16/03/2020 (Agence Europe) – After a first set of recommendations to financial players last week (see EUROPE B12445A17), the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) took, on Monday 16 March, a new temporary decision to increase transparency on short selling – a stock market technique that consists of betting on the fall of a share – to calm the financial markets in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. From Monday and for 3 months, it indicates that holders of net short...