China Funds Solomon Islands’ Telecoms Deal After Signing Security Deal
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a report on China’s investment into the Solomon Islands’ telecoms sector: China’s Huawei has signed a deal to build 161 telecoms towers across the Solomon [...]
UAE Firm To Invest Billions In Emerging Markets
Via Bloomberg, a report on a UAE firm’s aggressive investment plans for select emerging markets: International Holding Co. plans to invest billions of dollars in markets including Indonesia, [...]
Egypt: Sisi’s House of Cards?
Via Foreign Policy, commentary on the Egyptian President’s spending on projects of questionable value while his people are suffering: On Sunday, a horrific fire at a Coptic church in greater [...]
Cuba: Allowing Foreign Investment In Wholesale and Retail Trade For First Time In 60 Years
Via the BBC, a report that Cuba will allow foreign investment into its wholesale and retail trade to tackle its goods shortage: Cuba says it will allow foreign investors into its wholesale and [...]
Africa’s Cold Rush and the Promise of Refrigeration
Courtesy of The New Yorker, an interesting look at the growth potential refrigeration offers for the developing work, noting that – in Rwanda – it could spark an economic transformation: [...]
Road To Nowhere? China’s Belt and Road Initiative At Tipping Point
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a report on China BRI, and whether the Pakistan, Sri Lanka debt crises threaten Beijing’s regional influence: The drive to Pakistan’s port of Gwadar takes seven and a [...]

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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.