Australia's Most-Shorted Stock Has Habit of Burning Bears

There’s probably not a lot of people cheering the fact Flight Centre Travel Group Ltd. is Australia’s best-performing equity today.
Getting burnt by the travel retailer is almost a rite of passage for long-short funds Down Under. The market’s most-shorted stock, Flight Centre has a habit of burning bears, with an improved profit outlook in July and this week’s better-than-estimated earnings triggering stock surges.