Mexico and Brazil: What Lies Ahead for Latin America’s Largest Economies
June 24th, 2023
Courtesy of RANE’s Strator Worldview, analysis of Mexico and Brazil’s economic prospects: While Brazil and Mexico have proven financially resilient in the face of tighter global financial conditions, insufficient structural reforms in both countries and global economic fragmentation will stymy their economic growth in the coming years. However, compared with Brazil, Mexico is poised to […]
Read more »BRICS Face a Reckoning
June 24th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on the BRICS whose potential enlargement would be a sign not of the group’s strength, but of China’s growing influence: In 2001, Goldman Sachs banker Jim O’Neill created the acronym “BRIC” to refer to Brazil, Russia, India, and China—countries he predicted would soon have a significant impact on the […]
Read more »6 Swing States Deciding the Future of Geopolitics
June 7th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at six middle powers of the global South: Last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a rare foray out of Ukraine, spending almost one week in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Hiroshima, Japan. His goal: to win the support of Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia—four major fence-sitters on Russia’s […]
Read more »Petrobras Eyes New Investments In Guyana, Venezuela and Bolivia
June 3rd, 2023
Via Upstream Online, a report that Brazil’s Petrobras is eyeing new investments in Guyana, Venezuela and Bolivia: Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras is assessing the possibility of carrying out fresh investments throughout South America. The signalling of a possible to return to regional investments came as Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva this week […]
Read more »Brick By Brick, BRICS Building A New Bridge For A New World
May 30th, 2023
Via Modern Diplomacy, an article on how the BRICS are now a new bridge to a New World: Measuring BRICS in single decades, in 2001, BRIC started as an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, and China; Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill claimed that by 2050 the four BRIC economies would come to dominate the global […]
Read more »Brazil & Mexico: Transforming Latin American Convenience Stores
May 16th, 2023
Via Emerging Markets Today, an interesting look at how Brazil and Mexico are transforming the usual Latin American convenience store: Convenience stores (or c-stores) in Latin America have been expanding consistently in recent years. Due to shifting consumer preferences, urbanization, and the rising demand for products that can be used on the go, convenience stores […]
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.