Why Hasn’t Mongolia Developed Stronger Ties with Kazakhstan?
August 18th, 2013 Via The Diplomat, an interesting report on Mongolia’s regional alliance strategy: Since 1990, Mongolia has pursued a multidirectional foreign policy, forging strong ties with such global [...]
Kyrgyzstan: Future Economic Colony Of Russian Gazprom And China?
August 18th, 2013 Via the Emerging Markets blog, an interesting report on Kyrgyzstan: The sale of Kyrgyzgaz company for a symbolic price of US $1 to Russian gas monopoly Gazprom OAO has been finalized and may [...]
Libya’s City States
August 15th, 2013 Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a report on Libya’s city states: By all rights, Misrata, Libya’s third-largest city, ought to be a mess. The late Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi considered the [...]
Nigeria
August 15th, 2013 Via SilkInvest, a look at Nigeria: At Silk Invest, we believe that Nigeria is probably one of most misunderstood places in the world today. And even though it continues to impress the global business [...]
Somalia Deal Raises Concerns About Oil Risks
August 12th, 2013 Via The Financial Times, a look at Somalia’s fledgling oil industry: The signing of the new Somali government’s first oil contract with an untested company linked to a British peer raises [...]
Mexico Opens Up Energy Sector
August 12th, 2013 Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Mexico’s decision to open up its energy sector: President Enrique Peña Nieto has unveiled plans to change Mexico’s constitution and open up the [...]

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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.