Indonesia’s Unexpected Success Story
September 20th, 2022 Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on how Indonesia’s economy is prospering despite the sense of crisis elsewhere: In 2013, the US investment bank Morgan Stanley dubbed Indonesia as one [...]
Iran, Qatar Sign World’s Largest Saffron Trade Agreement
September 20th, 2022 Via the Iran Project, a report on a new trade agreement between Iran and Qatar: The largest trade agreement in the field of saffron between Iran and Qatar was signed in the presence of political and [...]
Argentina Formalizes Its BRICS Membership Application
September 20th, 2022 Via MercoPress, a report on Argentina’s BRICS application: Argentina has sent a BRICS’ formal membership application to Chinese authorities this week. Beijing since last June current [...]
Pipeline Politics Prominent at SCO Summit
September 20th, 2022 Via the Asia Times, an article on how China – while it can’t openly support Russia in Ukraine – has lent a hand by vowing to build game-changing Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline: [...]
Why Xi Jinping Chose Central Asia for His First Post-COVID-19 Trip
September 18th, 2022 Via Foreign Policy, a report on why Xi Jinping chose Central Asia for his first post-COVID-19 trip and how the region has long served as a testing ground for Beijing’s economic and foreign-policy [...]
Paraguay
September 18th, 2022 Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on recent US moves that deepen worries over organized crime in Paraguay: Paraguay has long been a haven for smuggling anything from cigarettes to luxury [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.