Archive for the ‘Czech Republic’ Category

The Sleepy Czech Town Helping Europe Compete in the Global Chip War
August 13th, 2024

Via Bloomberg, an article on a $2 billion investment by a US company which promises to create a tech hub in the Czech Republic and help modernize the country’s stagnating economy: The Czech town of Roznov pod Radhostem was best known for its rum-drizzled sweet pies and an open-air museum showing off historical wooden houses. […]

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Emerging Europe: Standout Emerging Market Region This Year
December 3rd, 2023

Courtesy of Schroders, commentary on emerging Europe, a bright spot in a challenging year for emerging markets: It has been a tough year for global emerging markets (EM) given a combination of strong US performance, and weak China performance. Dispersion of returns within the EM universe has been wide, and there have been winners and […]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.

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