China-Iran Pact Boosts Pakistan’s Trade Hub Dream
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
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
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
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
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 [...]
Geopolitical Competition in Caspian Region About More Than Gas and Oil
Via The Jamestown Foundation, an article on the Caspian region: Geopolitical competition in the Caspian Sea region over oil and natural gas fields, pipelines carrying these hydrocarbons across that [...]

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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.