AI Models Estimate State of Economy in North Korea
November 24th, 2023 Via Energy Daily, a report on how AI models and satellite imagery can be used to estimate the state of economy in hard-to-visit, low-resource countries such as North Korea: An international team of [...]
A Chinese Map App Wants To Be a Super App for Everything Outdoors
November 24th, 2023 Via MIT Technology Review, a look at how China’s Amap is not satisfied with just giving you directions, but rather wants to offer you everything from real estate listings to car rentals: [...]
Angola Says It Plans to Remain in OPEC as Quota Spat Emerges
November 24th, 2023 Via Bloomberg, a report on Angola’s plans to remain in OPEC as quota spat emerges: Nigeria recently surpassed quota limit, Angola remains below Meeting of coalition delayed to Nov. 30 after [...]
Unrest in the Middle East Is Bad for Both CPEC and IMEC
November 24th, 2023 Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at what – as regional unrest deepen – lies ahead for these dueling connectivity projects? The flare-up of the Israel-Palestine conflict following the [...]
Mali Signs Agreement With Russia To Build Gold Refinery
November 23rd, 2023 Via Reuters, a report on a new Russian agreement to invest in Mali: Mali’s military government said it has signed an agreement with Russia to build a gold refinery in the capital Bamako, one of [...]
Tata Minibuses: Key To Success in Dakar
November 23rd, 2023 Via The Africa Report, a look at how a network of minibuses carries more than a million passengers a day in Dakar: Created in the early 2000s, the AFTU network of communal minibuses now carries more [...]

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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.