How Poland Snagged Intel’s Multi-Billion Dollar Investment
June 25th, 2023
Courtesy of Reuters, a look at how Poland snagged Intel’s multi-billion dollar investment: Poland’s third-largest city Wroclaw beat rivals last week to be home to the next multi-billion dollar Intel (INTC.O) chip factory in Europe, with a two-year campaign promising subsidies, infrastructure, talent and a slice of American life. In the face of an unprecedented […]
Read more »Orlen: Is Poland’s Energy Giant A Tool Of The Government?
June 4th, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Poland’s energy giant, Orlen: Until a few years ago, Daniel Obajtek was the mayor of Pcim, a village whose name gets used in a derogatory way by other Poles to refer to a place in the middle of nowhere. Now, Obajtek stands at the main crossroads of […]
Read more »Poland: Key To Improving Central and Eastern Europe’s Railway Connections
February 8th, 2023
Via Emerging Europe, a report on why Poland is key to improving Central and Eastern Europe’s railway connections: Russia’s war on Ukraine has brought home the importance of investment in Central and Eastern Europe’s railways. A new hub in Poland could be key to making those investments work. In a study first published in 2018, […]
Read more »Mobius: Look at Turkey, Russia, and Poland
July 18th, 2008
As reported by BBJ.hu, Turkish, Russian and Polish stocks are the most attractive in emerging Europe, in the eyes of high-profile emerging markets fund manager Mark Mobius. As the article noted: “…Turkey would be at the top, then Russia and Poland as the most attractive equity emerging markets in the region,†Mobius, executive chairman of […]
Read more »Eastern Europe’s Pipe(line) Dreams?
October 14th, 2007
Noticed via an Energy Daily article, that Azerbaijan, Poland, Lithuania, Georgia and Ukraine recently signed a deal to build a $700 million pipeline to pump Azerbaijani oil to Poland and the Baltic Sea, a pipeline that could provide Eastern (and ultimately Western) Europe with an alternative to Russian oil imports. “…The new pipeline, to be […]
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.