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
May 6, 2022 • 22min
Episode 464: Peloton’s quandary vs an opportunity for Shopify…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, Apolloniya and I talk about Peloton’s future plans and a possible opening for Shopify while eBay and Etsy are sleeping…
May 5, 2022 • 22min
Episode 463: “Banter” lawsuits vs Boohoo/Joules…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, Apolloniya and I talk about the increasing prevalence of “banter” lawsuits and who will win out of Boohoo and Joules, who have been through a rough patch recently…
May 4, 2022 • 23min
Episode 462: BP/windfall taxes vs car sharing…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, Apolloniya and I talk about potential windfall taxes for the oil and gas industry and whether car-sharing is still a “thing”…
May 3, 2022 • 31min
Episode 461: Apple’s EU lawsuit vs supermarket/farmer wars…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, Apolloniya and I talk about EU vs Apple and the effect of the supermarket price war on farmers…
Apr 30, 2022 • 36min
Episode 460: Ralph and I chat about some of the week’s big themes…#WatsonsWeeklyRoundup
In this episode, Ralph and I talk about the big week we’ve just had in tech, but we also talk about banks and supermarkets. This is our first episode that you can also SEE as we did this as a video as well 👍
Apr 29, 2022 • 17min
Episode 459: Germany’s delicate situation vs Amazon’s slowing momentum…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, Duncan and I talk about how Germany and Austria are getting around sanctions to pay for Russian energy and whether Amazon will recover from a slowdown in momentum…
Apr 28, 2022 • 23min
Episode 458: The waning of Spotify vs another boom for warehousing…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, Duncan and I talk about how Spotify is losing steam and what it could do to remedy this as well as why warehousing demand is likely to continue going into the end of the year (and beyond!)
Apr 27, 2022 • 19min
Episode 457: Ford’s new electric pickup truck vs Maersk’s massive success…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, Duncan and I talk about Ford’s Great New Hope and why shipping container giant Maersk may be attracting unwanted attention…
Apr 26, 2022 • 23min
Episode 456: unionisation in the US and UK vs Musk buying Twitter…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, Duncan and I talk about the reasons for increased unionisation and the implications of Elon Musk buying Twitter…
Apr 24, 2022 • 43min
Episode 455: Weekly roundup of some of the big themes…#WatsonsWeeklyRoundup
In this episode, Ralph and I discuss some of the week’s big themes…
