Prospects for the Moscow-Busan “Iron Silk Road Express”
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
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
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 [...]
With ASEAN Integration On The Horizon, Cambodia Coaxes Investors
Via Emerging Frontiers, a look at Cambodia: As the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) prepares for its single-market Economic Community in 2015, Cambodia is poised to benefit [...]
The New Emerging Market Multinationals
Via the European Financial Review, an interesting look at four strategies for disrupting markets and building brands being used by emerging market multinationals: In the past decade, a new breed of [...]
KFC Goes Missing In Syria
Courtesy of The Atlantic, a report on KFC’s decision to give up trying to do business in Syria: Syrians eat at a KFC outlet in Damascus in 2006. It closed its doors this month.  In 2006, [...]

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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.