If It Doesn’t Have A Starbucks, It’s A Frontier Market
Via Forbes, an interesting article on frontier markets by Alex Bernard of Schulze Global Investments: Hungry for higher returns and put off by sluggish growth and sky-high valuations in traditional [...]
China’s Global Ambitions: Loans And Strings Attached
Courtesy of The New York Times, an interesting look at China’s investment in Ecuador and elsewhere, as it uses its economic clout to win diplomatic allies and secure natural resources around [...]
Cuba Hoping To Kickstart Offshore Oil & Gas Industry
Via Stasha Macro World, an interesting look at Cuba’s effort to kickstart its offshore petroleum activities: The Cuban oil company Cubapetroleo, or Cupet, is close to a deal with Angola’s [...]
China: Betting On North Korea In Gamble To Save Its Rustbelt
Courtesy of Business Insider, an interesting look at China’s plans to utilize North Korea as part of its strategy to revitalize its NE rustbelt territory: At China’s very farthest limits, [...]
A Global Middle Class? Not Yet
Courtesy of Fast Company, an interesting report on the claim that a global middle class is emerging: People around the world are pulling themselves out of extreme poverty. But outside of China, [...]
China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative
Via Frontier Strategy Group, an interesting look at China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative: Ever since Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed to build a cross-regional economic plan in 2013 to [...]

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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.