Saudi Arabia: LIV Tour
July 27th, 2022
Courtesy of The Athletic, a detailed report on the strategic and investment goals of Saudi Arabia’s new professional golf tour: Golf’s roots in Saudi Arabia grew from mixing sand and oil. It was the late 1940s when American expat executives working for Saudi Aramco, the kingdom’s budding oil giant, needed somewhere to play. Turns out, […]
Read more »Digital Silk Road: China-GCC Digital Economic Cooperation
June 11th, 2022
Via The Middle East Institute, a look at China-GCC digital economic cooperation: The strategic rivalry between China and the US that has developed over the past decade includes a struggle for control of the global digital economy, particularly the digital infrastructure and information communications technology (ICT) markets. In recent years, China has become a global […]
Read more »Saudi Telecom Buys Pakistan Operator to Expand Global Footprint
February 10th, 2022
Via Bloomberg, a report on Saudi Telecom’s acquisition of a Pakistani tower company. The Middle East’s most profitable telecoms firm, Saudi Telecom Co., signaled a fresh push to expand beyond its core mobile-network business with an investment in a Pakistani tower company. Saudi Telecom, which is controlled by the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, said one […]
Read more »Investing In The Kingdom: A World Away From Fossil Fuels
February 6th, 2022
Via The Frontier Post, a look at investing in Saudi Arabia: A nation traditionally known for its vast reserves of fossil fuels, these days Saudi Arabia, the Middle East and North Africa’s largest economy representing ro-ughly 25 percent of total gross domestic product, has a lot more to offer in-vestors willing to scratch beneath the […]
Read more »Saudi Arabia Efforts To Increase Mining Investment
December 12th, 2021
Via Arab News, an article on Saudi Arabia’s efforts to further activate its mining sector: Saudi Arabia sees increase in mining complexes as the Kingdom launched huge database to channel more investments into the sector that is poised to become the third income source for state funds. The number of mining complexes in Saudi Arabia […]
Read more »Saudi Wealth Fund Weighs Deal to Form Mobile Towers Giant
November 3rd, 2021
Via Bloomberg, a report on a potential cellular towers transaction in Saudi Arabia: The Public Investment Fund is weighing a deal to combine the mobile phone infrastructure of Saudi Telecom Co. and Zain Saudi Arabia in a merger that would form the kingdom’s largest cellular towers company, according to people familiar with the matter. If completed, the deal would create 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.