Mozambique: Signs Of Life In The Energy Sector
March 2nd, 2016
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of recent activity in Mozambique’s energy sector: Low oil prices and a weak global economy have thrown a wrench in many countries’ plans to develop and exploit their untouched energy resources. But for Mozambique, those plans may be back on the table. On March 1, an energy consortium signed […]
Read more »Top Marx: Ex Communist States Great For Business
February 29th, 2016
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at the economic growth of former Communist countries: Business leaders and stock market investors tend not, as a rule, to be staunch supporters of hardline communism. But are there beneficial legacies of Marxism that the financial community should, perhaps, be thankful for? It turns out that there may well be, […]
Read more »Africa’s Big Cities Offer Investor Potential
February 18th, 2016
Via the EMIA, a look at Africa’s cities: Africa’s biggest economies have been hammered by the collapse in commodity prices over the past 18 months but there are still investment bright spots to be found. In cities such as Lagos, Nairobi, Accra, Kinshasa and Johannesburg, growth remains robust and investors are prospering in the retail, […]
Read more »Sub-Saharan Africa’s Most And Least Resilient Economies
February 6th, 2016
Via the Harvard Business Review, an interesting look at Africa’s economies: The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Dramatic currency fluctuations, depressed prices on commodities such as oil and copper, and sluggish demand from China and Europe (Africa’s largest trade partners) have put pressure on the region’s economies. While […]
Read more »Georgian Co-Investment Fund
January 22nd, 2016
Courtesy of OZY, an interesting look at the Republic of Georgia: George Bachiashvili always seems to get ahead of himself. He started school at 4, opened his first business (an Internet café) at 13 and finished high school at 15. But with his more recent spate of successes, there’s been a certain stately sugar daddy […]
Read more »Mozambique: IMF Predicts Gigantic Growth Rate
January 16th, 2016
Via AllAfrica, an interesting report on Mozambique’s potential growth: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts that Mozambique’s average growth rate during the first half of the next decade could reach the staggering figure of 24 per cent per annum. This optimism is based on the assumption that gas processing facilities in the Rovuma Basin, in […]
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.