North Korea’s Art Factory Has An International Market Niche
Via the Daily Beast, a look at a very interesting niche North Korean company: Did the Hermit Kingdom’s Soviet-style Kim Jong-il statue catch your eye? You’re in luck! The art [...]
New Road To Mandalay: The Trade Route Vital To Asia’s Future
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a look at how the ancient trade route from Myanmar to China has been upgraded and the role it will play a vital role in the globalized future of Asia: It is just [...]
Gas Pains: Central Asian Clash Impacts China’s Pipeline Plans
Via Eurasia Review, a report on the potential impact that recent Central Asian violence may have upon China’s pipeline construction plans: A fresh outbreak of border violence in Central Asia [...]
Africa 8: Continental Drivers In the Future?
Courtesy of the Financial Times, an article on the Africa 8: We’ve had Brics and Biits, the Mints and the Fragile Five. It’s now Africa’s term to acquire an investment appellation: the Africa [...]
Venezuela:Mortgaging Another$4B Of Oil Exports To China
Via Quartz, a report on another oil related transaction between Venezuela and China: The bigger the oil deal, the bigger the portrait. Chinese president Xi Jinping pledged $4 billion in loans to [...]
Iran: Fourth In Crude Oil Reserves, Second In Natural Gas
Via Eurasia Review, a detailed look at Iran’s energy profile: Iran holds some of the world’s largest deposits of proved oil and natural gas reserves, ranking as the world’s fourth-and [...]

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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.