Croatia Anticipates Economic Boost As It Prepares to Adopt Euro
January 1st, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at Croatia anticipated economic boost as it prepares to adopt the euro on January 1: Ivo Boži?, a stallholder selling trinkets at the Christmas market in Croatia’s capital Zagreb, is used to handling multiple currencies and thinks the transition will go without hitches when the country adopts the euro […]
Read more »Venezuela Grows Closer to Mercosur and Argentina
January 1st, 2023
Via MercoPress, an article on Venezuela’s moves to grow closer to Mercosur and Argentina: Venezuela’s return to Mercosur, the resumption of flights between Buenos Aires and Caracas, and an invitation to President Nicolás Maduro to attend the CELAC summit in Buenos Aires next month are some of the signs showing the Argentine government’s rapprochement with Chavismo. […]
Read more »Turkmenistan Builds New $1.5 Billion City, Far Removed From Grinding Poverty
January 1st, 2023
Via Radio Free Europe, a report on Turkmenistan new $1.5 billion city, Arkadag, which is expected to house the country’s elite: Turkmenistan, one of the world’s most repressive and isolated countries, is stricken by widespread poverty. But the authorities are set to unveil a newly built $1.5 billion city, a project that officials claim “reflects the […]
Read more »Nets, Buoys, Salt, Ice. For West African Fishermen, ‘Everything’ Is Going Up.
January 1st, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on the impact of inflation on Sierre Leone’s fishermen: Fishermen in Sierra Leone need large amounts of ice to store their catch on multiday journeys. Like many commodities, it has become pricey. His red soccer jersey and shorts soaked in salty water, Edison Fofana loaded his boat […]
Read more »Somalia’s Federal Government Declares Genel Energy Operations in Somaliland Illegal
December 30th, 2022
Via Oil News Kenya, a report that Somalia’s federal government has declared Genel Energy’s Somaliland operations illegal: Somalia’s Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources has condemned Genel Energy’s activities in the autonomous region of Somaliland terming them as illegal. According to s statement by the ministry warns Genel Energy of the potential risks to its […]
Read more »China’s Growing Stake in World Ports Sharpens Attention on Political Influence
December 30th, 2022
Via Newsweek, an article on China’s growing influence on world trade and global ports: Inching up the Elbe river to the German port of Hamburg in early September, colorful containers stacked on deck like outsized pieces of Lego, the Libra looked like any other massive vessel plying the world’s oceans. Yet she was more than […]
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.