North Korea: Following Vietnam’s Model?
November 2nd, 2007 Stratfor offered an interesting look at North Korea’s economic strategies recently (subscription required), noting that Kim Jong Il himself has suggested that North Korea might use Vietnam as a [...]
China: Banking on Africa
October 31st, 2007 A few interesting articles, courtesy of Bloomberg and The Financial Times, detailing two recent Chinese investments into the African banking sector, namely Industrial & Commercial Bank of China [...]
Pipe Down: A Summary of Central Asia’s Pipeline Wars
October 31st, 2007  As always, an interesting post by Steve Levine, discussing the U.S. failure to match Russia so far in the European pipeline war.  Since I’ve discussed various pipeline (and a few pipe [...]
Vietnam…
October 27th, 2007 A nice reminder from Stockerblog not to forget Vietnam in all the excitement/press related to China, India, etc. As the article points out, there is a lot of activity in Vietnam right now. For [...]
India’s Presence in the Central Asian Energy Market
October 27th, 2007 Via NewEurasia, a report that India ONGC Mittal Energy (a joint venture between oil and gas company ONGC Videsh and steel giant Mittal Investment) acquired a 30 percent stake in an exploration block [...]
Azerbaijan – Projecting Outward
October 27th, 2007  According to a recent Energy Daily report, Azerbaijan – its $21 billion economy expanding at more than triple the rate of China’s in a world of record-high energy prices – has [...]

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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.