How China Is Taking The Silk Road To Financial Dominance
November 16th, 2016
Via CapX, a look at China’s Silk Road ambitions: Forget, for a moment, the uncertainties surrounding President-elect Donald Trump. Because in the East, the world’s biggest ever credit boom is set to get even bigger. What’s more, it is not being built around the US dollar, but around a new emerging global currency: the Chinese […]
Read more »Pakistan, China Launch New Trade Route
November 14th, 2016
Via Terra Daily, a look at a new trade route linking southwestern Gwadar port to the Chinese city of Kashgar: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Sunday inaugurated a trade route linking southwestern Gwadar port to the Chinese city of Kashgar as part of a joint multi-billion-dollar project to jumpstart economic growth in the South Asian country. […]
Read more »Iran’s New Petroleum Contract Regime Attracts First Foreign Companies
November 8th, 2016
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on Iran’s new contract regime: The Iran Petroleum Contract has passed a major milestone, with the first two foreign firms signing a preliminary agreement under the terms. The contractual regime, put in place in April 2016 and meant to help attract $130 billion in foreign investment, is part of moderate […]
Read more »Myanmar: Ground Zero For China-India Energy Competition
November 6th, 2016
Via The Eurasia Review, a look at Myanmar’s position in the growing competition between China and India over energy resources: Since the early 1990s, China’s remarkable economic growth has led to a dramatic increase in its domestic energy needs, prompting its state-owned national oil companies (NOCs) to embark upon a worldwide search for oil and […]
Read more »‘Safest’ Frontier Markets For Investments
November 2nd, 2016
Courtesy of Investment Frontier, a list of the safest frontier markets to invest in: Our rankings rely on three main sources of rankings: the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Rankings, Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, and the Fund For Peace’s Fragile States Index. Our previous rankings relied on the 2015 rankings from all three […]
Read more »Iran: Open For Telecommunication Connections
November 2nd, 2016
Via The Iran Project, a report on Iran’s telephony market: When Twitter’s Jack Dorsey tweeted Hassan Rouhani in 2013 to ask if any of the citizens of his country were able to read the Iranian president’s tweets, he probably did not expect a response. To the surprise of many in the West, Mr Rouhani quickly […]
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.