Afghan Iron Ore And India’s Resource Diplomacy
July 7th, 2011 Via The Financial Times, an interesting article on the global competition for access to Afghanistan’s iron deposits: “…India is well-versed in resource diplomacy. Just a day after [...]
China Winning the Race for Central Asia’s Energy Riches
June 30th, 2011 Via the CleanTechies blog, a report on how China is presently winning the race for Central Asia’s energy riches: Many western analysts have described the post-Soviet tussle for Caspian and [...]
Kyrgyzstan’s Gold Rush On Ice
June 30th, 2011 Via Reuters, a very interesting article on the difficulties of investing in Kyrgyzstan: The bus loaded with supporters of a planned $100 million mine had just left its remote Kyrgyz village when a [...]
Cambodia’s (Financial) Return
June 5th, 2011 Via The Financial Times, an interesting article on the increased interest in Cambodia.  As the article notes: Cambodia, once regarded as a spill-over investment from Vietnam, is showing signs of [...]
J.P. Morgan’s Hunt For Afghan Gold
May 28th, 2011 Via Fortune, an interesting article on J.P. Morgan’s hunt for Afghan gold: Villagers assembled for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the gold mine in Qara Zaghan. The U.S. government estimates that [...]
Investors Urged To Note Opportunities In Iraq
May 26th, 2011 Via The Financial Times, an interesting article on investment opportunities in Iraq: “…Mohammed al-Hashemi remembers how excited his mother was when she bought shares in the Baghdad [...]

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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.