Reliance Jio’s Cheap Data Turned India’s Internet Dreams Into Reality
Via Quartz, an article on how Reliance Jio’s cheap data turned India’s internet dreams into reality: In 2015, not long after India first got high-speed 4G internet, the cost of 1GB of mobile [...]
Has China’s Promise To Develop Venezuela’s Mines Gone Unfulfilled?
Via Belt and Road News, an article on China’s promise to develop Venezuela’s mines: At the turn of the century, China and Venezuela signed several agreements worth millions of dollars for the [...]
China’s Gas Shortage Boosts Central Asia’s Role
Via Eurasia Review, an article on how Central Asia producers may help solve China’s gas shortage: China’s growing demand for natural gas has been driving closer engagement with Turkmenistan, [...]
Business as Usual: Chinese Investments After the Myanmar Coup
Via The Diplomat, an article on Chinese investments in Myanmar which – paradoxically – involves collaboration with the Myanmar military which could mean more instability in the long run: [...]
Inside Sberbank’s push to become Russia’s Amazon
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Sberbank’s desire to become Russia’s Amazon: For years, Sberbank thought its thousands of green-liveried branches across Russia were holding [...]
The Afghan Commodities That China, India And Russia May Develop
Via Silk Road Briefing, commentary on potential access to Afghanistan’s mineral resources in light of the Taliban’s victory: Afghanistan’s huge mineral wealth and development [...]

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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.