Top Emerging Markets for Investment in 2024
April 6th, 2024 Via Visual Capitalist, an interesting graphical look at the top emerging markets in 2024: Foreign direct investment (FDI) refers to the investment made by individuals, companies, or entities from one [...]
The ‘Conflict Economy’ of Sesame in Ethiopia and Sudan
April 5th, 2024 Via Chatham House, a new report on how the sesame sector has become entangled in local and transnational conflict, and how policymakers need to respond: The sesame trade is no longer just a mainstay [...]
China’s Shrinking BRI Ambitions
April 5th, 2024 Via Geopolitical Futures, a report on how corruption, delays and boondoggles are transforming the Belt and Road Initiative: Last week, the head of China’s Central Commission for Discipline [...]
The Scramble For Influence In Africa
April 5th, 2024 Via Modern Diplomacy, an interview examining the logic behind backing the coups is quite evident and relates to the strategy of Russia to fight against the West and to (re)entrench itself in Africa: [...]
BlackRock Says World-Beating Kenyan Stocks Still Offer Value
April 5th, 2024 Via Bloomberg, a report on Kenya’s stockmarket: Economic policy is providing foundation for stock rally All-share index has rallied 48% in dollar terms this year BlackRock Inc., the world’s [...]
Fast Fashion Goes To Die In Chile’s Fog Desert
April 4th, 2024 Courtesy of National Geographic, a sobering look at how clothing from many of the world’s favorite brands lies in discarded heaps in Chile’s Atacama Desert: The Atacama Desert in northern Chile [...]

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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.