Brazil’s EV Market Shifts Up A Gear As Chinese Firms Set Up Shop
Via Dialogo Chino, an article on the billions in foreign investment which is boosting a growing electric vehicle market in Brazil, one of Latin America’s main car-making hubs: Record sales of [...]
Acumen, Climate Fund Have $250 Million Solar Plan for Africa’s Poorest Nations
Via Bloomberg, an article on the Hardest-To-Reach Initiative: Hardest-to-Reach Initiative focuses on 16 African nations Countries targeted include Congo, Somalia and Sierra Leone The world’s [...]
Kazakhstan Turns Toward China Amid Cooling Relations With Russia
Via the Jamestown Foundation, a report on Kazakhstan’s turn towards China amid cooling relations with Russia: In late October, Kazakhstan halted the export of 106 products to Russia, a move [...]
West Faces Long Struggle To Loosen China’s Grip on Africa’s Critical Minerals
Courtesy of The Africa Report, commentary on the long struggle faced by the West to loosen China’s grip on Africa’s critical minerals: China is in pole position to negotiate minerals access with [...]
Chinese Nickel Miners in Indonesia Face Threat from Falling Prices
Via Caixin Global, a report on how Chinese nickel miners in Indonesia face a threat from falling prices: A nickel rush in Indonesia by Chinese mining companies over the last decade may come to a halt [...]
What Africa Can Learn From Morocco’s Thriving Economic Zones
Via The Africa Report, a look at how Africa’s new free trade agreement can catalyse industrialisation in special economic zones, says the head of Morocco’s Tanger Med Zone, but only if they get [...]

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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.