Iraq’s Dubai Hits The Pause Button
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting look at Erbil where, with the Islamic State on their doorstep, Kurdish leaders have scaled back their once grandiose ambitions to focus on ensuring the survival of [...]
Broadband: East Africa’s 21st Century Railway To The World?
Via The Conversation, an interesting commentary on the potential impact fiber connectivity could have upon Africa’s development: The excitement over the potentially transformative effects of [...]
Venezuela: Economic End Game Near?
Via Business Insider, a look at Venezuela’s accelerating economic crisis: Venezuelan investors are abandoning ship en masse after the government indicated that it would not take immediate [...]
Cuba Seeks Over $8 billion In Foreign Investment
Via the Miami Herald, a look at Cuba’s investment needs:   Cuba asked international companies on Monday to invest more than $8 billion in the island as it attempts to kick-start a [...]
The 7 Fastest Growing Economies In Africa
Via Ventures Africa, a look at the quickest growing African economies: Only whisper it, but economic boom is coming to Africa. Yet this boom is not just coming from the continent’s natural [...]
Peru’s Economy: A Rocky Road To Recovery?
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a report on Peru’s economy: In less than 24 hours Peru’s economy – once feted as Latin America’s star and now struggling with a slowdown – suffered two [...]

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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.