Croatia Anticipates Economic Boost As It Prepares to Adopt Euro
January 1st, 2023 Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at Croatia anticipated economic boost as it prepares to adopt the euro on January 1: Ivo Boži?, a stallholder selling trinkets at the Christmas market in [...]
Venezuela Grows Closer to Mercosur and Argentina
January 1st, 2023 Via MercoPress, an article on Venezuela’s moves to grow closer to Mercosur and Argentina: Venezuela’s return to Mercosur, the resumption of flights between Buenos Aires and Caracas, and [...]
Turkmenistan Builds New $1.5 Billion City, Far Removed From Grinding Poverty
January 1st, 2023 Via Radio Free Europe, a report on Turkmenistan new $1.5 billion city, Arkadag, which is expected to house the country’s elite: Turkmenistan, one of the world’s most repressive and isolated [...]
Nets, Buoys, Salt, Ice. For West African Fishermen, ‘Everything’ Is Going Up.
January 1st, 2023 Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on the impact of inflation on Sierre Leone’s fishermen: Fishermen in Sierra Leone need large amounts of ice to store their catch on multiday journeys. [...]
Somalia’s Federal Government Declares Genel Energy Operations in Somaliland Illegal
December 30th, 2022 Via Oil News Kenya, a report that Somalia’s federal government has declared Genel Energy’s Somaliland operations illegal: Somalia’s Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources has [...]
China’s Growing Stake in World Ports Sharpens Attention on Political Influence
December 30th, 2022 Via Newsweek, an article on China’s growing influence on world trade and global ports: Inching up the Elbe river to the German port of Hamburg in early September, colorful containers stacked on [...]

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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.