Chinese Investment In Africa
August 13th, 2012 Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a very interesting look at China’s investments in [...]
Russian Evolution – Reshaping Putin’s Oil Industry
August 13th, 2012 Via The Financial Times, an examination of Russia’s oil industry and its latest evolution under Putin: Russia’s oil industry has been through two great evolutions since the collapse of [...]
The Five Largest Economies In Africa
August 13th, 2012 Via Ventures Africa, a look at the five largest economies in Africa: No African nation has yet joined the ranks of the developed nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [...]
U.S., Too, Wants to Bolster Investment in a Continent’s Economic Promise
August 9th, 2012 Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on increased US interest in African investment: When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clintonlanded in South Africa this week, she brought along a hefty [...]
Can PDVSA Recover?
August 9th, 2012 Via The Journal of Energy Security, a look at Venezuela’s PDVSA: The Venezuelan oil industry can be pictured as a toothless tiger resting on its haunches before a huge slice of raw meat.  The [...]
Who Are Tomorrow’s Consumers?
August 9th, 2012 Via Project Syndicate, a look at the future of consumer markets: Luxury-brand companies’ stock prices plunged in July, after their financial results disappointed investors, owing largely to slower [...]

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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.