Cambodia’s Economy At A Covid Crossroads
June 26th, 2021 Via Asia Times, a report on Cambodia’s economy: No one is sure who first said it, yet it remains a truism that there are three types of lies: “Lies, damned lies and statistics.” Recent [...]
Tajikistan: Urgent Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises Needed
June 22nd, 2021 Via Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting, a report on Tajikistan’s urgent need to privatize its state-owned enterprises? State-owned enterprises are unprofitable, do not pay taxes, [...]
Pacific Undersea Cable Project Sinks After U.S. Warns Against Chinese Bid
June 22nd, 2021 Via Reuters, a report on strategic wrangling over undersea cables: A World Bank-led project declined to award a contract to lay sensitive undersea communications cables after Pacific island [...]
Egypt’s Prospects as an Energy Export Hub Across Three Continents
June 22nd, 2021 Via ISPI Online, a report on Egypt’s potential as an energy export hub: Egypt is on the threshold of becoming a natural gas and electricity export hub, a development which, if it materializes, [...]
Venezuela’s Maduro Pleads for Foreign Capital, Biden Deal in Caracas Interview
June 22nd, 2021 Via Bloomberg, a report on a recent interview with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro: Seated on a gilded Louis XVI chair in his office at Miraflores, a sprawling, neo-Baroque palace in northwest [...]
Sudan Reels From Tough Reforms
June 22nd, 2021 Via African Business, a report on how – after decades of sanctions and isolation – Sudan is pressing ahead with painful reforms: Thick plumes of smoke ?ose from blockades of burning tyres [...]

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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.