Colombia: Different Than Brazil
Via The Financial Times, a look at Colombia: With his deep, chanting voice and contagious laughs he can convince you everything is going according to plan. “We have systematically and purposefully [...]
Indonesia’s Consumer Power
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Indonesia: Is there no stopping the Indonesian consumer? Second quarter GDP figures out on Monday showed the economy growing 6.4 per cent year on year, up [...]
Multinationals Reevaluating Growth Targets in Latin America
Via Emerging Markets Insight, a look at South America: Weaker regional growth in the first half of the year has driven multinationals to reevaluate their growth targets for 2012 as Argentina’s [...]
The Sudans Miss Agreement Deadline, But An Interim Oil Deal Likely
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on the petroleum politics between Sudan and South Sudan.  As the report notes: Although today’s African Union (AU)-U.N. deadline for reconciliation [...]
When Russia Joined The Kurdistan Oil Rush…
Courtesy of Oil & Glory, a look at Russia’s interest in Kurdistan: After four unanswered triumphs by autonomy-minded Kurdistan, the ball is firmly in Baghdad’s court — it must [...]
OilCo. Nation: Will Oil Companies Provide Kurdistan Its De Facto Statehood?
Courtesy of Foreign Policy’s Oil & Glory blog, an interesting commentary on the lure of Kurdistan for foreign oil companies: Less than a year after the departure of U.S. troops from Iraq, [...]

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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.