North Korea: “An Opportunity Like None Other”
From The Wall Street Journal’s Deal Journal, an interesting review of Lafarge’s recent acquisition of the Egyptian cement company Orascom (covered in this blog earlier) which emphasizes [...]
A Gazprom State?
As always, highly interesting analysis from Steve Levine at Oil & Glory, this time on Russia’s use of Gazprom as one of its spear points of foreign policy.  As the article notes: [...]
Middle Eastern Markets
Via Bloomberg, an interesting review of the equity markets in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman where – as oil revenues spur construction and increase [...]
Getting a Unified Economy on Track…
As reported by The International Herald Tribune, North and South Korea began regular cargo train service across their heavily armed border Tuesday for the first time in more than a half century. [...]
Astana’s Brinksmanship: MangistauMunayGaz’s Lessons of Petrocracy
As noted in Energy Daily, Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Masimov recently disclosed that he had sanctioned KazMunayGaz’s planned purchase of a major stake of MangistauMunayGaz, a move that would [...]
An Unlikely Alliance: ‘Vulture’ Investors and Anti-Corruption Advocates in Emerging Markets
From The International Herald Tribune, an interesting article on how ‘vulture’ investors may be making an unlikely & unanticipated contribution in the fight against corruption in [...]

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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.