Will Floating Solar Prove Pivotal in Archipelagic Philippines?
March 6th, 2024 Via EcoBusiness, a look at how floating photovoltaic systems can play a key role in Philippines’ renewable energy quest: Image: www.dantw.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Flickr. In a growing number of [...]
Saudi Arabia Reviving Historic City of Diriyah To Become New Cultural Capital
March 6th, 2024 Via Conde Nest Traveler, a report on how Saudi Arabia is reviving the historic city of Diriyah to become the Kingdom’s new cultural capital thanks to a government investment of $62.2 billion to [...]
The Maldives Is a Tiny Paradise. Why Are China and India Fighting Over It?
March 6th, 2024 Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on the Maldives, an island nation into which Asia’s two giants are crowding with building projects, tossing its newborn democracy to and fro: Between a [...]
 Ethiopian Airlines Positioning Addis Ababa As e-Commerce Logistics Hub for Africa and Beyond
March 6th, 2024 Via the STAT Trade Times, a report on a new Chinese-built e-commerce logistics hub in Ethiopia that Ethiopian Airlines hopes will position Addis Ababa to be the cross-border e-commerce logistics hub [...]
Sri Lanka Awards Energy Deal To India After Rejecting China
March 6th, 2024 Via Energy Daily, a report on a recent Sri Lankan decision to award power contracts to India rather than China: Sri Lanka on Friday awarded the construction of three solar and wind hybrid power [...]
Cote d’Ivoire: West Africa’s Star
March 6th, 2024 Via BNN Bloomberg, a report on Cote d’Ivoire: Ivory Coast’s eurobonds rallied after the nation’s credit score was lifted by Moody’s Investors Service, which cited the resilience of the [...]

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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.