Investors Hit The Road As India’s Startup Story Moves Beyond Metros
Via DealStreet Asia, an article on how funding in India’s third tier cities is showing steady increase amid overall slowdown: A growing tribe of private equity and venture capital investors is [...]
West Challenges China’s Critical Minerals Hold on Africa
Via Reuters, a report on the West’s efforts to challenge China’s critical minerals hold on Africa: China’s CMOC Group overtook Glencore to become the world’s largest producer [...]
India Can Become Major Global Hub for Renewable Energy
Via Nikkei Asia, a bullish report on India’s impact on the global renewable energy sector: India can “greatly accelerate” the global transition to cleaner power if its request to [...]
Green Energy, Digital Infrastructure Are Hot Tickets for Chinese Firms Targeting Middle East
Via Caixin Global, an article on the growing presence of Chinese green energy and digital infrastructure firms in the Middle East: A veteran investor and co-founder of a global asset allocation firm [...]
Nigeria’s Currency Crisis Is Fueling a Corporate Exodus
Courtesy of Bloomberg, an article on how Nigeria’s free-falling currency and rampant inflation are slashing the profits of global conglomerates: As Nigeria’s vice president cut the ribbon [...]
Niger, Morocco: Prime Ministers Meet Amid Plans To Diversify Port Access
Courtesy of Rane’s Worldview (subscription required), a report that Niger and Morocco are working to advance plans to help western Sahelian countries diversity their maritime access through [...]

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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.