Argentina: China’s New Investment Frontier
December 18th, 2010 Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on China’s increased investment in Argentina.  As the article notes: When China’s largest oil producer looked overseas 14 years ago for places to [...]
Africa: The Final Gold Rush For Consumer Products Companies?
December 12th, 2010 Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on the rising power of consumers in Africa.  As the article notes: “..A new push into Africa is under way. Inspired by improved political and currency [...]
Frontier Markets
December 12th, 2010 Via The Financial Times, a report on one institutional investor’s views on frontier markets.  As the article notes: “…Frontier market valuations have fallen significantly over the [...]
Pipelinestan: TAPI Moves One Step Forward
December 12th, 2010 Via The New York Times, a report that the long-discussed plan to build a regional natural gas pipeline across war-ravaged southern Afghanistan, long thought to be impractical given the dismal [...]
Economic Cost Of A Potential ‘Third World’ War In Africa
November 25th, 2010 Via The Financial Times, an interesting report on the economic cost to Africa of potential renewed conflict in Sudan: “…For foreign investors, frontier markets don’t come much wilder [...]
TAPI’ing Around Quietly In Afghanistan
November 25th, 2010 Via StraightGoods.ca, an interesting look at the Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India (TAPI) pipeline project in Central Asia, from a Canadian perspective: “…The TAPI pipeline [...]

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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.