Brazil to Join the Battle for Africa’s Energy Riches
Via OilPrice.com, an interesting report on Brazil’s increased interest in Africa’s energy resources: In October Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff made a state visit to Africa, consisting [...]
The Case For Investing in Gems
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on the investment potential of Global Emerging Markets (GEMs): In fact, emerging markets experienced strong inflows right through to December 2010, with an [...]
Russia’s High Stakes Energy Geopolitics
Via Global Research, a report on Russia’s energy geopolitics and the opening of Nord Stream: On November 7 the first of two pipelines for Nord Stream, the huge Russian-German gas pipeline [...]
China’s African Safari: Hitting Bumpy Ground
Via The Diplomat, an interesting look at China’s investment in Africa and how its unwillingness to recognize changing political realities there may prove to undo some of its African business [...]
The New Silk Road?
Via The Diplomat, an article on the United States’ hopes that a combination of trade and infrastructure can help steer Afghanistan away from unrest – and Russia.  As the report notes: The [...]
Look South, Not East
Via Parag Khanna, an interesting commentary on his view that – while the Obama administration is turning to Asia for the defining competition of the next century –  if the United States [...]

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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.