China’s Belt and Road Keeps Steaming Ahead In Laos
Via The Asia Times, commentary on how China’s Belt and Road keeps steaming ahead in Laos: Under fire for bullying neighbors in the South China Sea, China is patting itself on the back for the [...]
Uzbekistan Looks To Pakistani Ports
Via Dawn, a report on Uzbekistan’s interest in utilizing Karachi and Gwadar ports: Uzbekistan on Thursday formally sought Pakistan’s support for accession to the Quadrilateral Traffic in [...]
China’s Expensive Bet On Africa Has Failed
Via the Nikkei Asian Review, commentary on how the coronavirus driven crash in commodity prices has wasted $200 billion in Chinese investment and loans to African nations: China’s commercial [...]
Ethiopia, Once One Of World’s Fastest Growing Economies, Facing Challenges
Via Quartz, an updated look at Ethiopia: Ethiopia’s once promising economy has run into a wall as the global economic crisis unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic devastates the nation of more than [...]
The Trade and Transit Woes of Landlocked Afghanistan
Via The Diplomat, an article on how Pakistan plays a big role in dictating the fortunes of the Afghan economy: Being landlocked remains one of the most disadvantageous positions for a state, [...]
Mexico’s Pemex: From Cash Cow To Resource Drain
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at Pemex: At the end of 2016, Pemex came up with a new strategy: it would focus exclusively on profitable activities. The plan, a no-brainer for most [...]

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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.