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 »A BRIC Wall?
September 27th, 2012
Via Mark Mobius’ blog, an interesting commentary on the BRIC’s economic growth and continued prospects: A global pattern of easing economic growth in the first half of 2012 has impacted the “BRIC” nations – Brazil, Russia, India and China. However, I don’t think the BRIC economies have hit a brick wall. While some market participants […]
Read more »Laos: Country Snapshot
September 21st, 2012
Via Emerging Frontiers blog, a detailed look at Laos: Overview Laos has 6,586,266 people dispersed unevenly across a country that covers 236,800 sq km. The country borders Myanmar and China in the north, Vietnam to the west, Thailand on its eastern border, and Cambodia in the south. Following a period of conflict and civil war, […]
Read more »Frontier Markets: Extreme Investing?
September 21st, 2012
Courtesy of BusinessWeek, a report on frontier markets: Freetown, Sierra Leone As far as investing goes, the economic battlefronts of Europe, China, and the U.S. seem like the only concern. Meanwhile, as if it could not care less about all that, Sierra Leone, the West African nation still shellshocked from years of truly horrific bloodshed, […]
Read more »Nationalized YPF Interests Russian Investor
September 10th, 2012
Via Energy Daily, an interesting report on Gazprom’s interest in YPF: Argentina’s nationalized YPF energy company is pursuing talks with Russia’s Gazprom to forge a partnership and secure needed cash investment in the company. Argentina nationalized YPF in May, alleging its principal shareholder Repsol of Spain wasn’t reinvesting enough earnings in the company, affecting its […]
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.