Somalia Seeks Foreign Investment in Energy Sector – Big Oil Cautious
October 14th, 2013
Via OilPrice.com, a report on Somalia’s oil ambitions: Oil companies are renowned for going into hostile environments in their relentless search for the world’s seemingly insatiable thirst for “black gold.” That said, there remain a few nations where even the intrepid masters of the universe hesitate to tread. In Central Asia, it is Afghanistan, despite […]
Read more »Snaxis Of Evil
October 12th, 2013
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an interesting look at snacks from some “black sheep” countries around the world: From Pepsi in Prague to Hershey bars in Hong Kong, American snack-makers enjoy a de facto oligopoly on global junk-food consumption. But what do snackers in U.S.-sanctioned countries eat when they get peckish? To find out, I embarked on […]
Read more »Nicaragua’s Proposed Canal: A Man, A Plan— And Little Else
October 11th, 2013
Via The Economist, an interesting article on Nicaragua’s proposed canal mega project: NOT since the civil war of the 1980s have so many helicopters been clattering over remote parts of Nicaragua. But now the guys squinting down through the tree canopy are in suits: lawyers and business consultants from the United States, Australian engineers, British […]
Read more »Don’t Be Fooled By Libya: This Is A Failed State – OpEd
October 11th, 2013
Via Oil Price.com, an OpEd on Libya: Gunmen today seized Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from a hotel in central Tripoli, releasing him shortly afterwards, but making it clear that post-Gaddafi Libya is a failed state and that the government is incapable of taking full control over its oilfields and export terminals. While the markets […]
Read more »Looking For Value In Unconventional Places
October 10th, 2013
Courtesy of Emerging Frontiers, a look at an international value investor focused on emerging markets: Chris Mayer is an international value investor with decades of experience under his belt as a corporate banker. Seeking riches among the ruins, Chris has traveled the world in search of value, often in under-appreciated sectors. Below is an excerpt […]
Read more »Emerging Markets
October 10th, 2013
Via Hedge Fund blog, an interesting review of emerging market opportunities: When China and India become the world’s biggest economies AGAIN so what? If you examine the last 20 centuries, USA was largest for 1, UK for 1 and China or India for the previous 18. Other things being equal, the most populated nations will […]
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.