Going Beyond The BRICS To Invest In MIST
August 8th, 2012
Via NASDAQ, an article on the MIST investment opportunity: Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs is well known as the man who coined the acronym BRIC. He has now created another acronym gaining traction thanks to a fund he launched last year: MIST, which stands for Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea and Turkey. The MIST countries are […]
Read more »Cuba Oil Production: Between A Rock And A Hard Place
August 8th, 2012
Via the Financial Times, a short article on Cuba’s offshore oil ambitions: Cuba has found itself between a rock and a hard place in its quest to find oil in its territorial waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Several rocks and several hard places, in fact. After a discovery that failed to reach commercial proportions […]
Read more »Sudan-South Sudan Oil Deal
August 8th, 2012
Courtesy of The Council On Foreign Relations, a report on US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s efforts to help arrange a Sudan-South Sudan oil agreement: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) meets with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir at the Presidential Office Building in Juba August 3, 2012. (POOL New/Courtesy Reuters) The agreement […]
Read more »Colombia: Different Than Brazil
August 8th, 2012
Via The Financial Times, a look at Colombia: With his deep, chanting voice and contagious laughs he can convince you everything is going according to plan. “We have systematically and purposefully over-performed,” says Juan Carlos Echeverry, Colombia’s finance minister. For him, it is a virtuous circle: confidence, which leads to job creation, which leads to […]
Read more »Indonesia’s Consumer Power
August 6th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Indonesia: Is there no stopping the Indonesian consumer? Second quarter GDP figures out on Monday showed the economy growing 6.4 per cent year on year, up from 6.3 per cent in the previous quarter and a healthy chunk more than the Bloomberg consensus of 6.1 per cent. […]
Read more »Multinationals Reevaluating Growth Targets in Latin America
August 6th, 2012
Via Emerging Markets Insight, a look at South America: Weaker regional growth in the first half of the year has driven multinationals to reevaluate their growth targets for 2012 as Argentina’s business landscape grows increasingly unnerving, Brazil’s economy slows, and devaluation risks in Venezuela swell as President Chavez drives up fiscal spending as part of […]
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.