New Global Hot Spots For Investment
Via Fortune, an interesting article on emerging markets: Today, essentially two global economies exist side by side. The U.S. and its advanced peers continue to struggle with high unemployment, idle [...]
Russia In Africa: An Alternative To China’s Investment Monopoly?
Via WorldCrunch, a report on Russia’s increasing investment interest in Africa.  As the article notes: “…The Soviet Union was once a major economic and political power in Africa. [...]
The Next Frontier?
Two interesting articles on emerging and frontier markets.  The first, via GuruFocus, takes a look at a new ETF focused on frontier markets: Every investor should allocate a portion of his or her [...]
Afghan Rail Plan To Boost Mineral Exports
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on the Asian Development Bank’s interest in raising $1bn to expand a newly-completed stretch of railway in Afghanistan into a countrywide network to [...]
Kazakh Oil Production
Via Early Warning, an interesting look at Kazakhstan: The above shows Kazakh oil production (red, left scale) and the ratio of Kazakh proved oil reserves to annual production (blue, right scale). [...]
Emerging Markets: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Via Beyond Bulls & Bears, an interesting article on the state of emerging markets today: “Almost every market move these days seems to be tied to the latest headline coming from Europe. And [...]

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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.