Despite Regional Tumult, Jordan’s Premier Woos Investors
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a look at Jordan’s efforts to cultivate investment: With no end in sight to the crises in its neighborhood, Jordan’s case remains a very tough sell to [...]
Chinese Railway Diplomacy: Fostering Regional Change With Global Implications
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a very interesting look at China’s railway diplomacy One of the highlights of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to Latin America has been [...]
Middleweight Cities: Key To Global Growth
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting look at the rise of middleweight cities in the global economy: Even Western executives who are good at geography may have a hard time picking out [...]
Turkmenistan And Europe’s Pipe Dreams
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting look at the possibility of Turkmen gas serving Europe: Maroš Šef?ovi?, the European Commission’s vice president in charge of energy, has been hitting the old [...]
Equatorial Guinea: Self-Proclaimed “Singapore of Africa”
Via The World Folio, an interesting report on Equatorial Guinea: Buoyed by the funds from oil exports as well as the prestige of its newly discovered resources, Equatorial Guinea has begun to [...]
Pakistan’s Balochistan Natural Gas Reserves
Via Global Voices online, an interesting look at Balochistan’s natural gas potential: Balochistan is the most underdeveloped province of Pakistan, and Dera Bugti is one of the most [...]

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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.