Buying Behaviors of Emerging Middle Classes
Courtesy of Kellogg Insight, some commentary on how consumers in developing nations choose their brands: A key feature of the modern world is the “emerging middle class”—the demographic group [...]
Nigeria: A Rugged Road To High Returns
Via Reuters, a look at Nigeria’s investment potential: Bomb blasts, gun attacks, airline crashes, kidnappings, industrial-scale oil theft, armed robberies and fraud costing billions of dollars. [...]
As Exxon Mobil Weighs Oil Bid, Afghans Move Closer To A Foreign Investment Goal
Via The New York Times, a report on the latest battle of global and regional bulls over Afghanistan’s potential oil and gas riches. The country’s Ministry of Mines recently announced [...]
Complexities of Future Energy Investment in Libya
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), some very interesting analysis of what Libya’s upcoming elections may mean for international investors: Libya’s citizens will head to the [...]
Can Mongolia Avoid Nigeria’s Mistakes?
Via The Globe and Mail, an article examining Mongolia’s commodity boom: In much of the developing world, natural resources seem to offer a handy way out of poverty. But they also present a [...]
Africa’s True Mobile Revolution: Yet to Start
Via the Harvard Business Review, an interesting commentary on the potential for mobile-enabled growth in Africa: The United States economy is nine times the size of Africa’s, but Africa has [...]

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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.