‘Owning’ A Home In North Korea
May 25th, 2016 Via NK News, an interesting look at ‘owning’ a home in North Korea, where esidency rights and restrictions on moving means one all but owns the place: The North Korean law makes it quite clear: [...]
India’s $500 Million Port Deal with Iran
May 25th, 2016 Via Quartz, a look at India’s $500m deal to develop Iran’s Chabahar port and plan to invest an additional $16 billion in the Chabahar free trade zone: Barely five months after the US and [...]
Cuba Legalizes Small and Medium Private Businesses
May 25th, 2016 Via BBC, a report on Cuba’s legalization of small- and medium-sized private businesses: Cuba’s government has announced that it is legalising small and medium-sized private businesses. It [...]
India: Watching China’s New Silk Road Corridor Closely
May 18th, 2016 Courtesy of the Financial Times, an article examining India’s growing angst over China’s regional involvement: Chinese labourers work on the Karakoram highway in northern Pakistan Talk [...]
New Silk Road: Land Bridge Saves Thirty Days of Shipping Time
May 18th, 2016 Via the Financial Times, a report on the new land Silk Road route that takes 14 days versus 45 by sea: Alireza Saadat started to trace and document Iran’s segment of the ancient Silk Road four [...]
New Silk Road: Transporting Laptops and Frozen Chicken
May 18th, 2016 Courtesy of the Financial Times, a report on the new Silk Road: Illustrated map depicting the journey of the Venetian merchant Marco Polo (1254 – 1324) along the silk road to China If the [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.