Zimbabwe: Point of No or Full Return?
June 29th, 2008 Via Public Radio’s excellent Marketplace program, an interesting look at investment interest in Zimbabwe, a country whose economy has been in free fall since 2000 when Mugabe endorsed a violent [...]
Lukoil, Cuba, and Venezuela
June 27th, 2008 As adroitly analyzed in Stratfor (subscription required), Russian oil firm LUKoil’s plans to purchase a refinery in Cuba are on hold because of the difficulty of investing in crude production [...]
Gazprom’s Vision
June 27th, 2008 As reported by The Financial Times, Gazprom recently set out a vaulting vision of its future status as the world’s most powerful energy company.  As the article notes: “…Alexey [...]
Modern Day Silk Road
June 26th, 2008 As reported by New Eurasia.net, a new Silk Road seems to be in the offing.  The article notes: “…[World Bank President] Bob Zoellick used his three-day trip to Kazakhstan to announce a [...]
Russia’s Gas Market
June 26th, 2008 Via The Financial Times, an interesting look the future of the Russian gas market as the long-awaited natural gas price liberalization slowly begins to take hold in that country.  As the article [...]
Iran
June 26th, 2008 Via Arabian Business, an interesting look at Iran’s petroleum and shipping sectors.  As the article notes: “…According to most independent analysis, Iran has proven oil reserves [...]

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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.