Cuba Announces Surprise Reversal of US Dollar Deposit Ban
Via France24, a report on Cuba’s surprise lifting of its ban on US dollar deposits in banks, reversing a policy which had been in place since June 2021: Cuba’s government on Monday [...]
Experts Pour Cold Water On Tunisia BRICS ‘Bid’
Via Al Monitor, a report on Tunisia’s potential bid to join the BRICS block, Analysts are skeptical about an announcement made by supporters of Tunisia’s populist President Kais Saied [...]
Is Senegal’s Akon City An Impossible Dream or Elaborate Fraud?
Via The Africa Report, first part of a detailed look at Senegal’s Akon City which many consider an impossible dream and potential pyramid scheme: In August 2020, Senegalese-American singer Akon [...]
How Indonesia Used Chinese Industrial Investments to Turn Nickel into the New Gold
Via The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an examination of how China’s Belt and Road Initiative helped build an industrial complex in Indonesia—but contestations at the local and [...]
China Eyes Russia’s Far East Resources
Via The Asia Times, an article on China’s interest in Russia’s Far East: China and Russia have agreed to strengthen economic ties after top leaders held high-profile meetings in Moscow, [...]
Egypt-China Relations Strengthen With $2 Billion Factory Deal
Via Al Monitor, a report on China’s growing investment in Egypt: Egypt’s Suez Canal announced a deal on Thursday with a Chinese company to build a steel and iron factory. The agreement is one [...]

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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.