Betting On Mexico’s Middle Class Kids
Via The Financial Times, an interesting look at consumer demographics of Mexico: Who wants to bet on the future of Mexico’s domestic economy? With private-sector economists revising down their 2011 [...]
China’s CNPC Close To Afghan Oil Deal
Via The Globe and Mail, a report that CNPC, the Chinese energy company, is poised to win the first oilfield to be tendered in Afghanistan since the U.S. ousted the Taliban in revenge for sheltering [...]
Africa: Miscommunciation With China
Courtesy of Africa-Asia Confidential, a reporton how Chinese communications projects are encountering legal problems from East Africa down to southern Africa: Uganda may miss the East African [...]
OPEC: Venezuela Is Now The World’s Top Oil Producer
Via Celsias, a report that The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, a notoriously conservative organization, has stated that Venezuela now has the world’s largest oil reserves, even [...]
At The Pump, Ready To Gas Up: China’s Oil Groups Ready For More Deals
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting look at how China’s oil groups are ready for more deals:   Sinopec reported a 12 per cent rise in net profit, to Rmb41bn, in the first half of [...]
North Korea, Russia Benefit from Potential Natural Gas, Railway Deals
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting report on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s visit with Russian leaders where they will likely discuss a railway project and a [...]

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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.