I will not be exaggerating if I say that the latest offer from VOLVO Trucks has turned my life 180 degrees upside down. Just as once the profession of a truck driver allowed me to see most of our vast country, so now, I am discovering the world. A Schengen visa, a short flight, and here I am, together with a company of journalists from world, are already met by a VOLVO representative in the arrival's hall at Gothenburg…

With time on her hands, 25 year-old Londoner Andreea Ion joined two stock-trading websites at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic.

"My boyfriend and I were caught in this really small London flat, and just thinking we have to do something, or we're going to go crazy here," she recalls.

Over the last year, younger investors like Miss Ion have flooded online share-trading platforms, including eToro, Freetrade, and Robinhood.

She and her boyfriend Jamie now post together…