China, Russia May Vie For Turkmenistan’s Gas
Via Radio Free Asia, an article on the potential tussle over Turkmenistan’s natural gas: After years of inaction, Russia has resumed natural gas imports from Turkmenistan, raising the prospect [...]
China’s BRI: Redrawing Map of Investment As Well As Science
Via Nature, an interesting look at how China’s Belt and Road Initiative will transform the lives and work of tens of thousands of researchers On a freezing November morning, Ashraf Islam is [...]
Mogadishu’s Motorcycle Hailing App
Via Quartz, an interesting look at a new motorcycle hailing app in Mogadishu: You can now hail a motorcycle service in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. The Go! app launched in the Indian Ocean city [...]
Indonesia: A Mega Economy of Tomorrow
Via Eurasia Review, a report on Indonesia: The World Bank analytically divides the world’s economies into four income groups: high, upper-middle, lower-middle and low. Countries that are [...]
China’s Belt & Road: Cinching Tight Around India?
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), detailed commentary on China’s BRI impact on India: Highlights China will continue to expand its Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia because the [...]
China: Digging Deep in Landlocked Laos
Via The Diplomat, a look at China’s growing strategic presence in Laos: Laos, a country of 6.8 million people roughly the size of China’s southern autonomous region of Guangxi, is often [...]

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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.