The End of the Vietnamese Miracle
Via Foreign Policy, a report on Vietnam’s economic challenges ahead: “…In what was once one of Asia’s most exciting emerging markets, Nguyen Van Nguyen sees only gloom ahead. [...]
Where To Locate Your China Retail? Wake Up And Smell The Coffee…
Via The China Law blog, an interesting article on potential connection between the number of Starbucks (and even other coffee shops) and the “readiness” of that Chinese cities for Western [...]
Mongolia
Via EM PE, a look at Mongolia: In the land of blue skies, a niche investment opportunity awaits for first movers in an unspoiled market of growing SMEs primarily in the infrastructure and services [...]
Post Election, Libya Focuses On Investment
Via The Financial Times, a commentary on Libya’s investment outlook following its first free election in decades: Libya’s first free election in six decades is an important step to get the [...]
Mexico: Numero Uno In LatAm?
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at Mexico’s potential over the coming decade: Forget the Bric countries or even just Brazil, the sweetheart of international investors over the past few [...]
China And India Unite On Energy
Via The Diplomat, analysis of the growing energy ties between China and India: On June 19, 2012 India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) and the China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) signed a [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.