Emerging Markets: Facing Harder Climb?
August 26th, 2012
Via The Financial Times, some interesting commentary on the challenges ahead for emerging markets: Only a year ago sentiment about emerging market equities was overwhelmingly optimistic. Today pessimism is rife, though not yet uniform. On the S&P Global Broad Market Index emerging markets were down 17.6 per cent in the year to July 31, while […]
Read more »Mexico: An Under-The-Radar Hotspot For VC Investors In Latin America
August 21st, 2012
Via GigaOm, a look at whether Mexico is the “new Brazil” for venture capital investing: Brazil was yesterday’s hotspot for investing in startups in Latin America — tomorrow’s may be Mexico. On the heels of Dave McClure’s firm 500 Startups doubling down on Mexico by acquiring a local accelerator, one of Mexico’s most aggressive VC […]
Read more »Russia: Courting The East, Not The West
August 21st, 2012
Via The Financial Times, an interesting article on Russia’s efforts to to woo its Asian neighbours, pouring money into Far East cities such as Vladivostok and seeking out new trade opportunities there: If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then for the South Korean dignitaries it was a sight to behold. On a recent […]
Read more »Emerging iPhone App Markets: Russia, Brazil, Mexico and Turkey
August 19th, 2012
Via TheNextWeb, analysis of some emergin iPhone app markets worldwide: Two years ago, the total overall revenue generated in the Apple App Store was predominantly generated by the United States. Looking at the revenues generated by the top 200 highest grossing apps per country in June 2010, the US was responsible for 45% of this […]
Read more »China And North Korea Explore Cooperation
August 19th, 2012
Via AsiaNews, a report on China and North Korea’s cooperation: Beijing resolutely supports Pyongyang developing its economy and expects to explore new ways of cooperation, top Chinese leaders said yesterday when meeting the highest-level official from Pyongyang since Kim Jong-un took office. North Korean President Hu Jintao and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made the remarks […]
Read more »In Search of the Global Middle Class: A New Index
August 16th, 2012
Via The Carnegie Endowment, an interesting article on potential to use the number of passenger cars in circulation as a direct measure of the middle class in developing countries: The swelling middle class in emerging economies has received much attention in recent years, as it well should. The implications of its rise are far-reaching, from […]
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.