City of Silk Rail Network to Link Middle East & China
Via Inhabitat, news that Camassive urban masterplan has been approved for Madinat al-Hareer, or City of Silk, in Subiya, Kuwait. With a budget of £66 billion ($132bn USD), the project is an [...]
Venezuela: Business & The State
As reported in The Wall Street Journal, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s decision to take over a unit of Spanish giant Banco Santander SA carries a new set of risks, touching on local [...]
Pakistan: Risk or Opportunity?
As recently reported by The Wall Street Journal, the stock market in Pakistan continues to see year-long lows, dealing a sharp rebuke to a new government struggling to gain the confidence of foreign [...]
Russia’s Far Eastern Frontier: Energy as a Political Tool
As recently reported in The Japan Focus, Russia’s Far Eastern frontier is now turning into the place where energy export becomes a political tool in shaping the country’s relations with [...]
Venezuelan-Russian Energy Axis: Global Power Politics
As recently discussed by The Latin Business Chronicle, the emerging Venezuelan-Russian energy axis is a 21st-century throwback to the Cold War Soviet-Cuban alliance and may be emblematic of [...]
Race to the Frontier
From The Financial Times, an interesting article noting that, while investor appetite for emerging markets is dwindling as worries about rising inflation and falling equity markets grow – [...]

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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.