Archive for March, 2017

Papua New Guinea: Not Just Lighting Up China, Japan, and Taiwan Anymore

Via Frontera News, a look at Papua New Guinea: Papua New Guinea’s mountain ranges and forest-covered hills have attracted the world’s biggest mineral and resource extraction players to tap its landscape. The minerals and energy extraction sector accounts for a good portion of export earnings of the country. 9 years ago, Exxon Mobil (XOM) built a […]

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How Iran Should Translate Its Geopolitical Advantages into Economic Opportunities

Via Iranian Diplomacy, commentary on how Tehran could increase its geopolitical weight by serving as transit route for energy pipelines, and exporting its gas to emerging markets: By serving as transit route for energy pipelines, and exporting its gas to emerging markets, Tehran could increase its geopolitical weight. . Despite an economy revolving around energy, Iran […]

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Cote d’Ivoire: Africa’s Fastest Growing Economy

Via WorldFolio, a report on Cote d’Ivoire: Almost six years after the end of the Second Ivorian Civil War, Côte d’Ivoire has witnessed a successful and peaceful transition to economic growth, bucking regional trends with 8.5% GDP expansion in 2016 Côte d’Ivoire can comfortably be described as booming. Its near-unstoppable economic growth – 8.5% in […]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.