WhatsApp Grocery Shopping In Brazil
Via Rest of World, an interesting look at WhatsApp grocery shopping, which is already huge in Brazil: Whenever Ana Lúcia Almeida Gazzola wants to impress her guests, she cooks shrimp with butter, [...]
Indonesia Wants To Be A Manufacturing Super Power
Via Clean Technica, a report on Indonesia’s ambitions to be more than a supplier of raw materials to the world – it wants the world to build products within its borders: The United [...]
LatAm’s Biggest Start Ups
Courtesy of Latinometrics, an updated look at Latin America’s biggest start ups:   LatAm’s Biggest Startups One of our first charts was about Latin America’s unicorns (startups [...]
Qatar Wealth Fund Considers $3B Pakistan Investment
Via Bloomberg, a report that the Qatar Wealth Fund is considering $3B Pakistan investment, mostly in airports and hospitality: Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund plans to invest $3 billion in key [...]
China Cements Influence In Iraq Through Oil, Infrastructure Deals
Via Oil and Gas Daily, a look at China’s growing influence in Iraq: China has gained a major foothold in oil-rich Iraq, shaking up Western domination in fields from energy to construction, even [...]
Iran: Even A Revived Nuclear Deal Would Unlikely Offer Widespread Economic Relief
Via STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of how Iran’s weak economy will continue to deter foreign investment, even in the unlikely event the JCPOA is restored: An agreement to restore [...]

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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.