China Eyes Iran As Important Belt And Road Hub
September 9th, 2017
Via Eurasia Review, a look at China’s focus on Iran as an important BRI hub: China’s strategic interest in Iran is intensifying. Chinese manufacturers are looking to establish new operations in Iran, and Tehran is viewed as a vital transport and logistics hub. Iran is focusing in 2017 on expanding its railway network so that […]
Read more »China: Building A New City In The Desert Of Oman
September 9th, 2017
Via Forbes, an interesting look at Chinese plans to build an entirely new $10.7 billion transit-oriented industrial city in Oman: Nobody is going to confuse the dusty fishing village of Duqm for Dubai. But Oman intends to change this by building an entirely new, $10.7 billion transit-oriented industrial city on the desertified coast of the Arabian Sea, […]
Read more »Zimbabwe: The Hottest Stock Market Of 2017 (But Good Luck Getting Out)
September 4th, 2017
Via Investment Frontier, a look at Zimbabwe’s equity market: The Zimbabwe Industrial Index, which is the main index on the exchange that contains every company except for a handful of mining stocks, is up almost 64% on the year in USD terms. The next best stock market, Latvia’s OMX Riga, is up a mere 52% on the […]
Read more »Virugna Energy: Power Plants That May Save a Park, and Aid a Country
September 2nd, 2017
Courtesy of the New York Times, a detailed look at the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park where there is hope that hydroelectric plants will help create jobs and reduce the economic incentive to encroach on habitat needed by gorillas and other wildlife: On the verdant savanna of Virunga National Park, a herd of […]
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.