Forget Emerging Markets: Welcome Frontier Markets
November 21st, 2013 Via The International Business Times, an interesting look at frontier markets: After emerging markets saw currency volatility and cash outflows amid Federal Reserve tapering talk this summer, [...]
Kazakhstan’s Bet on Rail
November 21st, 2013 Courtesy of the New York Times, an interesting article on Kazakhstan’s efforts to build a railway network to help the region diversify its exports and end reliance on Russia: The railroad [...]
Turkey: Energy Ambitions And Limitations
November 20th, 2013 Via STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at Turkey’s energy ambitions and limitations: Turkey hopes to take advantage of its location between Europe and Asia and become a regional energy [...]
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 [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.