Why Wal-Mart Went Shopping in Africa
October 1st, 2010 Courtesy of The Harvard Business Review, a thoughtful analysis on Wal-Mart’s African acquisition and strategy.  As the article notes: “…Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest [...]
Top Performing Emerging Markets Through Q3 2010
September 29th, 2010 Via The Global Guru, an interesting analysis of the top performing international markets thus far in 2010.  As the article notes: “…Using figures published in Britain’s Economist [...]
Mongolia: Opening a New National Stock Exchange
September 27th, 2010 Via The New York Times, a news that Mongolia is on the verge of opening a new national stock exchange: “…The Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan may have been globalization’s most ardent [...]
The Next BRIC Thing (2)
September 20th, 2010 Via The Financial Times, an interesting article on the seemingly endless competition to coin a catchy new group name for some or all of the emerging markets.  As the report notes: “…The [...]
Something To AGRI On…
September 16th, 2010 Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on the joint agreement between Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania and Hungary to construct the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania Interconnector (AGRI), a [...]
The Next BRIC Thing…
September 12th, 2010 Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting article on the Next 11, nations with the potential to follow the economic growth trajectory of the BRICs.  As the report notes: “…To many, [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.