How Philly Cheesesteaks Became Huge in Lahore, Pakistan
Via Philadephia Magazine, an interesting story of how Philadelphia’s iconic sandwich became a hit in Pakistan’s 13M resident megalopolis of Lahore: Sometime in the fall of 2021, a man [...]
The New Face of Emerging Market Outsourcing: Africa
Via NextBillion, a look at the potential for Africa to become a major player in the global outsourcing industry: The global labor market has undergone two seismic shifts in the last two years: the [...]
19 Countries Express Interest in Joining BRICS
Courtesy of RANE Worldview, a report on growing interest amongst countries to join BRICS: What Happened: South Africa’s ambassador to BRICS (the informal bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China [...]
2022: A Good Year for Petronas
Courtesy of The Diplomat, an article on how Petronas – Malaysia’s state-owned energy giant – benefited from the global spike in oil and gas prices, but its long-term future is less [...]
First “French Postal Express” Freight Train Left Chengdu for Europe
Via New SilkRoad Discovery, a report on the first “French Postal Express” freight train from Chengdu to Europe: On April 26, the first “French Postal Express” China-Europe freight train was [...]
Guyana Greenlights $12B Oil Development Plan
Via Energy Daily, a report on Guyana;s $12B oil development plan: Guyana has approved a more than $12 billion investment proposal by a US and Chinese consortium seeking to develop an offshore oil [...]

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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.