Djibouti: Africa’s Next Trade Hub
Via WikiStrat, a look at Djibouti’s economic potential: Djibouti has served as the main port that connects Ethiopia’s economy with that of the rest of the world since the Ethiopia/Eritrea war [...]
BRICS To BROOMS
Via Quartz, an interesting article on frontier markets: Despite being incredibly young, South Sudan’s position in a planned oil pipeline makes it a promising investment. As Jim O’Neill steps [...]
Beware Africa’s “Middle Class”
Courtesy of The Harvard Business Review, an interesting commentary on Africa’s middle class: If you have considered investing in Africa, you have no doubt been influenced by frequent recent [...]
Beijing’s Plans For A Post-Karzai Kabul
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, some analysis of China’s role in Afghanistan post-2014: Hamid Karzai’s derailment of this week’s planned U.S. peace talks with the Taliban may have been [...]
China and Central Asia: A Significant New Energy Nexus
Via The European Financial Review, an in-depth look at China’s interest in Central Asian petroleum reserves: China now accounts for almost 20 percent of the world’s energy consumption and its [...]
Peering Into The North Korean Economy, Via Satellite
Via the BBC, an interesting article on North Korea’s economy: Amid the current tensions between North and South Korea, much focus has been on their shared industrial zone, where economic output [...]

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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.