India Could Be Apple and Samsung’s Solution to the Future of Phones
December 8th, 2024
Via Wired, a look at how a quarter of all iPhones could be made outside China by 2025, most likely in India—a rapidly growing market with hundreds of millions of potential customers. And the race is on, as Samsung and Chinese brands are betting big there too. The giant companies that make the phones in our […]
Read more »Ethiopia Turns To Bitcoin Miners To Power Growth and Green Energy
December 6th, 2024
Via The Africa Report, an article on how Ethiopia’s state utility has generated $55m in less than a year from power-purchase agreements with bitcoin miners – money it intends to use to develop the grid: Ethiopia Electric Power (EEP), the country’s state-owned utility, has signed-power purchase agreements with 25 bitcoin mining companies, attracted by Ethiopia’s affordable […]
Read more »Citi Says Deals From Gulf Into Africa Are Keeping Bankers Busy
December 6th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a look at the Middle East’s growing interest in Africa: Investors are seeking deals for food security in Kenya African countries must reduce dependence on dollars for debt Rich investors from the Middle East are scouring Africa for deals in agricultural projects, critical minerals and renewable power, according to Citigroup Inc. They’re looking at […]
Read more »Pacific Islands Split On Deep-Sea Mining As First License Application Nears
December 6th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on Nauru’s deep-sea mining project which targets vast seabed mineral reserves: More than 4 kilometers beneath the surface of the north Pacific Ocean lies what the tiny island of Nauru sees as a vast treasure chest — a seabed studded with minerals that could pioneer an economic transformation for remote […]
Read more »How a Country’s Economy Was Siphoned Dry
December 5th, 2024
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how Bangladesh’s currency was battered by what the new head of the central bank says was the looting of the banks under the deposed prime minister: The new governor of Bangladesh’s central bank, Ahsan Mansur, calculates that about $17 billion was siphoned from the country’s financial […]
Read more »Mapping Afghanistan’s Untapped Natural Resources
December 5th, 2024
Via Al Jazeera, a report on Afghanistan’s untapped natural resources: Deep beneath the ground in one of the world’s poorest countries sits at least $1 trillion of untapped mineral resources, according to a report published by Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum [PDF]. The South Asian country of 38 million people is estimated to hold […]
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.