Saudi Investment Interest In India
February 12th, 2024
Via Reuters, an article on Saudi Aramco’s investment interest in India: State oil giant Saudi Aramco is in investment discussions with companies in India, a senior executive said on Wednesday. “Hopefully we will see some announcements soon on investment in Indian companies,” Faisal Faqeer, senior vice-president, liquids to chemicals development, downstream, at Saudi Aramco, told […]
Read more »New Railway From China Boosts Tourism In Laos’ Ancient Capital
February 12th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on the positive impact that a new railway in Laos is having upon tourism: In the scenic ancient capital of Luang Prabang, tucked away in the northern part of Laos, the local tourism industry is seeing a significant upswing thanks to an influx of Chinese tourists following the full opening […]
Read more »National Football League Makes A Pass To Africa
February 11th, 2024
Via Semafor, an interesting look at the growing importance of Africa to the National Football League: Later this evening (U.S. hours) there’ll be an American football match in the midst of some of the most expensive commercials ever aired during the NFL’s Super Bowl extravaganza. Notably, one NFL promo commercial was shot in Accra, Ghana […]
Read more »How an Afghan Drug Kingpin Became Beijing’s Business Partner in Kabul
February 11th, 2024
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a report on Bashir Noorzai – who was once serving a life sentence in the United States – is now the key conduit for growing business ties between China and the Taliban: A drug kingpin whose heroin empire helped fund the Taliban’s long war in Afghanistan—and who was released early from […]
Read more »Mexico Is America’s Answer to China’s Belt and Road
February 11th, 2024
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at how growing economic integration with Latin America could help the United States avoid the fate of an aging China: Every now and then, a narrowly framed news item offers up glimmers of pathways toward the possible resolution of much bigger problems. And so it was this week, with […]
Read more »Mozambique’s $80B Energy Plan to Tap Zambezi’s Power To Launch Green Hydrogen Sector
February 10th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a report on Mozambique’s $80B energy plan to tap the Zambezi River’s power to launch a green hydrogen industry: Country to release hydrogen strategy during the course of 2024 Transition to cleaner energy seen costing $80 billion by 2050 Mozambique is seeking to become one of Africa’s biggest hydropower producers and launch a […]
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.