Emerging Gabon
Via Knowledge at Wharton, a look at the opportunity for investors in Gabon, and in Africa as a whole: Knowledge@Wharton: I’d like to start by chatting a little bit about the banking situation [...]
Bye-Bye OPEC?
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at 10 new energy powers that some feel will replace OPEC: “Major new global oil and gas discoveries have energy experts describing a new golden age of [...]
The Stampede Into Myanmar
Via the Emerging Frontiers blog, a look at Myanmar WITH the United States and the European Union suspending sanctions against Myanmar, Western companies are rushing to invest in a country they were [...]
YPF: What’s The New Plan?
Via The Financial Times, a look at Argentina’s plans for YPF: YPF, the Argentine oil company, has a new owner (the Argentine state); a new logo (complete with the Argentine flag) and, as the [...]
Cambodia
Via Leopard Capital, a detailed interview on Cambodia’s investment potential: Over the past 25 years that I’ve been investing in Asia, I‘ve seen numerous countries transform from avoided [...]
Do The BRICs Need Replastering?
Via Goldman Sachs, some commentary by Jim O’Neil on BRICs: In late 2008 and early 2009, there were two reasons why some of us found it relatively easy to go against the prevailing view that 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.