The Beijing-Baghdad Oil Axis
October 11th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting look at the growing petroleum partnership between Iraq and China: Chinese oil companies have invested billions of dollars into Africa over the past decade, developing relationships with oil producing countries such as Angola, Congo and South Sudan. Now China is quietly developing another strong oil axis: Beijing-Baghdad. Fatih […]
Read more »BRICS: Really The Future Of The Global Economy?
October 10th, 2012
Via Foreign Policy, a report on the BRICS: “The BRICS Are in a Class by Themselves.” Yes and no. There is no question that the BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the group’s newest member, South Africa — are big. They matter. In terms of population, landmass, and economic size, their pure dimensions are […]
Read more »The $10 Trillion Dollar Prize: Captivating The New Affluent In China And India
October 1st, 2012
Via The Financial Times, an interesting book review looking at a recent publication on It is no secret that Asia’s two emerging superpowers are giving birth to a vast new middle class. But just what is meant by that term is rather less clear. Take India, a nation of about 1.2bn people. Are its middle […]
Read more »Golden Age for Africa? The Quest For Africa’s Riches
September 28th, 2012
Via The Globe and Mail, a look at Africa: In the dusty streets of the tiny village of Romaro, a building boom is under way. Crumbling mud shacks are being replaced by new tin-roofed houses. Almost overnight, the village’s ancient way of life has vanished. Most of its farmland has been swallowed up by a […]
Read more »China: Looking At Afghan Gold?
September 28th, 2012
Via The Diplomat, a report on China’s interest in Afghan mining opportunities: Not everyone is leaving Afghanistan. Zhou Yongkang, China’s security supremo, became the first member of the country’s top leadership to visit Kabul since the 1960s recently, jetting in for several hours for talks with President Hamid Karzai. Perhaps Zhou, China’s crackdown connoisseur, had […]
Read more »Facebook’s Global Plan: Find The Next Billion Users
September 27th, 2012
Courtesy of Quartz, an article on Facebook’s global strategies: Facebook’s 242 million users in Asia represent just 6% of the continent’s population. Can you say growth opportunity? This is the story of Facebook’s rapidly unfolding plan to take over the world, or at least the world wide web. It’s a tale that’s been hiding 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.