North Korea’s Model Chicken Farm Opens With Plans for More
Courtesy of 38 North, a look at North Korea’s new model chicken farm: The Kwangchon Chicken Farm is finally up and running, according to North Korean state media. The project is said to have [...]
China Targets Increased Trade with Namibia Beyond US$1B
Via The Brief, a report that China is targeting increased trade with Namibia: China says it is committed to increasing trade with Namibia beyond the US$1 billion (N$18 billion) attained last year, [...]
Solomons Shows It’s Not Easy for China, U.S. to Woo Some Small Nations
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at how China and the U.S. are subject to political vagaries in the Solomon Islands: Chinatown in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, still bears scars two years after [...]
An App Company in Kazakhstan Just Had the Biggest IPO Since Birkenstock in October
Via Quartz, an article on Kaspi.kz, maker of a super app, which recently raised approximately $1 billion in its stock offering: Kaspi.kz, a mobile app company, launched its initial public offering [...]
Côte d’Ivoire Seeks to Strengthen Economic Ties with China
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a report on Côte d’Ivoire desire for more investment from China: On a visit to Abidjan, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi expressed his desire to ‘deepen’ [...]
China Shifts Latin America Investment to Compete with West
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how China has been shifting its Latin America investment away from costly infrastructure to focus on technology, renewables and critical minerals to [...]

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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.