South Africa ’s power cuts are serious. There is no doubt about that. A contact, who recently returned from a business trip to Johannesburg, says outages were happening for between two and four hours a day.

They look to snatch a profit of around $42 billion…and we can all have a taste.

It may be a neighbour of Zimbabwe, but Botswana is not the basket-case you might expect. In fact, it is anything but! In the forty years since diamonds were first found there, Botswana has had a facelift that most countries on the continent can only dream of.

Why? Because it could make us all rich. Oil is now just a whisker shy of $120 – some even think it will hit $150 this year. So, forget the bleating about pain at the pump – the rising price of black gold should be a shot in the arm for the Profit Hunter portfolio.

There are lots of reasons why a small company share can go up in price quickly. Usually it’s an innovative new product, a new market, or, in some cases, a sudden change in the market value of a good, product, or service.

Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) beat estimates up and down Wall Street with a 13% jump in first-quarter profit that was largely driven by booming international sales.

As the home to 34 of the world’s 50 least-developed countries, Africa is the poorest and least-developed continent on the planet. It’s 11.7 million square miles of desert and jungle, with little in between.

As the slowdown in the West intensifies, emerging markets continue to perform. Three of the top 10 global IPOs were Chinese, and Chinese and Indian companies between them raised a whopping $12.6 billion over the first quarter.

The new story on China and commodities is a lot like the old story on China and commodities. The Australian reports China is eyeing a large stake in the world’s largest diversified commodity producer, BHP Billiton. It’s the latest in China’s enormous effort to lock up iron ore, copper, zinc, oil, and uranium deposits for the next few decades.

Look out… here comes $1 trillion. Arab investors are planning on increasing their assets by over $1.7 trillion over the next four years. And an astonishing amount of that is going to end up on our doorstep.