Wireless Operators Dialing Africa and Other Emerging Markets For Growth
As recently reported in the Investors Business Daily, there is a race among various cellular phone operators to grab assets in still-developing markets where wireless penetration is still well below [...]
North Korea’s Future Exports?
As noted in Portfolio, North Korea is increasing its production of exportable goods in advance of what some feel will be a more relaxed trade environment in future months. Last year, North Korea sold [...]
Frontier Markets: E(Merging) into the Mainstream?
As reported in The Wall Street Journal, “frontier markets” are up nearly 100% or more in dollar terms, according to a Standard & Poor’s index.  As the article notes, such [...]
Pyongyang’s Building Boom
A fascinating report in The Economist, which notes that some North Korean residents are becoming investors in the property market—despite the government’s theoretical monopoly on the [...]
Adios Bloqueo? Hola Opportunity…
Via The Economist, an interesting look at Cuba’s future investment prospects, particularly Dubai Ports World’s plans to invest $250m in converting the decrepit port in Mariel, just west [...]
Pipelines: Carrying Oil and A New Balance of Power from Kazakhstan Towards China
Via Stratfor (subscription required), an excellent analysis of how the balance of power between China, Russia and the United States will change now that ground has been broken on the final portion of [...]

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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.