BRICS Without Mortar
October 23rd, 2016
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed look at the fortunes of the BRICS: In 2001, Goldman Sachs analyst Jim O’Neill was looking for a quick and catchy way to refer to countries poised to drive growth in the coming decade. The solution he settled on was BRICs, for Brazil, Russia, India and China. From […]
Read more »Palestine Gets FTSE Frontier Market Status For First Time
September 25th, 2016
Courtesy of Lebanon’s Daily Star, a report on Palestine: The Nablus-based Palestine Exchange began trading as a frontier market for the first time in its two-decade history. The classification by index provider FTSE Russell came into effect this week. While none of the 49 publicly traded companies have been granted the same status, the move […]
Read more »Russia: Making A Big Bet On Building Vegas In Vladivostok
September 2nd, 2016
Via Bloomberg, an interesting look at Russia’s efforts to develop its Far East: What happens in Vladivostok stays in Vladivostok. A phrase that could’ve captured Soviet obsession with secrecy during the Cold War is gaining new meaning for Vladimir Putin, who’s taking a gamble as he aims to turn Russia’s easternmost nuclear garrison into a […]
Read more »Sri Lanka
August 7th, 2016
Via Frontrera News, a report on Sri Lanka: At the tip of the teardrop of India, as Sri Lanka is often described, lies the Thalsevana Holiday Resort. From here you could once walk to India over 30 miles of limestone shoals. Long since washed over by the Palk Strait, its silver shoreline and turquoise waters […]
Read more »Fragile States Index
June 28th, 2016
Via Foreign Policy, the annual Fragile States Index: RANK NAME TOTAL DEMOGR. PRESS. REFUGEES AND IDPS GROUP GRIEVANCE HUMAN FLIGHT UNEVEN DEV. POVERTY & ECON. DECLINE LEGIT. OF THE STATE PUBLIC SERVICES HUMAN RIGHTS SECURITY APPARATUS FACTION. ELITES EXTERNAL INTERVENTION 1 Somalia 114.0 9.7 9.7 9.4 9.5 9.3 9.0 9.5 9.0 9.7 9.7 10.0 9.5 […]
Read more »The Paradox of Paraguay
June 28th, 2016
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed analysis of Paraguay: Forecast Paraguay’s strategic location within 1,500 kilometers (about 930 miles) of Mercosur’s most important markets will continue to drive foreign investment. But the country’s overdependence on Brazilian and Argentine business cycles will limit its industrial growth in the coming years, prompting Paraguay to look for […]
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.