Russian Energy Giants: A Rough Road Ahead
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), interesting commentary on Rosneft and Gazprom: Forecast Rosneft will face difficulty as Moscow prioritizes the government’s financial and political [...]
Chinese Investment In Niger
Via Business Insider, an interesting look at Niger and China’s involvement in its nascent economy: Food options are limited in northern Niger, but one dietary staple is readily available just [...]
Colombia: To Benefit From Peso’s Crash?
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, an interesting article on Colombia: Colombia’s crumbling peso would appear to be bad news for the country of 47 million people. Not so, says finance minister [...]
The ISIS Economy
Via Vox, a look at the business of ISIS: ISIS has a lot of money. But we don’t know for sure how much or where it comes from. Which is why a very rare leak of ISIS’s internal [...]
European Investors Bet On Pakistan’s Leading Technology Startups
Via Frontera, an interesting look at Pakistan’s online market sector: Pakistan maintains the world’s sixth largest population, and online businesses there dream of the untapped potential [...]
Investing in Iran? You’d Better Like Tea, Cake and Bureaucracy
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on Iran: Isolated from the global economy for the past decade and with a population of 80 million, Iran is a fertile ground for business. But international investors [...]

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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.