Foreign Investment Trends in Latin America
September 8th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Futures, a report on FDI trends in Latin America, where FDI is in high demand, but most goes to just a few countries: Latin American countries remain trapped in a low-growth environment, hindered by economic volatility, high inequality and ineffective governance. As a result, many governments in the region are turning to foreign […]
Read more »A $2 Trillion Reckoning Looms as Ports Become Pawns in Geopolitics
August 21st, 2024
Via Bloomberg, an article on how ports have become pawns in geopolitics, as these gateways to global trade face costly conversions to retool in new era of rivalry, automation and green energy: For centuries, control of the world’s biggest shipping centers helped expand empires, spark and settle wars, ease poverty and build middle classes while […]
Read more »Chile Gambles on Green Hydrogen In Far South
June 5th, 2024
Via Dialogue Earth, a report on Chile’s green hydrogen gamble in theMagallanes: The Chilean government has set out ambitious plans and targets to develop green hydrogen, and to grow an industry it believes holds much promise for the country. Chile has some of the best natural conditions in the world for the renewable energy needed to produce […]
Read more »Chinese Lithium Giant’s Chile Headache Telling of Growing Global Resource Protectionism
June 5th, 2024
Via Caixin, a report on a Chinese lithium giant’s Chilean headache: The Chilean government’s move to take greater control over the country’s largest lithium reserve in a deal with local giant SQM has put its Chinese shareholder Tianqi Lithium in a bind, and comes as developing nations around the world take a greater interest in […]
Read more »US Tech Giants Building Dozens of Data Centers In Chile, But Locals Are Fighting Back
June 2nd, 2024
Via Rest of World, an article on the multiple Chilean groups which are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation: Over the past 12 years, 16 data centers have been approved in Santiago’s metropolitan area. Most use millions of liters of water annually […]
Read more »Tensions Grow As China Ramps Up Global Mining For Green Tech
May 1st, 2024
Via BBC, a report on growing global tensions as China ramps up its search for green minerals worldwide: Earlier this year, Ai Qing was woken up in the middle of the night by angry chants outside her dormitory in northern Argentina. She peered out of the window to see Argentine workers surrounding the compound and […]
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.