Commercial Awareness with Watson’s Daily business and financial news
Peter Watson
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.
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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...
Mar 11, 2025 • 29min
Episode 916: Obesity drugs and the future for American tourists...
In this episode, Szonja and I talk about Novo Nordisk's disappointing news and how behaviour towards American tourists may change in light of the Trump/Musk onslaught...
Mar 9, 2025 • 29min
Episode 915: Weekly with Ralph and the reawakening of Europe...
In this edition, Ralph and I talk about the reawakening of Europe and why it's SO important to follow what's going on in the world right now!
Mar 6, 2025 • 24min
Episode 914: How Germany, Europe and the UK might finance defence spending......
In this episode, Szonja and I talk about how Europe, Germany and the UK might be able to finance increased defence spending - the new reality!
Mar 6, 2025 • 48min
Episode 913: Negotiation expert schools me in what Trump's ACTUALLY doing...
Last Friday's debacle in the White House showcased Trump in full "negotiation" mode with Zelenskyy. I asked Giles Morgan, founder of Kahvay and negotiation expert, what is actually driving Trump's behaviour. This was a fascinating chat and Giles clarified a lot of things!Follow Kahvay on https://kahvay.com/Sign up to the free negotiation blog on https://blog.kahvay.com/If you want to learn more about how to negotiate go to https://courses.kahvay.com/courses/level-1-negotiation-in-professional-services-and-recruitment(I'm not earning anything from this - I just thought you'd find this useful!)
Mar 1, 2025 • 49min
Episode 912: Weekly with Ralph about Germany's new beginning and WTF is going on with Trump (part 2!)
Ralph and I recorded this pretty much at the same time as Trump humiliated Zelenskyy in front of a world audience (we didn't know this was going on at the time! We only found out afterwards). What we said here turned out to be VERY true 😱...
