Airlift: Pakistan’s Buzziest Start Up
March 15th, 2022 Via Rest of World, a look at one of Pakistan’s “buzziest” start ups: After graduating from college in 2016, Yahya Humayun jumped headfirst into management consulting. He joined [...]
Forget BRICS. Welcome TICKS or MIST?
March 15th, 2022 Via CNN, a look at some of the emerging markets growing in popularity as Russia is removed from many such indices: For many years, the world’s most popular emerging markets have been the [...]
What to Make of DRC’s Revenue Dispute With China Molybdenum
March 15th, 2022 Courtesy of STRATFOR, analysis (subscription required) of the DRC’s revenue dispute with mining giant China Molybdenum: In the Democratic Republic of Congo, an ongoing revenue dispute regarding [...]
Sudan’s First Y Combinator Start Up
March 13th, 2022 Via Quartz, a report that Sudan has its first Y Combinator startup: When the demo day for Y Combinator’s winter cohort of startups begins later this month, Bloom will put Sudan on the American [...]
Ukraine War Threatens Kazakh Oil Exports
March 11th, 2022 Via Eurasia.net, a report on the impact that the Ukraine war will have up on Kazakhstan’s oil exports: Kazakhstan is facing economic crisis as the war in Ukraine threatens crude oil exports, [...]
China’s PEACE Cable in the Middle East and North Africa
March 11th, 2022 Via the Middle East Institute, a look at the PEACE Cable in the Middle East and North Africa: As an ambitious and rapidly growing superpower, China has quickly distinguished itself in emerging [...]

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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.