Moldova’s Economy In Focus
January 3rd, 2024
Via Emerging Europe, a report on Moldova’s economy: Moldova faces a presidential election and a referendum on EU integration in 2024. Victory for the incumbent Maia Sandu and the pro-EU camp will be crucial to supporting the country’s growth. It’s difficult not to view the recent trajectory of Moldova as one of the most impressive […]
Read more »Ethiopia Offers Airline Stake to Somaliland for Sea Access
January 2nd, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report that Ethiopia offered Somaliland a stake in Ethiopian Airlines in return for sea access: Agreement will give Somaliland stake in Ethiopian Airlines Ethiopia’s Hussein says details will be ironed out in a month Ethiopia signed a memorandum of understanding with Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, to gain access to the […]
Read more »Catching Rays: Latin America Purchasing Billons of Dollars of Chinese Solar Panels
January 2nd, 2024
Courtesy of Latinometrics, a look at Latin American’s significant investment in Chinese solar panels: In the last six years, Latin America has imported $26B — or almost twice the GDP of Nicaragua — worth of solar panels from China, the world’s leader in producing and selling them.
Read more »IMF Sees Mauritania Growth Almost Tripling on Gas Exports
January 2nd, 2024
Via Bloomberg, an article on Mauritania’s economic growth: Growth forecast at 5.1% in 2024 and 14.3% in 2025 on gas yield Mauritania gas exports may offer alternative supply for Europe The International Monetary Fund expects Mauritania’s economic growth to almost triple in 2025 fueled by gas exports set to start in the second half of this year. Gross […]
Read more »Argentina Pulls Out of Plans to Join BRICS Bloc
January 1st, 2024
Courtesy of BBC, a report that Argentina’s new President, Javier Milei, has withdrawn the country from its planned entry into the expanding Brics club of nations: Argentina’s new President, Javier Milei, has withdrawn the country from its planned entry into the expanding Brics club of nations: In a letter to the leaders of Brazil, Russia, […]
Read more »Ethiopia Signs Pact to Use Somaliland’s Red Sea Port
January 1st, 2024
Courtesy of Reuters, a report on Ethiopian plans to use Somaliland’s Red Sea port: Landlocked Ethiopia signed an initial agreement with Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland on Monday to use its Red Sea port of Berbera, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office said. The Horn of Africa country currently relies on neighbouring Djibouti for most 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.