The Pipeline From Hell
Via The Diplomat, an interesting look at the Iran-Pakistan pipeline project: During his trip to Pakistan last month, U.S Secretary of State John Kerry warned Pakistan that it could face U.S. [...]
Sub-Saharan Africa: Competition Is Heating Up
Via Emerging Markets Insights, a look at competition and opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the second-fastest growing region in the world, growing at an average of 5.6% [...]
China Finds Resistance To Oil Deals In Africa
Courtesy of the New York Times, an interesting article on recent Chinese efforts to acquire oil deposits in Africa: In Niger, government officials have fought a Chinese oil giant step by step, [...]
Coca-Cola To Invest Over US$50m Into Uzbekistan In 2014
Via Emerging Frontiers, a report of a planned large scale investment into Uzbekistan: American firm Coca-Cola is planning to invest over US$50million into Uzbekistan in 2014, a regional manager of [...]
China And Central Asia: Trade And The New Silk Road Economic Belt
Via the Carnegie Endowment, an interesting look at China’s growing influence in Central Asia: China has come to displace both the United States and Russia as the great power with the most [...]
China’s Developing World Edge
Via The Diplomat, a look at efforts to engage the developing world: Since Deng Xiaoping’s administration launched its Reform and Opening Up policies in the late 1970s, China has integrated hundreds [...]

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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.