Brazil: Is Carnaval Over?
April 8th, 2012 Via Foreign Policy, a look at Brazil and what some are calling the end of the Brazilian miracle.  As the article notes: When she strides into the White House on Monday, Brazilian President Dilma [...]
Turkey’s Growing Involvement In Central Asia
April 6th, 2012 Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of Turkey’s rise as a regional power in Central Asia: Turkey’s primary rivals in Central Asia, Russia and China, have strategic [...]
China’s Influence in Myanmar
April 6th, 2012 Via STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at China’s enduring influence in Myanmar: China’s Foreign Ministry released a statement today calling on Western powers to lift all sanctions [...]
Myanmar
April 5th, 2012 Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how Myanmar’s reform promises opportunities for overseas investors – but makes locals and neighbors alike wary: Near Yangon’s historic riverfront [...]
Drilling Down On the Iran – Pakistan Pipeline
April 5th, 2012 Via Foreign Policy, a report on the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project: The controversial Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline has become an increasingly problematic issue in the vacillating U.S-Pakistan [...]
YPF: Is The End Near?
April 5th, 2012 Via The Financial Times, a look at how Argentina’s turmoil is affecting its largest oil company, YPF: As chess players know, the queen is the most powerful piece, able to advance a number of [...]

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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.