MINT As The New BRICS: New Economic Giants or Just Clever Labelling?
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting look at the rapid interest in MINTS: The BRIC countries, the original four mega economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China added South Africa around the time of [...]
Emerging Markets 2014 Outlook: Shaping The Next Decade
Via his blog, Mark Mobius’ views on many emerging economies for 2014 and beyond: As we embark upon a new year, the Templeton Emerging Markets Group believes 2014 could be an important year for [...]
A River Runs Through It …The Mekong Region
Via Foreign Policy, a detailed look at the Mekong River region: Trade flows: borders converging on the Mekong River Mainland Southeast Asia — long fought over and controlled by outside powers, [...]
Colombia: Peace Is Good For Business
Via Ozy, an interesting look at Colombia: Ten years ago, the world had written Colombia off as a tangled wreckage of drug cartels, Marxist guerrillas and paramilitary death squads, where violence was [...]
Iraq
Via Emerging Frontiers, an updated look at Iraq: It might seem surprising that Asia Frontier Capital recently attended an investor conference in Iraq, as news coming out of the country usually [...]
Kenya Launches New Railway To Reach South Sudan And Burundi
Via the BBC, a report on a major infrastructure project that could redefine commerce in East and Central Africa: Kenya has formally launched a new, Chinese-financed railway which should extend across [...]

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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.