BRICS Bloc Grows Heft With Saudi Arabia and Other Mideast Powers
August 24th, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on BRICS expansion: Major emerging market nations invited top oil exporter Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Argentina, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates to join their bloc in a push to expand its global influence. Leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa agreed to enlarge their BRICS group from Jan. 1 at a summit held in Johannesburg, […]
Read more »The New Commodity Superpowers
August 8th, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at nations such as the DRC, Argentina, Chile, and Indonesia, – the countries that produce the metals central to the energy transition who want to rewrite the rules of mineral extraction: The red-brown landscape of Tenke-Fungurume, one of the world’s largest copper and cobalt mines in the Democratic […]
Read more »What Could a New Era Mean for Latin America?
July 25th, 2023
Courtesy of McKinsey, a report on how current global challenges could usher in a new era for Latin American economies: At a glance The current global upheaval may feel unprecedented, but there have been similar periods of acute disruption in recent history, each of which gave birth to a new era with its own distinctive […]
Read more »Sour Power: LatAm Countries Among Top Lemon Producers
July 6th, 2023
Courtesy of Latinometrics, an interesting look at the importance of Latin American and other emerging markets in global lemon production: Let’s start this story about lemons and limes by clarifying some confusion: Generally speaking, lemons are ‘limas,’ and limes are ‘limones’ in Spanish. As native Spanish speakers, this has always been a significant source of […]
Read more »Chile’s Lithium Industry Holds its Breath as Boric Pursues Nationalization
May 19th, 2023
Courtesy of Stratfor’s Worldview, a look at the impact of Chile’s decision to nationalize its lithium industry: Increased state control of Chile’s lithium sector may lead to a mechanism for new investment, but higher associated costs could limit investor interest. On April 20, Chilean President Gabriel Boric announced that he would seek to “nationalize the […]
Read more »Chile’s Move To Control Lithium Alarms Industry
May 4th, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on how Chile’s move to control lithium is alarming industry players, allowing Australia, Argentina and African countries to benefit as Santiago moves ‘urgently’ to take stake in key projects: Chile has moved to take state control of key lithium projects in an attempt to develop its vast resources […]
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.