China Shifts Latin America Investment to Compete with West
January 22nd, 2024 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 [...]
Bangladesh: Blue Economy Potential
January 22nd, 2024 Via The Daily Star, commentary on Bangladesh’s blue economy potential: In 2012, Bangladesh and Myanmar resolved their maritime boundary disputes at an international tribunal. The International [...]
Congo and China Talking $7 Billion in Finance
January 22nd, 2024 Via Bloomberg, a report on discussions between DRC and China: Money part of renegotiated minerals-for-infrastructure deal Tshisekedi spoke in inaugural address in capital, Kinshasa China and [...]
Coca-Cola Will Invest $1 Billion Annually In India To “Seize the Moment”
January 22nd, 2024 Via Quartz, an article on Coca-Cola’s investment plans in India: “India has already seized the moment,” Hardeep Singh Puri, India’s minister of petroleum and natural Gas and minister of [...]
Daikin Bets on Africa with New Production Sites in Nigeria and Algeria
January 22nd, 2024 Via Nikkei Asia, an article on one Japanese company’s revised strategy to compete with LG and Gree in Africa: Daikin Industries is bolstering its supply chain for home air conditioners in [...]
Saudi Arabia’s Mining Push Is a Challenge for Everyone Else
January 21st, 2024 Via Bloomberg, a look at how the kingdom’s emergence will make it even harder for the US and Europe to secure access to commodities: Saudi Arabia’s plunge into the world of mining has caught the [...]

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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.