Pakistan: How Energy Traders Left A Country In The Cold
December 20th, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a look at how commodity traders switched off Pakistan’s electricity: Toward the end of 2021, in an office block above the luxury boutiques of Geneva’s Rue du Rhône, Ksenia Alleyne called her team into a meeting. Alleyne is the co-head of liquefied natural gas trading at Gunvor Group Ltd.—a Swiss-based commodities firm with customers around […]
Read more »Pakistan Leads Asia’s Frontier Markets in 2023
December 17th, 2023
Via PT Profit, a report on Pakistan’s KSE-100 Index which surged more than 60% in 2023, making it the best performer among the Asian frontier markets, which include Bangladesh, Laos, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam: Pakistan’s stock market has emerged as one of the best performers in Asia this year, as improving macroeconomic conditions and a […]
Read more »Why BRICS Matters For Pakistan
December 16th, 2023
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on why the BRICS matter for Pakistan: “BRICS can act as a catalyst for the operationalization of the Pakistan foreign policy objective aimed at prioritizing economic security over the strategic security”. In the chaotic multipolar world order, the emerging economies are paving their way towards prosperity and development, trying to bypass great power […]
Read more »Pakistan’s ‘Pink Riders’ Hit The Road In Battle Against Sexism
December 16th, 2023
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on an interesting motorcycle training institute in Pakistan, fostering a group number of women riding motorcycles in the South Asian nation: Madiha Khan’s life was upended three years ago when an illness left her husband partially paralyzed. The 33-year-old from a middle-class Karachi neighborhood suddenly found herself struggling to look […]
Read more »China Loaned Pakistan $21B More Than Reported
November 9th, 2023
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a report on China’s loans to Pakistan, the nation which has the world’s largest Chinese-funded energy portfolio Two decades of Chinese lending to Pakistan totaled about $21 billion more than previously thought, a study revealed this week, while also showing that the cash-strapped South Asian country has the biggest China-funded energy […]
Read more »China In limbo Over Importing Middle East Oil Overland Through Pakistan
November 4th, 2023
Via The China Project, a look at how ongoing violence in Balochistan and Xi Jinping’s shifting Belt and Road priorities may end Pakistan and China’s pipeline dreams: If China wants to move Middle Eastern oil and gas overland to Xinjiang, it must dredge the port at Gwadar, build a refinery there, then construct a high-altitude […]
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.