Resolute Faces $160 Million Demand From Mali as CEO Detained
November 15th, 2024 Via Bloomberg, an article on Resolute Mining’s crisis in Mali: Holohan and two colleagues have been held since late last week Government wants mining firms to renegotiate economic terms Mali is [...]
World Fears a Wider Trade War. Malaysia Sees an Opportunity.
November 15th, 2024 Via the New York Times, a report on how – with Donald J. Trump promising tariffs – Malaysia hopes a deal with Singapore for greater economic integration will strengthen its role as a [...]
Vietnam’s Booming Korea Towns
November 15th, 2024 Via Nikkei Asia, an interesting look at Vietnam’s booming Korea Towns: Peter Jung’s very niche enterprise would have been unimaginable just a short time ago in Ho Chi Minh City. Last year [...]
The Belt and Road Isn’t Dead. It’s Evolving.
November 14th, 2024 Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at China’s evolving BRI in Latin America, where China is saying goodbye to big bets and bridges in favor of a new approach: Chinese President Xi Jinping [...]
Why The Africa Energy Bank Is A Bad Idea
November 14th, 2024 Via African Arguments, commentary on the planned Africa Energy Bank, a $5B oil bank set to be launched by a coalition of African oil producers: At COP29, the UN Secretary General Antonio Gutteres [...]
Kelp Blue Plans to Issue Africa’s First Corporate Blue Bond
November 13th, 2024 Via Bloomberg, an article on an innovative blue finance initiative in Namibia: Bond will be listed on the Namibia Stock Exchange in 2025 The seaweed startup seeks to raise $173 million by 2028 Kelp [...]

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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.