China About to Start $35 Billion of Silk Road Plan in Pakistan
Via Bloomberg, a report on China’s plans to start its investment in Pakistan as part of its Silk Road initiative: More than three quarters of $46 billion of planned Chinese-led investment in [...]
Russia Lacks Infrastructure to Take Part in China’s Silk Road
Via Window on Eurasia, a report on Russia’s infrastructure limitations to participate in China’s Silk Road project and Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Turkey and Afghanistan’s [...]
Why Is China So Interested In Investing In Rwanda?
Via Quartz, an interesting look at China’s interest in investing in Rwanda, a landlocked country with few natural resources: It’s hard not to see China’s footprint wherever one goes in [...]
How China Is Taking The Silk Road To Financial Dominance
Via CapX, a look at China’s Silk Road ambitions: Forget, for a moment, the uncertainties surrounding President-elect Donald Trump. Because in the East, the world’s biggest ever credit boom is [...]
Pakistan, China Launch New Trade Route
Via Terra Daily, a look at a new trade route linking southwestern Gwadar port to the Chinese city of Kashgar: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Sunday inaugurated a trade route linking [...]
Iran’s New Petroleum Contract Regime Attracts First Foreign Companies
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on Iran’s new contract regime: The Iran Petroleum Contract has passed a major milestone, with the first two foreign firms signing a [...]

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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.