Consumer Brands Lured To Mongolia By Mining Boom
Via the Salt Lake City Tribune, an interesting article on Mongolia: Burger King has opened its first store in sparsely populated Mongolia, joining companies from Pizza Hut to Porsche in anticipating [...]
Impact Of Global Economic Downturn On Latin America
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of the impact of the global economic downturn on Latin America: In its first regionwide downturn since 2009, Latin America’s economy is [...]
China’s Great Game: Taming Energy Rich Xinjiang
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a report on how Beijing’s attempts to tame energy-rich Xinjiang may be stoking unrest from its ethnic Uighurs: As one of the world’s most remote and landlocked [...]
China’s Great Game: A Modern Silk Road To A New Empire
Courtesy of the Financial Times, an interesting article on China’s new Silk Road initiative: “The granaries in all the towns are brimming with reserves, and the coffers are full with [...]
ISIS, Inc.
Via The Financial Times, an interesting look at ISIS’s petroleum economy: On the outskirts of al-Omar oilfield in eastern Syria, with warplanes flying overhead, a line of trucks stretches for [...]
Bolivia: Bracing For Economic Change
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an detailed analysis of Bolivia’s economic prospects: After nearly a decade in power, Bolivian President Evo Morales seems poised to extend his [...]

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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.