Capital Meant For Myanmar May Go To Vietnam and Cambodia
March 16th, 2021 Via Nikkei Asia, an article on how capital meant for Myanmar may seek havens in Vietnam and Cambodia: The military coup in Myanmar has forced investors who had earmarked capital for the country to [...]
Fears Mount Over North Korean ‘Great Leap Backwards
March 14th, 2021 Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on how Kim Jong Un’s ideology of self-reliance risks causing food shortages and economic collapse: On the western bank of the Yalu in the Chinese city [...]
Middle East LNG Hedging in China’s Energy Diplomacy
March 12th, 2021 Via The Diplomat, an article on how increased demand for energy will give China greater and greater dependency on – and sway over – the world’s LNG producers: China’s energy mix is currently [...]
Uzbekistan Offered Access To Pakistani Ports
March 12th, 2021 Via Pakistan’s Technology Times, an article on potential cooperation between Uzbekistan and Pakistan: Prime Min­­ister Imran Khan on Wednesday assured Uzbe­kis­tan of complete facilitation [...]
Egypt Seeks To Turn Into Regional Hub For Electricity Supply
March 10th, 2021 Via Al Monitor, an article on how Egypt, as part of plans to turn into a major regional hub for electricity, announced plans to increase the capacity of an interconnection line between Egypt and [...]
China Is Buying Record Amounts of Iranian Oil
March 10th, 2021 Via The Diplomat, an article on China’s increasing close relationship with Iran: China’s purchases of Iranian oil climbed to record highs in 2021, according to data from Refinitiv, a global [...]

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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.