Iran Forgets India and Keeps Pitching Peace Pipeline to Pakistan
Via GreenProphet, an interesting article on Iran’s efforts to woo Pakistan to join in a natural gas “peace” pipeline project.  As the report notes:   Iran, becoming more [...]
Myanmar: An Outcast With Assets
Via The Financial Times, an article on Myanmar, a pariah state taking tentative steps to attract foreign investors: “…They have decided to change. It’s not what we called for, but there [...]
Venezuela: A Tale of Potential and Peril
From Emerging Markets Insight, a report on Venezuela’s investment promise and peril: Venezuela presents a major challenge for MNCs who recognize the country’s market potential and high profit [...]
Zambia: Striking The Dragon
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting article on recent strikes at Chinese-owned mines in Zambia.  As the report notes: Zambia, the landlocked country in southern Africa that is the [...]
Where China Meets India: The Improbably Bright Future of Myanmar
Via the New York Times, a review of an interesting book focused on Myanmar.  As the article notes: “…As economies and societies all around them have flourished, two countries have been [...]
The Geopolitics of Oil Refining: China’s Entry into a Venezuelan-Brazilian Oil Deal
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on China’s support of a faltering deal between Venezuelan state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and Brazilian energy [...]

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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.