Venezuela: Economic End Game Near?
November 13th, 2014
Via Business Insider, a look at Venezuela’s accelerating economic crisis: Venezuelan investors are abandoning ship en masse after the government indicated that it would not take immediate measures to stop the country from sinking deeper into chaos. “I am scared as hell,” one Latin American bond trader said. “Default [is] likely within 12 months; the oil […]
Read more »Emerging Markets: Showing Weakness?
November 9th, 2014
Via The Economist, a look at emerging markets in Q4 2014: INVESTORS in emerging markets know how quickly things can turn sour. In the mid 1990s fast-growing Thailand and Indonesia became known as the “Asian Tigers”. By 1997 they were suffering currency crises and had to be bailed out by the IMF. Nearly 20 years […]
Read more »Cuba Seeks Over $8 billion In Foreign Investment
November 4th, 2014
Via the Miami Herald, a look at Cuba’s investment needs: Cuba asked international companies on Monday to invest more than $8 billion in the island as it attempts to kick-start a centrally planned economy starved for cash and hamstrung by inefficiency. Foreign Commerce Minister Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz announced a list of 246 potential projects […]
Read more »Investing In Iran: Persia Requires Perseverance
November 4th, 2014
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at foreign firms’ interest in Iran: THE currency traders plying the half-empty arrivals hall of Tehran’s international airport have a simple view of the nuclear talks that Iran’s government is conducting with assorted foreign powers. If a deal is made, one says, “the planes will come in from everywhere.” […]
Read more »The 7 Fastest Growing Economies In Africa
October 3rd, 2014
Via Ventures Africa, a look at the quickest growing African economies: Only whisper it, but economic boom is coming to Africa. Yet this boom is not just coming from the continent’s natural resources, though they have surely helped, but rather less traditional business such as retail commerce, transportation, telecommunications and manufacturing. This economic growth is […]
Read more »Doing Business In The DPRK
September 30th, 2014
Courtesy of NK News, commentary on North Korea’s contemporary investment climate: North Korea’s business and investment environment is a subject on which little contemporary information exists, despite the country’s strategic location between three of the world’s largest economies. While in the early 2000s a relatively large number of Western companies expressed interest in the emerging […]
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.