Philippines’ Biggest Fast-Food Brand Has Fresh Plans To Challenge Starbucks
August 13th, 2024 Via Forbes, an article on how Billionaire Tony Tan Caktiong’s Jollibee Foods, run by his brother Ernesto Tanmantiong, is spending big to expand its coffee sales around the world: Jollibee [...]
TotalEnergies’ Pakistan Exit Stirs Corporate Exodus Fears
August 13th, 2024 Via Nikkei Asia, a report on TotalEnergies’ Pakistan exit, the latest Western multinational to quit crisis-hit Asian nation France’s TotalEnergies has joined a growing list of Western [...]
Is India on the Way to Number Three?
August 12th, 2024 Via Foreign Policy In Focus, a look at how – with one million people turning 18 each month – India stands on the precipice of a demographic dividend—or disaster: The rise of India has [...]
Korean and Japanese Dramas Spread Across The World Through Turkish Remakes
August 12th, 2024 Via Nikkei Asia, a look at how Asian dramas spread across the world through Turkish remakes: Amid harsh domestic competition, Turkish television producers are hunting the world for original and [...]
The True Cost of China’s Hold On Indonesia’s Nickel
August 12th, 2024 Via the Asia Times, a report on how Indonesia’s EV-fueled nickel industry has morphed into an ‘oligopsony’, where Chinese buyers drive and dominate market dynamics: During the 43rd ASEAN [...]
Ghana Opens Refinery To Become Gold Hub of Africa
August 12th, 2024 Via The Africa Report, a report on Ghana’s new gold refinery and ambitions to become the gold hub of Africa: Ghana has begun operating the Royal Ghana Gold Refinery, the first of its kind in [...]

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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.