Algeria’s Bid To Joins The BRICS
Via Eurasia Review, a report on Algeria’s interest in joining the BRICS: Algeria is making a bid to join BRICS, the conglomerate of emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South [...]
Why Senegal Is on Global Fashion’s Radar
Via Business of Fashion, an article on how Dakar’s reputation as a regional fashion hub has persuaded brands like Tommy Hilfiger and Hugo Boss to expand to the capital of the West African nation [...]
Iran, Kazakhstan Launch Pilot Sea-Rail Transit Route
Via The Iran Project and Teheran Times, an article on Iran and Kazakhstan’s pilot sea-rail shipment route:  Kazakhstan has reached an agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran for using the [...]
Algeria: Potential To Ease Europe’s Chill This Winter?
Via Global Voices, commentary on Algeria’s potential to compensate for the shortage of Russian gas supplies to the EU: The world had barely stablised from a global pandemic when geopolitical [...]
Indonesia Considers Opec-Style Cartel For Battery Metals
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on how Indonesia – the world’s largest nickel producer – is exploring a potential global governance structure similar to that used by oil [...]
Will Sisi Take Egypt’s Economy Out of the Military’s Hands?
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on how the global crisis has magnified the fragility of Egypt’s state-driven economic model and forced it to take out new multilateral loans: When [...]

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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.