Saudi Aramco Acquires $3.4B Stake in a China Petrochemical Firm
Via Al Monitor, a report that the world’s biggest oil exporter is making further inroads in China, Saudi Arabia’s top customer for crude: Saudi Aramco has acquired a 10% stake in China’s [...]
India to Help Develop a Port and Economic Hub in Sri Lanka
Via The Frontier Post, an article on India’s plans to help develop a port and economic hub in Sri Lanka: India and Sri Lanka said on Friday that they had agreed to improve economic ties by [...]
BRICS Expansion Plan Draws Interest From More Than 40 Nations
Courtesy of Bloomberg, an article on the BRICS expansion plan, which has drawn interest from more than 40 nations: Twenty-two countries that have formally applied to join bloc Putin skipping summit [...]
How Saudi Arabia is Buying the World
Via The New Statesman, a look at how how Saudi Arabia’s model of capitalism without democracy thrives and the prospect of a Saudi century has consequences for us all: Illustration by Spooky [...]
The Only Thing Keeping South Africa From Chaos Is Its Private Sector
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on how corruption, government incompetence and policy paralysis risk turning Africa’s most-industrialized nation into a failing state, leaving the ANC struggling to [...]
Saudi Arabia to Give Tunisia $500M Amid Economic Crisis
Via Al Monitor, an article on Tunisia’s economic lifeline from Saudi Arabia as it continues to seek help from the kingdom as well as the EU and the IMF as it battles debt and inflation: Saudi [...]

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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.