Networking the “Belt and Road”
Via the Mercator Institute for China Studies, commentary on the digital Silk Road: Innovation and the Digital Silk Road are moving to the forefront of Beijing’s efforts to develop the Belt and [...]
Egypt’s Economic Turnaround
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Egypt’s economy: Three years ago, Egypt’s economy was teetering on the abyss, as entrepreneurs scoured the black market for dollars and foreign [...]
China’s Footprints Across Africa
Via Quartz, a visual look at China’s infrastructure investment in Africa: The growth of Chinese investment in Africa over the past two decades has been unprecedented and unparalleled. Despite [...]
Is Egypt’s Military About To Conquer Red Sea Tourism?
Via Al Monitor, an article on the Egyptian military’s growing commercial interests in the tourism sector: Having conquered numerous industrial sectors of the Egyptian economy, the Egyptian [...]
Tengiz: A Windswept Plain, a Sea of Oil and a Mountain of Money
Courtesy of The New York Times, a look at a Chevron-led joint venture among several energy companies that is spending billions of dollars in Kazakhstan to expand an oil field remarkable for its [...]
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: An Updated Look
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at China’s BRI: It’s billed as the new Silk Road, but China’s Belt and Road Initiative is much more ambitious than that, as [...]

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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.