in these stocks investors are angry that robin hood also blocked trades in companies such as amc black berry and nokia which were rising because of the chat group you know when the big man when the quote unquote suits don't get their way they start losing they just shut down the game and change the rules i think it's extremely unfair and this he's put in place to protect the little man from things like this happening so hopefully you know regulators and politicians are taking a strong look at this and they get down to the bottom of it well u.s. politicians and regulators are taking notice republican ted cruz tweeted support for democrat alexandria ocasio cortez's call for an investigation into robinhood actions the u.s. treasury secretary says she's monitoring the situation and massachusetts state regulator wants the new york stock exchange to suspend trading in game stop for 30 days. all right let's introduce our panel joining us from london chief market analyst at a v.a. trade from houston texas josh young the chief investment officer at bison interests and also in london and also in londo

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appear willing to take the risk now propping up other struggling companies like the amc theater chain and black berry threatening wall street institutions and prompting calls for reform of a market increasingly seen as out of touch with main street kristen salumi al jazeera new york. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera a team of investigators sent by the world health organization is preparing to leave quarantine in the chinese city of. looking into the origins of the corona virus covered 19 was 1st detected in late 2019 katrina you as the latest from. talking to some of the team members here in waiting in the hotel behind us including dr brawley just mary and he said that she's feeling quite optimistic that the team is in good spirits and she's the only continues to this is inside the team doing what it can but also she says that the public may need to temper its expectations this is only the very beginning of what is a deep dive into the origin of the war in a virus and to expect any conclusive finding in the next few weeks is unrealistic this could in fact take he is the new

appear willing to take the risk now propping up other struggling companies like the amc theater chain and black berry threatening wall street institutions and prompting calls for reform of a market increasingly seen as out of touch with main street kristen salumi al jazeera new york. this is just there and these are the top stories a team of investigators sent by the world health organization is impairing to leave quarantine in the chinese city of homs looking into the origins of the corona virus covenanted with fast attacked and hot of late 2019 katrina you has the latest from . rocky outside the hotel where they've been for 2.

appear willing to take the risk now propping up other struggling companies like the amc theater chain and black berry threatening wall street institutions and prompting calls for reform of a market increasingly seen as out of touch with main street kristen salumi al jazeera new york. is with bison interests he joins us live from houston texas via skype thank you for your time mr young i just want to quickly make this very clear for people who may not understand so this is a bunch of people banding together online to purposefully push up the price of a stock in reaction to another group of people the wall street institutional investors who usually do the same thing but have been doing but doing it to push down the price of the stock is that right. yeah it kind of so i think i think i would frame it differently game stop had been actually i guess manipulated down there had been a set of investment funds that kind of go from one company to another and aggressively short their stock you know put out kind of negative things about them encourage negative news stories and so game stop shares probably bertuc

appear willing to take the risk now propping up other struggling companies like the amc theater chain and black berry threatening wall street institutions and prompting calls for reform of a market increasingly seen as out of touch with main street kristen salumi al jazeera new york. this is down as there are these are your top stories the team from the world health organization of the.

this decision by the brokers to stop people from trading shares in companies like amc like game stop and also like black berry but it really has been an incredible week what are the reactions to this decision as you said by robin hood where you can invest your users absolutely furious about this because these are companies that have claimed to be in favor of democratizing the financial markets but they're seen here is helping out the big guy by stopping the little ones from competing with them and in the case of robin hood i mean the puns write themselves you know the users are being accused of are accusing them of not behaving like the the english legend and robbing from the rich and giving to the poor but doing the precise opposite there's also been criticism from politicians particularly the united states from both sides the democrats and the republicans saying it's an acceptable what the brokerages of doing because they're preventing small investors from investing meanwhile the hedge funds and the major investors can continue so where do you think things go from here well we should say that robin hood is

appear willing to take the risk now propping up other struggling companies like the amc theater chain and black berry threatening wall street institutions and prompting calls for reform of a market increasingly seen as out of touch with main street kristen salumi al jazeera new york still to come here in the news for you a viral photo of u.s. senator bernie sanders helps grab big bucks for charity. and 2 of the n.b.a.'s top teams muse in what many think could be a preview of the season's finals that's coming up in sports with peter when we come back. time for sport is peter thank you peter a limpet bosses are adamant that holding the tokyo games in july would not be irresponsible much of japan is in a state of emergency because of covert 1001 poll showed 80 percent of the public are in favor of postponing again or canceling but the international olympic committee says it's a case of how not if the games will go ahead they are to release a playbook soon explaining how they plan to get thousands of athletes to compete safely in japan if we would think it would be irresponsible and if we would think the

a number of other companies whose business prospects are pitiful, amc, bed bath and beyond, black berry make devices, they've seen their stocks go up because of this game. big guys betting it goes down, little guys come in, send it up. the toll on powerful hedge funds has been huge. they got hit so hard according to wall street journal it got a $2.75 billion bailout from two other hedge funds. tonight the rookie traders jobs are getting harder because they were trading the stocks using online brokerages like robinhood. now robinhood and others are restricting trades of gamestop. robinhood now says it's going to allow limited purchases of the stock starting tomorrow. this, of course s all of this is igniting a whole new level of outrage with the incoming chair of the senate banking chair and others vowing to investigate what's happening here. outfront now is james, former business reporter for the new yorker, author of the wisdom of crowds. i hope you've read his work. it's always excellent. let me ask you, james. first of all, how did this happen, right? you've got an internet forum tha