladesh

Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at the increasingly close relationship between China and Bangladesh: “…At Hambantota, a remote fishing town on Sri Lanka’s south coast, Chinese engineers are digging a channel through the region’s pristine beaches, connecting the Indian Ocean with a vast inland pit, whose soaring concrete walls dwarf the earth-moving equipment […]

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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.