China Offers Taliban Tariff-Free Trade, Inches Closer To Regime
October 25th, 2024 Via Nikkei Asia, an article on the Taliban efforts to find foreign investors willing to help it diversify its economy and profit from its mineral wealth, but Afghanistan exported no commodities to [...]
Djibouti’s Alleged Ties to Iranian Proxies Stir Global Concerns Amid Red Sea Crisis
October 25th, 2024 Via Modern Diplomacy, a report on Djibouti’s support for Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and other Iranian-backed actors: Djibouti, a small but strategically significant country located at the [...]
BRICS Runs Into a Wall
October 25th, 2024 Via Geopolitical Futures, commentary on the latest BRICS summit in Russia which offered familiar refrains, but few concrete proposals: For leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, the annual [...]
Vietnam’s VinFast Calls Philippines ‘Important’ For Its Global Expansion
October 25th, 2024 Via Nikkei Asia, a report on VinFast’s interest in the Philippines: The Philippines and its relatively nascent electric vehicle market offer VinFast an important growth opportunity, the head of [...]
Pakistan Struggles To Secure Gulf Investments Amid Economic Crises
October 25th, 2024 Via East Asia Forum, an article on Pakistan’s struggle to secure Gulf investments amid economic crises: In Brief Pakistan is seeking investments from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to [...]
Secret Negotiations Around Afghanistan’s Oil
October 24th, 2024 Via YouTube, an interesting documentary on the legacy of secret negotiations between Afghanistan and America to build a pipeline through [...]

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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.