Brussels, 10/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 10 February, EU finance ministers looked at the question of “short selling”. In the context of markets on the downturn, this financial technique consists of betting on values falling. It amounts to selling a share one does not own and then buying it back in the hope that its value will have fallen. At the height of the financial crisis, several member states decided to suspend short selling to put a brake on what they felt was an...