UAE, Saudi Arabia Race for Investment in Pakistan
Via Al Monitor, a report on efforts by both Riyadh and Abu Dhabi to develop closer business ties with Pakistan: The UAE and Saudi Arabia have accelerated the pace of investments in Pakistan. If Abu [...]
Dubai: The New Geneva?
Courtesy of Bloomberg, an article on the continued growth of Dubai as a global hedge fund center, where a new breed of digital nomad will raise the hackles of Western governments: First came [...]
Trans-Afghan Railway Project
Via The Frontier Post, a report that Afghanistan has invited Russia and Kazakhstan to participate in constructing the Trans-Afghan railway project: Afghanistan invited Russia and Kazakhstan to [...]
Sri Lanka: Back In Business
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, commentary on Sri Lanka’s economic rebound: Rising interest rates and falling export demand are blunting the post-COVID economic resurgence of many Asian economies. But [...]
Apple’s India dream
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a report on Apple’s plans to move at least 20% of iPhone production to India as it accelerates away from China: Kevin, a senior manager at an iPhone assembly plant in [...]
This Club Isn’t Big Enough for Both India and China
Via Bloomberg, commentary that tensions between the Asian rivals will likely prevent the BRICS bloc from ever posing a coherent challenge to the West: For an acronym coined by an investment bank in a [...]

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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.