Mongolia, China: An Encouraging Signs for Investors
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on Mongolia’s changing attitude towards Chinese investment: Mongolian Prime Minister Norovyn Altankhuyag (L) greets Chinese President Xi [...]
Bringing Central Africa’s Minerals To Port
Via STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of how several southern African nations are competing to bring minerals produced in Africa’s landlocked regions to ports along the coastline: A [...]
Angola’s Rich Potential
Via Ozy, an interesting look at Angola, a nation which could be the richest in Africa…if it could pull itself together: While it only has just over 20 million people, and it registers on the [...]
Forget China… Switch To Zimbabwe, Mexico Or Egypt
Via the Financial Times, an interesting article on how growth is ‘driven by knowledge – at the level of society, not the individual’: Where does growth come from? Why do some countries [...]
Myanmar’s Mining Industry
Via STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of Myanmar’s extractive mining industry: Myanmar villagers pan for copper near the Sabal hill mine in Monywa in 2012. Summary A new bill submitted [...]
Ethiopia: One Of Africa’s Best Kept Secrets
Via Silk Invest, a look at Ethiopia: In this edition of Silk Invest’s Frontier Market Insights we take a close look at what we believe is one of Africa’s great treasures: Ethiopia. At the bottom [...]

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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.