Archive for 2023

Niger, China Discuss Uranium Mine and Other Deals

Courtesy of VOA News, a report on growing Chinese interest in Niger: The West African nation of Niger and China have been discussing deals that include an industrial park, an oil pipeline and a uranium mine. The Chinese ambassador to Niger, Jiang Feng, said China would build an industrial park that would impact industries including […]

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Vietnam Business Opportunities Aplenty in Ascendant SEAsia: HSBC Exec

Via The Investor.VN, a look at Vietnam’s investment potential from one senior banker’s perspective: Southeast Asia remains the world’s growth engine, and as an important economy in the region, Vietnam offers a lot of business opportunities in key areas, said HSBC Asia-Pacific’s Commercial Banking head for South and Southeast Asia, Amanda Murphy. What is the […]

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Chinese Mining Company To Invest $350M In Afghanistan

Via The Frontier Post, a report on a planned Chinese investment in Afghanistan: Fan China Afghan Mining Processing and Trading Company (FAMPTC) stated on Thursday that it would spend $350 million in Afghanistan over the next months in several industries, including electricity generation, the building of a cement factory, and healthcare. In a meeting with […]

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Trafigura-Led Group to Invest $555 Million in Angola Railway

Courtesy of Bloomberg, a look at plans by a group of investors led by commodity trader Trafigura to invest as much as $555 million in a railway project that will link the Angolan port of Lobito to neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. The consortium, known as Lobito Atlantic Railways, will spend $455 million on the […]

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Land Ports on China-Russia Border Break Train Trips Record

Via New Silk Road Discovery, a report on growing China-Europe trade via rail: The largest land port on the China-Russia border, Manzhouli in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, and Suifenhe Port, Heilongjiang province’s largest land port, recorded 2,754 trips of inbound and outbound China-Europe freight trains in the first half of this year, according to […]

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Latin American Renewables Boom: Not Just A China Story

Courtesy of The Asia Times, a report on Latin America’s renewable industry where Chinese firms back the lion’s share of projects but homegrown industries and ‘frugal innovation’ also are key: The story of renewable energy’s rapid rise in Latin America often focuses on Chinese influence, and for good reason. China’s government, banks and companies have […]

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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.