Trouble in Emerging-Market Paradise
Courtesy of Project Syndicate, an article examining the plight of the BRICS: During the last few years, a lot of hype has been heaped on the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). [...]
Azerbaijan: When It Comes To Pipelines, It’s Not Personal, It’s Strictly Business
Via Eurasia Review, an interesting commentary on the Nabucco pipeline failure: Just like the protagonist in the eponymous opera, the Nabucco pipeline, the one-time leading option for carrying natural [...]
Sudan, South Sudan: Outsiders Try Diplomacy to Prevent Oil Stoppage
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on South Sudan South Sudan has been gradually decreasing its oil production over the last week in response to Sudan’s continued threats to [...]
Ace Is The Place With The Afghan Hardware Man
Via Emerging Markets Frontier blog, an article on Ace Hardware’s planned entry to Afghanistan: Growing uncertainty swirls around Afghanistan’s economic climate as the country inches closer to [...]
Market Focus: Cambodia
Via Global Finance Magazine, a look at Cambodia: Often overshadowed by its regional rivals Vietnam, Thailand and, most recently, Myanmar, Cambodia has been undergoing a quiet transformation. After [...]
Russia’s Gazprom to Buy Kyrgyz State Energy Firm
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on Gazprom’s upcoming acquisition of a Kyrgyz energy firm: Russia’s looming acquisition of a key energy company in Kyrgyzstan will [...]

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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.