Bloomberg It’s Australia’s most-shorted stock, but only one of the 10 analysts covering it considers it a sell. Meet Aconex Ltd., a Melbourne-based company whose software helps architects and developers work together in the cloud. If you believe the sell-side, shares will rise 10 percent over the next year. Bears, however, have a completely different opinion: their bets against …

  HONG KONG / AP World stocks were mixed on Thursday, with Asian indexes falling as Chinese authorities tightened liquidity in the financial system of the world’s second largest economy. Germany’s DAX edge up 0.1 percent to 12,212 and France’s CAC 40 was flat at 5,067. Britain’s FTSE 100 shed 0.3 percent to 7,353. US shares were poised for a …

  DUBAI / Reuters Most stock markets in the Gulf ended the week on a slightly positive footing on Thursday with Kuwait’s index managing to rebound from heavy losses earlier in the session. The Kuwaiti index swung 0.3 percent in a volatile session, after dropping as much as 2.0 percent earlier in the day as some shares which had pulled …