Assessing The Economic Potential of Korean Reunification
September 21st, 2009 Via The Wall Street Journal, interesting analysis from a Goldman Sachs study that a united South and North Korea could boast an economy larger than France, Germany and possibly Japan by the middle of [...]
Southeast Asian Oil Firms Scout For Foreign Assets
September 20th, 2009 Via The Peninsula (Qatar), a report that Southeast Asia’s major oil and gas firms are gearing up for an aggressive expansion to overhaul local operations and snap up foreign assets to meet the [...]
Laos: Communism or Capitalism?
September 19th, 2009 Courtesy of The New York Times, an interesting report on Laos.  As the article notes: “…Hammer-and-sickle flags flutter above government offices in downtown Vientiane, and the entrance [...]
Turkmenistan’s Gas
September 19th, 2009 Via The Oil Drum, an in-depth look at Turkmenistan’s natural gas reserves.  As the report notes: “…Turkmenistan holds significantly large quantities of natural gas (they hold the [...]
A Closer Look At The Next Eleven (N11)
September 18th, 2009 While we do not endorse Nicholas Vardy’s Global Guru service, we did find a recent newsletter interesting due to its focus on other emerging economies.  As the report noted: [...]
China’s Thirst For Oil Takes Them To Venezuela
September 18th, 2009 Via Energy Daily, a report that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recently announced a 16-billion-dollar deal with China to drill for oil in the resource-rich Orinoco basin.  As the article notes: [...]

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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.