Top Marx: Ex Communist States Great For Business
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at the economic growth of former Communist countries: Business leaders and stock market investors tend not, as a rule, to be staunch supporters of hardline [...]
Rethinking Risk In Mongolia
Via the Financial Times, an interesting article on Mongolia: Four years ago, Mongolia’s economy was the fastest growing in the world, the stock market was booming and the future looked very bright. [...]
Iran: India’s Gateway to Central Asia and the Middle East
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of India’s strategic plans for connecting with Central Asia and the Middle East: Forecast Established ports in the Gulf and Arabian seas [...]
Iran: The Final Great Investment Frontier?
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Iran: Iran’s historic nuclear deal and the lifting of sanctions should bring the country back into the global community. For investors, it is being [...]
Cuba: The Island Of Disconnect?
Courtesy of EMIA, a look at Cuba’s telecommunications market: However, the number is misleading, as it includes people that can only log onto a government-controlled Intranet of state-approved [...]
Africa’s Big Cities Offer Investor Potential
Via the EMIA, a look at Africa’s cities: Africa’s biggest economies have been hammered by the collapse in commodity prices over the past 18 months but there are still investment bright [...]

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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.