Outdoor Concerts? Uncovered Hair? Shimmying in Public? Is This Iran?
December 1st, 2025 Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on how young people across Iran have been leading a dramatic change in social mores in recent months: Thousands of young men and women, hair uncovered and [...]
How China Built a Network of Ports Encircling the Globe
December 1st, 2025 Via Bloomberg, a look at how – with shipping outposts on six continents – Beijing has cemented its trade dominance. That some could be used by its navy has other nations worried. [...]
After Gold and Diamonds, Russia Turns to Africa’s Trove of Fish
November 28th, 2025 Via Bloomberg, a report on how Russia is competing for influence – and money – in diverse, yet depleted waters: The Great African Expedition launched from the Baltic port of Kaliningrad in August [...]
Great Game Intensifies for Myanmar’s Kachin Rare Earths
November 28th, 2025 Via the Asia Times, a look at how US-India cooperation in REE refining could give Kachin rebels controlling mines a strategic alternative to China In the global contest over critical minerals, [...]
Angola’s Biggest Bank Accelerates Regional Expansion With DRC In Focus
November 25th, 2025 Via The Africa Report, a look at Banco Angolano de Investimentos’s plans to accelerate regional expansion: Banco Angolano de Investimentos (BAI) plans to raise the share of loans to the private [...]
How China Is Using Brazil to Reshape Power in the Americas
November 21st, 2025 Via The Diplomat, commentary on how China is entrenching itself in the Brazilian industrial base and consumer economy, with implications for Chinese influence across the continent: China’s [...]

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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.