Oil and Gas Majors Step Up Efforts To Diversify Into Lithium
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how oil and gas corporations are moving into lithium extraction: Oil and gas majors are stepping up efforts to break into lithium to diversify beyond fossil [...]
Women Entrepreneurs In Emerging Markets: A Trillion Dollar Opportunity
Via World Economic Forum, a report on the immense economic potential of women entrepreneurs in emerging markets: > Globally, women could add as much as $28 trillion, or 26% of global GDP, by 2025. > [...]
The Man Who Wants To Build Morocco’s First Armored Vehicle
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a report on an Moroccan entrepreneur, Youssef Mandour, chairman and founder of the FAR Group: Youssef Mandour, a Casablanca-born US Army veteran, is the chairman and [...]
How Miners Hunt For Rare Gems In Afghanistan By Dodging The Taliban
Courtesy of Insider News, a video report on how miners in Afghanistan use dangerous methods to hunt for jewels many of them couldn’t afford to buy. Most gems leave the country illegally and Afghan [...]
Tehran and Kabul Reach Major Trade Agreements
Via Geopolitics in South Asia and MENA, a report on new trade agreements between Iran and Afghanistan: During the visit of the head of the Iranian Trade Promotion Organization (TPO)’s Afghan desk [...]
Mexico and Brazil: What Lies Ahead for Latin America’s Largest Economies
Courtesy of RANE’s Strator Worldview, analysis of Mexico and Brazil’s economic prospects: While Brazil and Mexico have proven financially resilient in the face of tighter global financial [...]

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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.