Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Looks Beyond Resource Roots
April 19th, 2021 Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Abu Dhabi’s investment fund which is cutting energy and commodity holdings as it turns focus to tech: Abu Dhabi’s most active investment fund [...]
China-Iran Pact Boosts Pakistan’s Trade Hub Dream
April 19th, 2021 Via The Asia Times, a report on  how Islamabad’s rhetorical shift to all things ‘geo-economic’ has been influenced by China’s $400 billion plan for neighbouring Iran: When [...]
Pro-Environment Politics Won’t Deter Demand for Greenland’s Resources
April 18th, 2021 Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an article on the race for Greenland’s mineral resources: The appointment of an environmentalist government will temporarily delay mining [...]
Pakistan Takes Desperate Measures To Revive Gwadar
April 18th, 2021 Via Nikkei Asia, a report on Pakistan’s increasingly desperate measures to revive the Belt and Road’s Gwadar port: Pakistan’s federal and regional governments are taking a series [...]
Saudi Investment in Chinese Mainland
April 13th, 2021 Via Belt & Road News, an article on Saudi Investment in the Chinese Mainland: Ajlan & Bros Holding Group, a private conglomerate from Saudi Arabia, will further expand its investments in [...]
Currency Collapse Mirrors Turkmenistan’s Extreme Economic Woes
April 13th, 2021 Via Radio Free Europe, an article on Turkmenistan’s economic crisis: When the exchange rate of Turkmenistan’s national currency, the manat, fell to 40 to the dollar on the black market on [...]

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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.