Walmart’s Major Investment in Guatemala Signals Economic Growth
June 18th, 2024 Via The Latin American Post, an article on Walmart’s investment in Guatemala: Walmart has announced plans to invest $700 million in Guatemala over the next five years, a move expected to [...]
Western Multinationals Fleeing Nigeria Are Being Replaced by Asian and Turkish Firms
June 18th, 2024 Via Bloomberg, a look at how western multinationals fleeing Nigeria are being replaced by Asian and Turkish firms: Naira’s depreciation, currency swings deter multinationals Nigerian firms have [...]
Copper and Lithium at the Heart of New African Investment
June 18th, 2024 Via The Africa Report, an article on the role of copper and lithium at the heart of new African investment: Recent data confirms copper and lithium as the mineral success stories of the African [...]
Has Indonesia Hit The Nickel Jackpot?
June 18th, 2024 Courtesy of Fortune, a report pointing out that Indonesia’s $5 billion deal with Tesla is only part of its all-in strategy on nickel mining: In mid-2020, an exasperated Elon Musk appealed for [...]
China-Australia Rare Earth Intrigue
June 17th, 2024 Via a/symmetric, commentary on a Chinese rare earth investor with state ties: The Australian government this week ordered China-linked funds to slash their stakes in a rare earths miner, citing [...]
China, Taiwan, and the Future of Guatemala
June 17th, 2024 Via The Diplomat, an article on the rapid expansion of Beijing’s political and economic influence in countries switching relations from Taiwan to China and how it suggests that a “flip” by [...]

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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.