Angola State Oil Group Plans Production Increase
July 3rd, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report that Sonangol, the Angolan state oil group that has amassed assets from Iraq to Cuba, is aiming to raise fivefold its production as an operator. As the article notes: “…Manuel Vicente, whose promotion to minister of state for economic co-ordination in January ended his 12 years at the […]
Read more »Foreign Investors Getting Nervous About Argentina … Again
July 3rd, 2012
Two articles of interest on Argentina. The first, via Foreign Policy, looks at investor worries emanating from recent policy shifts: Argentina is once again rattling the nerves of foreign investors. The country that has been struggling to move on after its 2001 default and checkered economic history has recently nationalized the country’s largest private company, […]
Read more »The New Silk Road: Can a U.S.-Backed Initiative Bring Peace and Prosperity to Afghanistan?
July 3rd, 2012
Via Time Magazine, a look at a U.S. backed initiative to bring peace & prosperity to Afghanistan through trade: Trucker Saleem Khan likes to think of himself as a modern version of the camel drivers who once traversed the central Asian plateau in trade caravans destined for the suqs of Arabia, the bazaars of China […]
Read more »Africa’s Shaky Resurgence
July 1st, 2012
Via STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting look at Africa, a region that many have been optimistically positioning as a strong market in the near term: Emotion clouds analysis about Africa. Because so many in the West want to erase the stains of racism and slavery, there is a tendency to announce optimism about Africa even […]
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.