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Signs of the Middle East’s Financial Colonization of American Capital Markets?
November 15th, 2007

The Financial Times recently reported that Colony Capital, the US private equity group and one of the world’s largest property investors, is considering selling a stake to a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund. While Colony declined to comment on which Middle Eastern sovereign fund it was discussing a deal with, the report noted that: “…Mubadala, […]

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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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