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Latin America: The Next Asia?

Courtesy of The Financial Times, commentary that Latin America is going to outperform all other emerging markets over the next 10 years, including Asia.  As the article notes: “…It seems like a crazy suggestion: Brazil may be hot, and Mexico slowly warming up, but how on earth can the likes of Argentina or Venezuela compare […]

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Africa’s Stock Is Rising

Courtesy of The Financial Times, a detailed look at Africa’s recent growth and prospects for future success.  As the article notes: “…In the half-century since colonial administrators began packing their pith helmets and heading home, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced a string of false dawns. Autocracies waxed and waned, accompanied by varying degrees of socialism, nationalism […]

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China Invests In Bangladesh

Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at the increasingly close relationship between China and Bangladesh: “…At Hambantota, a remote fishing town on Sri Lanka’s south coast, Chinese engineers are digging a channel through the region’s pristine beaches, connecting the Indian Ocean with a vast inland pit, whose soaring concrete walls dwarf the earth-moving equipment […]

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BRICs Meet SARCs

Courtesy of Forbes, an interesting report on the continuing emergence of a global Internet power bloc along the lines of the BRICs: “…Today China’s largest Internet firm Tencent announced a $300m investment into Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies Limited (DST). DST is the most powerful Russian Internet firm, and has investments across Eastern Europe as well […]

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Building BRICs Of A New World Order?

Courtesy of TIME, an interesting look at the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China and how the world may change if their growth continues apace.  As the article notes: “…Whenever the BRICs have a powwow, as they did during their second summit this week in Brasilia, I can’t help thinking about the future […]

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Rwanda Inc.

Via Global Post, an interesting look at Rwanda’s economic growth of late: “…Young, business-savvy and geeky as Silicon Valley’s finest, Viateur Mugenzi is a one-man incarnation of the new-look Rwanda. A telecom administrator by day, the boyish 32-year-old is a partner in three start-up companies by night, including a venture that uses open-source technology to […]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.