Farc Peace Talks: What Will It Mean For Colombian Investors?
August 30th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on the potential impact that recent Farc peace talks may have on Colombia’s investment profile: Start spreading the news: the Farc guerrillas and the Colombian government agreed to begin peace talks during a meeting in communist-led Cuba, local media reported on Monday. The Andean country has attracted record […]
Read more »Colombia: Different Than Brazil
August 8th, 2012
Via The Financial Times, a look at Colombia: With his deep, chanting voice and contagious laughs he can convince you everything is going according to plan. “We have systematically and purposefully over-performed,” says Juan Carlos Echeverry, Colombia’s finance minister. For him, it is a virtuous circle: confidence, which leads to job creation, which leads to […]
Read more »Colombia / US Free Trade Agreement
May 21st, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at the US Free Trade agreement with Colombia: The long-awaited US Free Trade Agreement is no longer over the horizon for Colombia: as of May 15 it became a fact of life and despite all the optimism coming from the authorities it remains a leap in the dark. […]
Read more »Peru And Colombia: Breaking Free Of The Commodity Super Cycle
May 8th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at the economic development of Peru and Colombia: How would South America’s economies fare if commodities suddenly collapsed? Probably not very well. Indeed, that is why many investors still view the region as a cyclical play on world, and especially Asian, growth. Yet over the past two decade […]
Read more »Colombia: Canada’s New Best Friend?
April 30th, 2012
Courtesy of The Globe and Mail, a report on the improving relationship between Canada and Colombia: It was just after daybreak on a hazy January morning in Bogota and the 300 bankers were bleary. Summoned at dawn to the auditorium at the foot of their 50-storey office tower, most of them had guessed that their […]
Read more »The Colombian ‘Miracle’
April 17th, 2012
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report on Colombia’s economic success: The stereotype of Colombia — violent, chaotic, backward — seemed to be born out in recent days as the army and guerrillas grappled in the countryside and shadowy hit men gunned down a prominent land activist. But that Colombia seems ever more distant these […]
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.