Chabahar Port – India’s Entrance into Geopolitical Influence
Via Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, commentary on Chabahar Port: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On May 5 of this year, India and Iran announced the renewal of their partnership at Chabahar Port in [...]
Record Flow of Investment Into Dominican Republic
Courtesy of Latinometrics, an illustrated look at the investment record of the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic (DR) is the third smallest country in Latin America in terms of land mass, [...]
Will Shock Therapy Revive Nigeria’s Economy – Or Sink It Further?
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Nigeria’s economic predicament: Fatai Oluwa, a patternmaker in Lagos, Nigeria’s teeming commercial capital, has started sleeping in the tailor [...]
DRC: Dawn Of New Economic Era?
Via The Africa Report, an article on the DRC’s economic potential: Despite inflationary pressures and the weak Congolese franc, the DRC’s economy, driven by the extractive sector, shows one [...]
Central Asian Railway To Offer New Link Between China, Europe
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, an article on a new Central Asian rail network would bypass problematic routes through Russia and Red Sea: A rail network that spans across Central Asia is gradually taking [...]
The Luzon Economic Corridor as the United States’ Southeast Asian litmus test
Via East Asia Forum, a report on the Luzon Economic Corridor: At their April 2023 trilateral summit, the presidents of the Philippines, Japan and the United States jointly unveiled the ambitious [...]

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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.