BRICS vs. MINTS
November 14th, 2013 Via Bloomberg, an interesting article on MINTs by Jim O’Neill: I spent last week in Indonesia, working on a series for BBC Radio about four of the world’s most populous non-BRIC emerging [...]
The Future of BRIC & MIST Economies
November 14th, 2013 Via AlphaNow, an interesting infographic on BRIC and MIST [...]
Pipelines Of Empire
November 13th, 2013 Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of the geopolitical impact of pipelines in Europe: At this juncture in history, the fate of Europe is wound up not in ideas but [...]
Prospects for the Moscow-Busan “Iron Silk Road Express”
November 12th, 2013 Via SinoNK, a report on the new rail connection between Russia and North Korea: The DPRK’s northeast is once again the place to look for economic and political policy changes in the hermit kingdom. [...]
Assets Of The Ayatollah
November 12th, 2013 Courtesy of Reuters, a very interesting multi-part look at how Khamenei’s conglomerate thrived as sanctions squeezed Iran: Part 1: A Reuters investigation details a key to the supreme leader’s [...]
Mongolia’s Mining Sector
November 12th, 2013 Via Mining.com, an interesting article on Mongolia’s mining sector: On November 3 Mongolia’s new, friendlier foreign investment law came into force. Probably not a day too soon. The Asian [...]

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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.