
Commercial Awareness with Watson’s Daily business and financial news
Watson’s Daily is the newsletter that improves your COMMERCIAL AWARENESS. In this podcast, the writer of Watson’s Daily talks about the week’s news and its implications. Peter Watson is an ex-stockbroker (13 years at 4 different investment banks in London and Tokyo) who advised some of the world’s biggest financial institutions on the UK, European and Japanese stock markets. He uses this experience to break down and explain key business and financial markets news in an approachable way! He also does the occasional podcast on career-related matters an ex-headhunter.
Latest episodes

Apr 26, 2025 • 54min
Episode 927: Weekly with Ralph - EV battery breakthrough and the future for Tesla...
In this episode, Ralph and I talk about the amazing development announced by CATL - an EV battery that gives you 520km of juice in a charging time of just 5 minutes - and what the future holds for an embattled Tesla

Apr 17, 2025 • 21min
Episode 926: Advertising slowdown vs OpenAI's new social media platform......
In this episode, Harshinii and I talk about the slowdown in advertising spend and the potential new OpenAI social media platform...

Apr 16, 2025 • 20min
Episode 925: Hermes success vs dodgy Nike trainers...
In this episode, Harshinii and I talk about how Hermes has managed to overtake LVMH and whether you really should "cut out the middleman" and buy your Nike trainers direct from the Chinese factories that make them...

Apr 15, 2025 • 24min
Episode 924: UK business confidence vs Neil's new thing...
In this episode, Harshinii and I talk about weakening UK business confidence and Neil Woodford's intriguing new venture...

Apr 13, 2025 • 34min
Episode 923: Weekly with Ralph - tariff-geddon and parallel universes...
In this episode, Ralph and I talk about why Trump changed his mind on tariffs and we discuss whether an alternative universe being built...

Apr 6, 2025 • 39min
Episode 922: Weekly with Ralph - ALL the tariffs and consequences...
Trump caused a massive worldwide kerfuffle with his sweeping tariff announcements this week. Ralph and I chat about what happened and what the consequences might be...

Mar 30, 2025 • 30min
Episode 921: Weekly with Ralph - Trump vs law and the IPO slowdown...
This week Ralph and I discuss Trump taking on the law and whether the IPO pipeline is living up to the hype...

Mar 26, 2025 • 20min
Episode 920: Trump's shocking crypto move...
Did you see today's shocking news about Trump's new stablecoin?? I asked Charlie Morris, crypto and gold expert and CIO of Byte Tree, his thoughts on the president's latest foray into crypto...

Mar 23, 2025 • 37min
Episode 919: Weekly with Ralph - will the US become uninvestable and is Tesla going to die?
In this episode, Ralph and I consider whether the US is becoming uninvestable and whether Tesla is sliding down a very slippery slope...

Mar 12, 2025 • 23min
Episode 917: Trump on education and what's happening to Musk's companies...
In this episode, Gabriele and I talk about Trump's cuts in education and the prospects for Musk's companies...
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