Indonesia’s $1 Billion Win in Apple Negotiations Sets New Precedent
Via Bloomberg, a report on Indonesia’s negotiations with Apple: For five months, Indonesians didn’t have access to Apple Inc.’s latest iPhone 16, as a tug of war between the country and [...]
Priorities For Rebuilding Syria’s Economy
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on the priorities for rebuilding Syria’s economy: After more than a decade of war, destruction and economic collapse in Syria, the country’s new government [...]
How Trump and Biden’s Focus on Minerals Became Core to U.S. Foreign Policy
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how President Trump has turned to high-pressure tactics to acquire critical minerals: President Trump’s intense interest in Ukraine’s minerals seemed [...]
India Could Put Chabahar on Slow Burner as IMEC Gathers Pace
Via The Diplomat, a report on how abandoning its Chabahar port project is not a preferred option for India as its Central Asia ambitions depend on trade via this Iranian port: To apply “maximum [...]
Afghanistan and Uzbekistan Reach Agreement On Railway Project
Via AMU.tv, a report on a new agreement between Uzbekistan and Afghanistan on a railway project: Taliban’s deputy chief minister, Abdul Ghani Baradar, said on Sunday that they reached an agreement [...]
How Afghanistan Can Benefit from China’s Investments
Via The Diplomat, a report on how a strategic relationship with China could end Afghanistan’s isolation through economic cooperation and ensure stability through strategic engagement: Although [...]

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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.