Archive for July, 2013

Russia: Victorious In Battle Of Pipeline Politics, But Now What?
July 2nd, 2013

Via Quartz, an interesting article on Russia’s pipeline politics victory: Russia has won a big round in an almost two-decade battle with the West over the flow of natural gas from the Caspian Sea. But the June 28 victory is a mixed one for Moscow, for it helps undermine the rationale for another Russian project—one […]

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Djibouti: Africa’s Next Trade Hub
July 2nd, 2013

Via WikiStrat, a look at Djibouti’s economic potential: Djibouti has served as the main port that connects Ethiopia’s economy with that of the rest of the world since the Ethiopia/Eritrea war eliminated Eritrea as a port for Ethiopian goods. At the start of the 21st century, the vast majority of Ethiopian exports traveling through Djibouti […]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.

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