The future of share trading World Business Report - a podcast by BBC World Service

Share trading platforms are sometimes accused of encouraging amateurs to make risky bets. We meet some of the people engaging in share trading on apps like Robinhood, and hear from Bill Brewster, whose partner's cousin Alex Kearns took his own life when he thought he'd lost three quarters of a million dollars on the platform last summer. We also consider what more regulators can do with Barbara Roper, director of investor protection at the Consumer Federation of America. Also in the programme, the brewer Heineken has announced plans to cut around 8,000 jobs. Russ Mould from AJ Bell tells us what's behind the move. Plus, toymaker Mattel says global sales of Barbie dolls are up around 16%, helping the company to its best year of sales since 2017. Frederique Tutt is a global toy industry expert at research and analysis group NDP, and explains why Barbie is proving so popular.

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