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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Jan 13, 2022 • 22min
Episode 377: Philips’ potentially costly recall vs Apple-related meta-excitement…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, Duncan and I talk about a tricky product recall from Philips and the metaverse possibilities for Apple…
Jan 12, 2022 • 24min
Episode 376: Supermarket price wars vs the recruitment frenzy…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, Duncan and I talk about Lidl now throwing its hat into the ring on keeping grocery prices low as well as who will benefit most from the ongoing hiring frenzy…
Jan 11, 2022 • 41min
Episode 375: HOW TO SORT YOUR FINANCES…#WatsonsChats
In this special episode, I interview my wife, Vicki Watson, who is a chartered financial planner, on how to help YOU to sort out your finances. I thought that this might be particularly helpful to those of you who may have made related New Year’s Resolutions!
Jan 11, 2022 • 20min
Episode 374: Fly Now Pay Later vs rich getting richer…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, Duncan and I discuss the growth of Fly Now Pay Later (“Klarna for your ‘olidays”) and how the rich are getting richer…
Jan 10, 2022 • 24min
Episode 373: Ikea’s vaccine stance vs how to resolve the employee skills shortage…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, Duncan and I talk about Ikea’s rules on unvaccinated staff and how to tackle the ongoing skills shortage among the workforce…
Jan 9, 2022 • 51min
Episode 372: How Watson’s Daily and the Commercial Law Academy came into being…#WatsonsChats
In this episode, Jaime interviews Jake Schogger and I about our respective backgrounds and the journeys we’ve taken so far with our start-ups. There have been highs and lows and we talk about why we do all this and how we started working together! For more detail on Jake’s experiences of setting up businesses - and how to avoid the mistakes he’s made - check out https://www.commerciallaw.academy/courses/launching-a-business
Dec 21, 2021 • 41min
Episode 371: I ask an expert questions about CRYPTOCURRENCY! #WatsonsChats
In this episode, I am joined by the Chief Investment Officer of ByteTree Asset Management Charlie Morris to talk about CRYPTOCURRENCY. If you want to be enlightened about crypto and its future have a listen to our conversation!
Dec 19, 2021 • 55min
Episode 370: Here’s our last weekly roundup of 2021! #WatsonsWeeklyRoundup
In this episode, Ralph and I cover a range of topics from the week including the effects of Omicron on the economy, the ongoing flow of M&A deals and, of course, inflation. If you’ve always wondered about inflation and don’t quite understand it, you need to listen to this podcast because Ralph does a very good explanation for you!
Dec 17, 2021 • 22min
Episode 369: Just Eat rapid delivery vs Bank of England’s interest rate hike…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, Xenia and I talk about Just Eat’s new deal with Asda and the implications of yesterday’s interest rate rise…
Dec 16, 2021 • 23min
Episode 368: EV subsidy cut vs the pub/restaurant blues…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, Xenia and I talk about the latest EV subsidy cut and whether January will actually be as bad as leisure industry bosses are predicting…
