Frontier Markets Up The Ante On Political Risk In Mining
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on mining firms’ increased interest in frontier markets.  As the report notes: Mining companies have been busy scouring investment frontiers that [...]
Myanmar: Poised On Cusp Of Growth?
Via USA TODAY, an interesting article on Myanmar’s growth prospects.  As the report notes: In saffron robes and flip-flops, Buddhist monk Ashin Uttama browses the feast of cheap Chinese [...]
Myanmar: Frontier Banking
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Myanmar’s nascent banking sector.  As the article notes: For all the hoopla surrounding Myanmar as the new Wild West following its half-century of [...]
Stop / Start: Myanmar’s Investment Liberalization
Via The Financial Times, a report on Myanmar’s uneven path towards more liberal foreign direct investment policies.  As the article notes: The “will of the people” is not a phrase you hear [...]
North Korea: Authoritarian Capitalism
Via Forbes, commentary on the future of free enterprise in North Korea.  As the article notes: “DOES THE DEATH of Kim Jong Il portend any change in foreign trade and investment with a range of [...]
How the West Is Missing China’s Geopolitical Focus
Courtesy of The Oil and The Glory, an interesting article on how the West is wholly missing China’s geopolitical focus.  As the report notes: On a recent visit to China, Turkmenistan President [...]

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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.