Turkmenistan’s Gas Industry: Continuing To Thrive Despite Global Energy Insecurity
Via Eurasia Review, an interesting analysis of Turkmenistan’s gas industry: At a time where global energy insecurity is high, an energy rich country such as Turkmenistan would be expected to be [...]
Coffee: Providing An Economic “Jolt” To South Sudan
Courtesy of the Financial Times, an interesting report on coffee’s importance to South Sudan: Four years after independence there is very little to celebrate in South Sudan. Border and land [...]
North Korea’s Markets
Via North Korea News, an interesting history of market activity in North Korea: In the last five to seven years, a consensus has emerged among students of North Korea. Pretty much all now agree that [...]
Emerging Markets: Still The Future
Via Bloomberg, a look at emerging markets: Remember when emerging economies were supposed to save us all? After the 2008 financial crisis, the traditional engines of global growth—the U.S., Western [...]
Venezuela’s Economic Crisis: By Pictures
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), interesting imagery analysis of Venezuela’s economic crisis: Satellite images of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela’s main port of entry for imported [...]
Papua New Guinea’s Ambitious National Telecoms Plan
Via LinkedIn, an interesting look at Papua New Guinea: Although rich in natural resources, Papua New Guinea is one of the world’s less developed countries. From low to high, its GDP per capita [...]

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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.