Asia’s Next BRICS?
April 4th, 2014 Courtesy of The Diplomat, an article on how – As growth in the BRICS slows – many of the new economic stars are from the Asia-Pacific: In a recent announcement, global credit insurer [...]
Petroleo Brasileiro: A South American Sleeping Monster?
April 2nd, 2014 Via Guru Focus, an article on Petroleo Brasileiro: My advisor during college was the son of a retired Brazilian military official. Before turning to academics he was an advisor for the Brazilian [...]
The Uganda “Trap”
April 2nd, 2014 Courtesy of Emerging Markets Insights, a detailed analysis of Uganda: Kampala’s skyline Apparently Ugandans very rarely say no; they much prefer to say maybe. As I sit (without a previous [...]
What’s To Become Of Afghanistan’s Mines?
April 2nd, 2014 Via Foreign Policy, a look at the future of Afghanistan’s mining sector: Five days after Sardar Ahmad Khan, his wife, and two of their three children were murdered by teenage gunmen while [...]
Has China Won The Caspian Gas War?
April 1st, 2014 Via Foreign Policy, a dated (2010) but still instructive look at pipeline politics in Central Asia: Natural gas is in the midst of a transformative moment. The advent of shale gas, the growth of [...]
Map Of World Sized By Population & Changing Global Economy
April 1st, 2014 Via Big Picture Agriculture, an interesting graphic of the world, sized by population and reflective of the globe’s changing economy, which illustrates the likelihood of a tri-polar world in [...]

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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.