China: Doubling Down On The Digital Silk Road
Via Reconnecting Asia, an article on China’s efforts to build the digital Silk Road: Summary: While the core focus of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is on traditional infrastructure [...]
Non-Stop From Baku To Europe – A New Silk Road Corridor Emerges
Via Forbes, a look at the middle corridor of the New Silk Road: Just ten years ago, a non-stop freight train from fringes of Asia into the core of Europe may have sounded like an odd twist of [...]
New Silk Road Money Is Paving The Old Silk Road
Via The Asia Times, an article on the hurricane of yuan blowing through Central Asia, funding everything from high-rise hotels to thousands of kilometers of highways: There never used to be much to [...]
Could Caspian Cooperation Help Solve Turkmenistan’s Economic Problems?
Via Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting, commentary on Turkmenistan: In the last 2-3 years, independent media write regularly about the inflation in Turkmenistan, incessant queues, shortage [...]
Kazakhstan’s ‘Opening Up’ Makes It A Standout Among Frontier Markets
Via Forbes, a look at Kazakhstan: Famous hedge fund manager Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates in Connecticut likes to say that either you’re being paid for earnings or you’re being paid for [...]
Somalia To Announce Plans For First Oil Licensing Round In December
Via Reuters, a report on Somalia’s plans for first oil licensing round in December: Somalia will announce plans in December for its first ever oil and gas licensing round, its oil minister [...]

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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.