Don’t Cry For Me: Argentina Clobbers ‘Big Oil’
Via The Financial Times, a report on the Argentinian government’s decision to scrap an incentives plan to encourage big oil companies to produce and refine more.  As the article notes: As [...]
Can The Afghan Economy Be Saved?
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at Afghanistan’s economy and economic future.  As the article notes: Whipsawed by a long-drawn U.S.-led military operation and a decade of erratic [...]
TAPI Pipeline: Pakistan Proposes Uniform Transit Fee
Via The Express Tribune, an article on Pakistan’s recent proposal of a uniform transit fee for the import of gas under the $7.6 billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas [...]
Indonesia: An Investment Haven?
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at Indonesia: Those hoping to get away from it all in Indonesia usually think of Bali. But Jakarta’s financial markets are arguably as much of a haven for [...]
Asian Countries See Growth Deteriorating in Q1
Courtesy of Emerging Market Insights, an updated look at economic forecasts for Asia: Countries across Asia are beginning to see their growth deteriorate as ongoing problems in the eurozone, [...]
Emerging Markets All (A)Twitter…
Via The Financial Times, an interesting look at emerging markets’ uptake of Twitter: “…With Facebook’s impending IPO promising to inflate the wealth of 10 of its shareholders by [...]

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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.