Djibouti
August 28th, 2014
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting look at Djibouti: Summary A member of the Presidential Guard for Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh opened fire in Djibouti’s international airport on Aug. 25, just minutes after the president’s departure. In the attack he wounded two other guards and the president’s physician in what may have been […]
Read more »Impact Of Venezuela’s Faltering Oil Sector On Central America & The Caribbean
August 27th, 2014
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of the impact that a declining Venezuelan oil industry could have wider effects in Central America and the Caribbean: The Petrocaribe summit in Managua in June 2013. Summary The decline of the Venezuelan oil sector could have wider effects in Central America and the Caribbean. Venezuela supplies crude oil […]
Read more »How Morocco Could Take Over Western Africa
August 14th, 2014
Via Ozy, an interesting look at how Morocco, already an important economic hub on the African continent, is now preparing to go global: The word “Casablanca” evokes ancient souks and bazaars, maybe Rick’s Café Américain — not so much “modern financial hub.” Yet, Morocco’s bustling commercial capital is becoming just that. And now, this […]
Read more »Mozambique: Natural Resources to Provide Catalyst for Further Development
August 13th, 2014
Courtesy of Future Directions International, a detailed look at Mozambique, where large reserves of natural resources in Mozambique are attracting foreign investment, which is expected to boost the already-growing economy: After a decade-long civil war, Mozambique was one of the world’s poorest countries. Now, however, it has one of the world’s fastest growing economies. Gross […]
Read more »ISIS: The World’s Most Frightening Start Up
August 11th, 2014
Via Fortune, an interesting look at the business dealings of the Islamist extremist group ISIS: Every startup needs financing and a market to succeed. So, too, for the Islamist extremist group ISIS—or simply the Islamic State, as it calls itself—whose fighters stormed across the Syrian border into Iraq in June and seized the country’s second-biggest […]
Read more »Majority Of Fastest Growing Economies Will Be Frontier Markets Through 2015
August 9th, 2014
Via FMG Funds, an interesting look at a forecast projecting that, through 2015, 39 of the 45 fastest growing economies will be frontier markets: Today’s young people will be tomorrow’s consumers and producers. When one considers the 20 most populous nations, 9 are considered Frontier Markets, 8 are Emerging Markets and only 3 are Developed Markets.
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.