China’s Key Cities: From Local Places To Global Players
Via the European Financial Review, a look at the growth and future of some of China’s cities: China projects a huge and continually growing profile and impact on the world stage. Much of this [...]
Isis Inc: Loot & Taxes Keep Jihadi Economy Churning
Via The Financial Times, a report on the role that looting and taxes play in keeping the terrorist movement funded: Even under jihadi rule, death and taxes remain the two great certainties of life. [...]
Investing In Cuba’s Future
Via Bloomberg, some commentary on Cuba: Don’t break out your Montecristos just yet, but the U.S. and Cuba just started talks on compensation claims for expropriated property and damages. [...]
Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) Pipeline
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of latest developments regarding TAPI: Two workmen stand next to the symbolic first piece of a natural gas pipeline to China outside of [...]
South Korean SMEs: Ready For North Korea?
Via the Peterson Institute, a look at the readiness of South Korean SMEs to enter the North Korean market: We are often negative about the business environment in North Korea and the DPRK [...]
Venezuela’s Energy Profile
Via Eurasia Review, a look at Venezuela’s energy sector: Venezuela is one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of crude oil. The country has been one of the largest exporters of [...]

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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.