Archive for November, 2024

Beyond Oil: Google’s Big Bet On Saudi Arabia’s IT Future
November 3rd, 2024

Via the Middle East Institute, a look at Google’s big bet on Saudi Arabia’s AI future: In a landmark move signaling the growing importance of the Middle East in the global tech landscape, Google has entered into a strategic partnership with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund. Google Cloud and PIF announced the agreement, […]

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Diamond-Market Crash Drives Seismic Political Shift in Botswana
November 1st, 2024

Via Bloomberg, a report on a dramatic election result in Botswana: An opposition coalition emerged as the shock winner of Botswana’s parliamentary elections, the first time power has changed hands in the diamond-dependent southern African nation since independence almost six decades ago. Duma Boko, a Harvard-educated human rights lawyer, is set to succeed Mokgweetsi Masisi […]

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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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