Pacific Undersea Cable Project Sinks After U.S. Warns Against Chinese Bid
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
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
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
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 [...]
Nigeria’s Cratering Economy May Become Africa’s Biggest Threat
Via Bloomberg, a look at Nigeria’s weakening economy: If there was ever a time Nigeria could have taken off, it was in 1999. Democracy had been restored, with its economy reopening after [...]
Vietnam and Kazakhstan: Stand Out Investment Opportunities
Via International Investment, a report on why Vietnam and Kazakhstan stand out as investment opportunities: Save for China and a handful of Southeast Asian countries – seen as some of the [...]

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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.