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 [...]
The Amazing, Surprising, Africa-Driven Demographic Future Of The Earth
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a fascinating series of graphics detailing the demographic future of Earth.  I cannot copy the interactive charts here but I strongly encourage you to visit the full [...]
Tomorrow’s Latin America Won’t be Won With Yesterday’s Playbook
Courtesy of Emerging Markets Insights, some commentary on South America: Frontier Strategy Group is witnessing a dizzying array of changes to the business landscape in Latin America. Some are highly [...]
Extreme Franchising: Bringing RadioShack to Afghanistan
Via Businessweek, an interesting look at Radio Shack’s efforts to enter Afghanistan: The next time you stroll through downtown Kabul, you might be able to buy batteries from a RadioShack (RSH) [...]

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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.