North Korea: The Next Thailand Of Asia?
October 31st, 2013 Via NK News.org, an interesting report on North Korea: Nearly all communist states tended to have a “main construction project,” an impressive undertaking where, if the newspapers were to be [...]
Portrait Of A Frontier Investor
October 30th, 2013 Courtesy of the Financial Times, an interesting look at Schulze Global Investments, a frontier market investment fund: Pioneer fund: Gabriel Schulze is upbeat about Ethiopia No sooner had US investor [...]
South Sudan Hopes To Attract New Oil Investment
October 30th, 2013 Via STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting update on South Sudan: Oil workers at the Thar Jath field in Unity state, South Sudan. Summary The South Sudanese Energy Ministry’s Oct. 29 [...]
China’s Venezuela Exposure
October 29th, 2013 Via The Dipomat, a report on China’s engagement with Venezuela: The visit of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to China last month was, on the face of it, a cause for quite a bit of relief [...]
Kazakhstan’s Energy Sector
October 29th, 2013 Via Eurasia Review, a detailed review of Kazakhstan’s energy sector: Kazakhstan is a major oil producer, and estimated total liquids production was 1.64 million barrels per day (bbl/d) in 2013. [...]
Investment Opportunities In Cameroon
October 29th, 2013 Via Ventures Africa, a look at Cameroon: Things have continued to improve in Cameroon since the global recession in 2009 hampered its already delicate economy. The central African country endured a [...]

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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.