U.S. Tech Firms Are Replacing Workers With Cheaper Talent In Latin America
Via Rest of World, a look at how U.S. tech firms are replacing workers with cheaper talent in Latin America: For Andrea Campos, founder of the Mexico-based mental health app Yana, finding developer [...]
Saudi Aramco Bets On Being The Last Oil Major Standing
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on how – while some western energy companies prepare for a future less reliant on fossil fuels – Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest supplier [...]
China’s First Population Drop In Six Decades Sounds Alarm On Demographic Crisis
As reported by Reuters, official figures show China’s population shrank by 850,000 people in 2022 — the first such decline since 1961. The tipping point comes a decade earlier than the government [...]
Will There Be More China-Arab Cooperation Under BRI?
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at the future prospects of China-Arab cooperation under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative: If we are going to analyses the main questions, related to: will [...]
China’s Latin American Power Play
Via Foreign Affairs, an article on China’s rising influence in Latin America and ways the West can counter: China’s footprint in Latin America is large and growing. It is the region’s [...]
Library Thrives In Pakistan’s ‘Wild West’ Gun Market Town
Via Frontier Post, an interesting report on a thriving library in the midst of Pakistan’s ‘wild west’: When the din of Pakistan’s most notorious weapons market becomes [...]

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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.