China: Creating A National Consumer Base
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), some analysis of China’s efforts to create a national consumer base: One issue will be particularly important in shaping the Chinese [...]
Sub-Saharan Telecoms: Getting Connected
Via The Financial Times, an interesting article on sub-Saharan telecoms: The growth in sub-Saharan Africa’s telecoms industry has created global stars in the likes of M-Pesa and MTN, but its [...]
Pipeline Marks Scramble For Myanmar
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on the interests of east and west in Myanmar: In May, something curious will happen to the geography of China. The continental-sized country, whose [...]
Which African Cities Will See The Most Growth Over The Next Five Years?
Via How We Made It In Africa, a look at Africa’s urban growth: Companies looking to expand into Africa should seriously consider setting up shop in Accra, Lusaka and Luanda. This is if the [...]
Premium Noodle Makers – How To Keep More Profits At Home
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting look at how emerging market consumers may think of brands as their wealth grows: As China, India and Indonesia become more wealthy, more of their [...]
Opening A New Frontier In Bangladesh
Courtesy of Finance Asia, an article on Bangladesh: Bangladesh usually attracts attention for the wrong reasons. Too often the country appears in news headlines for its natural or man-made disasters, [...]

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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.