China’s Investment Appetite Turns Towards The Muslim World
Via Fast Company, an article on a $4.5 million investment in Jordan that is only the latest of China’s “development” deals. “…China is ramping up its investments [...]
China in 2020
Via Seeking Alpha, three very interesting maps of China illustrating countries that have equal GDP to Chinese provinces in 2000, 2009 and 2020.  As the maps indicate, in 2000, China’s union of [...]
South Africa: Building a BRIC Foundation With China?
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report that China has invited South Africa to join the Bric group of fast-growing emerging markets – or at least to join one of their meetings.  As the article [...]
India: Russia’ing Its Search For More Oil
Via The Financial Times, an article on India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation’s quest for Russian oil assets, in particular its consideration of an equity tie-up with Sistema, Russia’s [...]
Peru, Chile, and Brazil
Courtesy of Seeking Alpha, a look at Peru, Chile, and Brazil: Global Strategist Jacek Dzierwa has just returned from another research trip to Latin America where he visited Peru, Chile and Brazil. [...]
Frontier Markets
Two new articles focusing on frontier markets.  The first, courtesy of The Financial Times, looks at some of the positive attributes of these investment opportunities: “There’s a clue in the [...]

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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.