BRICS Face a Reckoning
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on the BRICS whose potential enlargement would be a sign not of the group’s strength, but of China’s growing influence: In 2001, Goldman Sachs banker Jim [...]
New Data Centers Supercharging Cloud Computing In Smaller African Countries
Courtesy of Semafor, a look at how developers are ramping up the construction of data centers in African nations outside of the continent’s biggest economies such as Uganda, Ethiopia, the [...]
Saudi Arabia’s Great Transformation
Via Project Syndicate, a look at Saudi Arabia’s transformation: An unprecedented experiment in economic and social transformation is playing out in Saudi Arabia, and the outcome could have profound [...]
Bill Gates: On The Road In Nigeria and Niger
Via Gates Notes, commentary from Bill Gates on his recent visit to Niger and Nigeria: Have you ever visited a place you haven’t been in a while, and it somehow manages to feel both new and [...]
Chinese Companies Seek Opportunities in Indonesia’s New Capital
Courtesy of NikkeiAsia, a report on Indonesia’s $31bn new capital development project on Borneo which is seeking Chinese and other investment: Chinese businesses want to be a part of [...]
Time For Central Asia To Create Its Own New Silk Road
Via 19FortyFive, commentary on need for Central Asia to become less reliant on China: Like a bad hangover, the world is quickly moving to look past Beijing’s Belt and Road initiative, which [...]

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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.