Pakistan and China: Don’t Fear Chabahar Port
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at what Iran’s Chabahar port deal with India and Afghanistan really means for China and Pakistan’s CPEC: Recently, on the sidelines of the sixth Heart of Asia [...]
India, Iran: Cooperating On Central Asia
Via the National Interest, some commentary on  how – from security to energy – the two rising powers of India and Iran have many interests in common: Iran and India have long had [...]
African Economies To Watch In 2017
Via Quartz, a look at some African economies who may outperform in 2017: With the consequences of Brexit and an increasingly inward-looking United States still unfolding, 2017 is likely to be an [...]
How Myanmar Created A Telco Boom
Via Emerging Markets Investor Association (EMIA), a review of Myanmar’s mobile telephony market: Myanmar’s opening represents the dismantling of one of the world’s last pariah states. Over [...]
Iran’s Guards Corps To Operate Mobile Service In Syria
Via Al Arabiya, a report on Iran’s business engagement in Syria: Iran will be granted a license to become a mobile service operator in Syria under agreements to expand economic ties between the [...]
CPEC: Pakistan’s Expensive Gamble
Courtesy of The Gulf News, commentary on how some senior economists in Pakistan are now increasingly voicing their concern over the terms ?of financing from China for CPEC initiatives: The [...]

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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.