Is India’s Adani Group Too Big To Fail?
December 18th, 2022
Via Quartz, a look at how Adani’s rise over the past few years has been meteoric. But can India afford his failure? The Indian companies belonging to Gautam Adani, the world’s third-richest man, have soared in value at breakneck pace. Some of Adani’s listed companies—such as Adani Green Energy, Adani Enterprises, and Adani Transmission—have seen their […]
Read more »Why The US Is Backing The Africa Continental Free Trade Area
December 17th, 2022
Via Quartz, a look at how ore investments in Africa could see the Biden administration reduce China and the EU’s dominance in trade with Africa: The US is optimistic that if the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is implemented the right way, it could help the continent solve most of its industrial challenges and attract more foreign […]
Read more »Is Guyana Getting a Fair Cut of Its Oil Bonanza?
December 17th, 2022
Via Foreign Policy, commentary that Guyana’s government is set to tweak its baseline contract with fuel companies after criticism it got fleeced: Most South American economies have grown sluggishly this year. But Guyana has been an outlier—both in the region and the world at large. The small country is on track to boast the globe’s […]
Read more »Why India Can’t Replace China
December 16th, 2022
Via Foreign Affairs, commentary on some of the barriers to India’s next economic boom: With China’s status as the “workshop of the world” marred by rising political risks, slowing growth, and increasingly untenable “zero COVID” policies, no country seems more poised to benefit than India. In May, The Economist ran a cover story about India, asking whether […]
Read more »Prosper Africa: US Investors In African Countries
December 16th, 2022
To help support US-Africa Investment, Prosper Africa launched the US-Africa Investment map, an interactive visual tool bringing together curated US corporate and financial investments across the continent: ,
Read more »Sudan Strikes Deal With UAE Firms For $6B Port
December 15th, 2022
Courtesy of APNews, an article on Sudan’s plans to build a new port on its Red Sea coast: Sudan’s military government signed a $6 billion preliminary agreement with two firms from the United Arab Emirates Tuesday to construct a new port on the Red Sea coast, Sudanese state media said. According to the SUNA news […]
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.