YPF: Here Today, Gone Today
April 17th, 2012
Via The Financial Times, a report on Argentina’s re-nationalization of YPF: So that’s that then. YPF is, once again, Argentina’s state oil company. According to a flurry of news reports after president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s TV address at noon on Monday in Buenos Aires, the federal and provincial governments of Argentina are its new […]
Read more »Dialing Down Corruption In Afghanistan
April 15th, 2012
Via Foreign Policy, a look at Afghan efforts to tackle corruption via cellular technology: Last week, Afghan president Hamid Karzai surprised U.S. and coalition officials by announcing the creation of a special tribunal and prosecutor to seek redress for the almost two year old Kabul Bank scandal. And earlier this month, the Afghan House of […]
Read more »Myanmar: Lots To Offer, But A Long Way To Go
April 15th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, one observer’s look at Myanmar’s potential: I spent a few days in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, just before this month’s elections. It was my first visit since 1985. Back then, there were one or two flights in a day from Bangkok on small planes. One could only stay a week […]
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 »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.