Trafigura-Led Group to Invest $555 Million in Angola Railway
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a look at plans by a group of investors led by commodity trader Trafigura to invest as much as $555 million in a railway project that will link the Angolan port of Lobito to [...]
Land Ports on China-Russia Border Break Train Trips Record
Via New Silk Road Discovery, a report on growing China-Europe trade via rail: The largest land port on the China-Russia border, Manzhouli in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, and Suifenhe Port, [...]
Latin American Renewables Boom: Not Just A China Story
Courtesy of The Asia Times, a report on Latin America’s renewable industry where Chinese firms back the lion’s share of projects but homegrown industries and ‘frugal innovation’ also are [...]
In Timor-Leste, China Chips Away at Australian Influence
Via The China Project, a report on growing Chinese influence in Timor Leste: In 2017, Timor-Leste signed up to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and hosted Chinese warships in its ports. It led to [...]
Angola: Continued Efforts to Speed Up Economic Diversification
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an interesting look at the recent appointment of an economic reformer in Angola that should bode well for continued economic growth: José de Lima Massano, renowned for [...]
Sour Power: LatAm Countries Among Top Lemon Producers
Courtesy of Latinometrics, an interesting look at the importance of Latin American and other emerging markets in global lemon production: Let’s start this story about lemons and limes by [...]

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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.