BRICS Keep Growing In A Multipolar World
Via Geopolitical Economy, commentary on the recent BRICS held a summit in Kazan, Russia in October 2024, where it expanded with 13 “partner nations”, after adding four new members. These [...]
Johor and Malaysia’s Data Center Boom 
Via The Diplomat, a report on the massive ramp-up in Malaysian data centers which is attracting foreign investment, but infrastructure challenges persists: Due to the ongoing China-U.S. geopolitical [...]
China Offers Taliban Tariff-Free Trade, Inches Closer To Regime
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on the Taliban efforts to find foreign investors willing to help it diversify its economy and profit from its mineral wealth, but Afghanistan exported no commodities to [...]
Djibouti’s Alleged Ties to Iranian Proxies Stir Global Concerns Amid Red Sea Crisis
Via Modern Diplomacy, a report on Djibouti’s support for Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and other Iranian-backed actors: Djibouti, a small but strategically significant country located at the [...]
BRICS Runs Into a Wall
Via Geopolitical Futures, commentary on the latest BRICS summit in Russia which offered familiar refrains, but few concrete proposals: For leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, the annual [...]
Vietnam’s VinFast Calls Philippines ‘Important’ For Its Global Expansion
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on VinFast’s interest in the Philippines: The Philippines and its relatively nascent electric vehicle market offer VinFast an important growth opportunity, the head of [...]

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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.