Bahrain: Looking For Buy-In
April 21st, 2024
Via Global Finance, an article on Bahrain’s big plans for development, but its geographic position is both a blessing and a curse: Bahrain was once favored to be the leading financial center of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Dubai has since seized the title, and other jurisdictions in the region—including Abu Dhabi, […]
Read more »Pakistan’s Big Speed Bump On Way To Aggressive EV Goals: An Engineer Shortage
April 20th, 2024
Via Rest of World, a report on Pakistan’s plans to have 30% of all new vehicles sold to be electric by 2030. But there is a glaring lack of expertise in the country. Pakistan produces 25,000 new engineers each year, but companies say there is still an acute lack of skilled workers in the EV […]
Read more »The Rare Earths Mine Becoming a Bellwether For U.S. Minerals Policy
April 20th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on U.S. attempts to challenge China’s global dominance in critical minerals: A site close to Kruger National Park in South Africa is becoming a testing ground for US attempts to fight China’s global dominance in critical minerals. Washington has committed to finance a little-known London-listed miner hoping to […]
Read more »China-Africa Trade Gets Boost From Critical Minerals Needed for EV Battery Production
April 20th, 2024
Via South China Morning Post, a report on China-Africa trade: The figures from China’s General Administration of Customs showed imports from Africa grew 8 per cent year on year to US$29.42 billion in the first quarter. This was boosted by a rise in imports of critical minerals, in particular metals used for electric vehicle (EV) battery […]
Read more »Will Qatar Take A Bite of the Juicy, But Green, Nigerian Apple?
April 20th, 2024
Via The Africa Report, a look at the possibility for Qatar to invest in Nigeria: With Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund at almost $500bn, Nigeria – which is in dire need of foreign direct investment to shore up its currency – is hoping the Gulf nation will throw some money its way. Just weeks after Egypt […]
Read more »To Secure Kazakhstan’s Uranium, Chinese Players Were Compelled to Accommodate Local Partners
April 19th, 2024
Via Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a report on Kazakhstan’s leverage its natural uranium resources to hold the reins in its nuclear fuel–related dealings with China: China has become a global power, but there is too little debate about how this has happened and what it means. Many argue that China exports its developmental model and […]
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.