How Chinese Money Will Transform Pakistan
Via Third Pole.net, a look at how the China Pakistan Economic corridor could help transform Pakistan into a major logistical hub, and boost its economic growth: The development of the China-Pakistan [...]
Saudi Arabia Struggles to Remake Its Economy
Courtesy of The New York Times, a detailed interesting look at Saudi Arabia, where low crude prices and the war in Yemen have sent a shock through the kingdom’s budget and forced it to revise its [...]
Palestine Gets FTSE Frontier Market Status For First Time
Courtesy of Lebanon’s Daily Star, a report on Palestine: The Nablus-based Palestine Exchange began trading as a frontier market for the first time in its two-decade history. The classification [...]
Venezuela Crises Compound as Oil Industry Falls Into Disarray
Courtesy of the New York Times, an interesting look at Venezuela’s crisis: One oil rig was idle for weeks because a single piece of equipment was missing. Another was attacked by armed gangs [...]
Why Pakistan’s Market Beats China’s And India’s
Via Forbes, interesting commentary on Pakistan: Pakistan’s equity market has been outperforming China’s and India’s markets by a big margin in recent years. In the last twelve months, Global X [...]
Iran: Potential To Become A Strategic Metal Producer
Via The Iran Project, a look at Iran’s mining potential: Iran’s first titanium production plant will be up and running in the next six months, the manager of the Kahnuj titanium pilot project [...]

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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.