East Africa: An Oil El Dorado?
April 15th, 2012
Via The Economist, a report on east Africa’s recent efforts to reach its energy potential: IN ENERGY terms, east Africa has long been the continent’s poor cousin. Until last year it was thought to have no more than 6 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, compared with 60 billion in west Africa and even more […]
Read more »Myanmar: An Exchange Rate That Makes Sense
April 8th, 2012
Via Time’s Global Spin blog, a look at how Myanmar’s central bank has set a new value on the national currency to reflect what it’s actually worth. But much more needs to be done to fix the country’s broken economy as the article notes: Workers count Burmese kyat currency at a bank April 5, 2012 […]
Read more »Brazil: Is Carnaval Over?
April 8th, 2012
Via Foreign Policy, a look at Brazil and what some are calling the end of the Brazilian miracle. As the article notes: When she strides into the White House on Monday, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will carry with her one thing sure to draw the envy of her American counterpart Barack Obama — a whopping […]
Read more »Turkey’s Growing Involvement In Central Asia
April 6th, 2012
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of Turkey’s rise as a regional power in Central Asia: Turkey’s primary rivals in Central Asia, Russia and China, have strategic interests in the region. Russia considers the region a security buffer from other Asian powers and an important part of the Russian energy network. Russia is very politically, […]
Read more »China’s Influence in Myanmar
April 6th, 2012
Via STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at China’s enduring influence in Myanmar: China’s Foreign Ministry released a statement today calling on Western powers to lift all sanctions on Myanmar after the country’s by-elections were regarded by international monitors as relatively free and fair. This is an unusual statement from a state that the West has […]
Read more »Myanmar
April 5th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how Myanmar’s reform promises opportunities for overseas investors – but makes locals and neighbors alike wary: Near Yangon’s historic riverfront on Monday, the buzz at the Thein Phyu Money Changer Centre came not only from the overnight news that Aung San Suu Kyi and her opposition National […]
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.