Ankara / Bloomberg Short sellers are targeting Turkish Airlines as it presses on with expanding capacity while the country’s tourism industry withers. As much as 13.8 percent of the company’s shares that are available for trading are out on loan to short sellers betting they will fall in value, according to Markit Ltd. That’s the highest on record for ...

  Few analysts following developments at the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) plenary in South Korea expected India’s membership bid to sail through. As the dust settles, what is clear is that Xi Jinping’s China differs considerably from Hu Jintao’s China. The latter did not want to stand alone; the former is on the path to establishing China as the challenger ...

  At the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani discussed the threats posed by “destructive change” and the countless opportunities offered by “creative change” in the Eurasian landscape and its emerging continental economy. He told his counterparts that “our greatest common project is the revival of the Silk Roads,” whose main gateway is ...