Chinese Inroads Into Central Asia: Focus on Oil and Gas
Via the Journal of Energy Security, a report on China’s efforts to focus on oil & gas opportunities in Central Asia: There is no question that if any country has experienced unprecedented [...]
Ethiopia: Ready For Foreign Investment?
Via the BBC, a report on Ethiopia’s potential for foreign investors: Ethiopia was once a byword for poverty and famine. It is still one of the poorest countries in the world, with an estimated [...]
High Risk Investing – The New Trend in Energy
Via Energy Daily, a look at investing strategies in the energy sector: Risk perception isn’t what it used to be. Ask the swelling ranks of Canadian junior oil and gas companies braving [...]
The Age Of The Affluent: The Dynamics Of China’s Next Consumption Engine
Via WorldCrunch, an article stating that China’s middle class will triple in the next 10 years, according to a new report by the Boston Consulting Group(BCG). By 2020, it should have 280 million [...]
Russia And China: Shared (Border) Interests
Via Mark Mobius, some commentary on the shared interests of Russia and China: Whether our neighbors are as close as the airplane seat next to us or across a national border, most would probably agree [...]
Forget the Silk Road, Hit The M3: Mozambique, Myanmar, Mongolia
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a article on what some have termed the M3 Axis: Myanmar, Mozambique, and Mongolia: Emerging markets investors certainly love their acronyms. First came the Brics, [...]

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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.