Archive for December, 2015

Investing In Cuba’s Future
December 15th, 2015

Via Bloomberg, some commentary on Cuba: Don’t break out your Montecristos just yet, but the U.S. and Cuba just started talks on compensation claims for expropriated property and damages. It’s a promising moment for both sides — and more is at stake than the sums directly involved. Restoring economic ties between the U.S. and Cuba can speed an economic […]

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Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) Pipeline
December 15th, 2015

Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of latest developments regarding TAPI: Two workmen stand next to the symbolic first piece of a natural gas pipeline to China outside of Turkmenabat in 2007. Summary Turkmenistan has some of the largest natural gas reserves in the world, but as a landlocked country it has struggled to transport […]

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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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