Myanmar: The Next Frontier?
November 29th, 2011
Via The Wall Street Journal, an interesting article on Myanmar and the renewed investor interest as signs of a thaw between its government and Western leaders raise hopes of a possible end to Western sanctions: For now, the push is confined mainly to Asian companies that aren’t covered by tough sanctions imposed by the U.S. […]
Read more »BRICs at 10
November 29th, 2011
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on the growth and investment returns of the BRICs as they cross the age of 10: So, was he right? Ten years ago Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs looked at four growth economies – Brazil, China, India and Russia – put their first letters into an acronym, and […]
Read more »Myanmar: Pivot Point Of China’s Grand Economic Strategy For Western China
November 29th, 2011
Courtesy of the Global Times, a look at the impact that the United States’ recent efforts to engage Myanmar may have upon China’s long-term strategic interest in the country: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Myanmar, starting today, will further unnerve China, which has recently been increasingly worried that the aim of the […]
Read more »Indian Consortium Wins $10bn Afghanistan Mines Deal
November 29th, 2011
Via the BBC, a report that a consortium of Indian companies has won the right to develop some of Afghanistan’s large iron ore deposits. As the article notes: “Seven Indian companies, led by the state-owned Steel Authority of India, won a $10.3bn (£6.6bn) deal to mine three sites in central Afghanistan. A fourth site was […]
Read more »A Real Emerging Market?
November 24th, 2011
Via Hedge Fund, a slightly dated (2010) but highly interesting and relevant article on emerging markets that most people may not think of: Emerging markets have done well. Most investors used to focus on “developed” nations due to the Asia crisis, Russia default and 1990s bubble. They missed excellent returns “overseas” but endured the uncompensated […]
Read more »Exxon’s Big Gamble In Kurdistan
November 24th, 2011
Via Foreign Policy, an article on Exxon Mobile’s big gamble in Kurdistan: Has ExxonMobil — the annoyingly prissy schoolboy who always obeys the teacher — risked weakening one of its distinguishing pillars in order to break into a single oil patch? And if so, could that shake up the global oil market along with geopolitics? […]
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.