Turkey’s Currency Crisis Threatens Its Syria Strategy
Via Al Monitor, a report on how Turkey’s economic turmoil might challenge Ankara’s grip over opposition-held areas in Syria, where in-house rivalries among the armed factions over financial [...]
Turkmenistan Trilateral Natural Gas Deal
Via Foreign Brief, a report on a trilateral Turkmenistan-Iran-Azerbaijan natural gas trade agreement that goes into effect today: A trilateral Turkmenistan-Iran-Azerbaijan natural gas trade [...]
U.S. Should Bet on Bangladesh
Via The Asia Times, commentary on the geopolitical importance Bangladesh has for the U.S.: Natural disasters, poverty and overpopulation are the reductive lenses through which many international [...]
How Argentina Pushed Chinese Investors to Help Revitalize Its Energy Grid
Via the Carnegie Endowment, a report on Argentina and Chinese investment: China has become a global power, but there is too little debate about how this has happened and what it means. Many argue [...]
Kenyan Flower Exports In Full Bloom
Via Logistics Update Africa, a report on Kenya’s cut flower industry: With a perfect all-year growing climate, affordable labour and access to temperature-controlled air freight, Kenya has all [...]
Pakistan-Iran-Turkey Rail Freight Line Reopens After Ten Years
Via Silk Road Briefing, a report on a newly resumed Islamabad-Istanbul rail service which will boost trade among the Economic Cooperation Organisation countries: The first freight train to run from [...]

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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.