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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Oct 12, 2021 • 21min
Episode 315: higher prices dent confidence vs shrinkflation…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, Milena and I talk about how higher prices are hitting consumer confidence and whether shrinkflation is the right way to go for producers…
Oct 11, 2021 • 21min
Episode 314: Netflix vs Kevin the Carrot…#WeAskWatson
In today’s episode, Milena and I talk about Netflix getting back on track with content and how companies may decide to CUT advertising budgets because of supply chain issues…
Oct 8, 2021 • 32min
Episode 313: Here’s our weekly roundup where we reflect on the week’s events…#WatsonsWeeklyRoundup
In this episode, Duncan and I talk about a big week of big events where we rising prices and interest rates, ongoing employee shortages across the board, cratering UK car sales, Facebook’s outage, Evergrande’s ongoing problems and Morrisons’ new direction among other things.
Oct 8, 2021 • 16min
Episode 312: House prices/inflation vs South Korea’s battery supremacy…#WeAskWatson
In this episdoe, India and I talk about the UK housing market and how South Korea’s reliance on imports to make rechargeable batteries could cause problems…
Oct 7, 2021 • 20min
Episode 311: Recovery in the travel industry vs Tesco’s cheap and cheerful Christmas…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, India and I talk about the fragile recovery of the travel industry and Tui’s decision to raise money as well how Tesco sees Christmas shaping up…
Oct 6, 2021 • 22min
Episode 310: Amazon’s new 4-star shop vs Facebook’s indiscretions…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, India and I talk about Amazon’s new shop in Bluewater and the moral dilemmas brought up by the latest revelations on Facebook.
Oct 5, 2021 • 20min
Episode 309: Volvo’s IPO vs Facebook outage…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, India and I talk about Volvo’s upcoming IPO and whether or not there are going to be any major long-lasting effects on Facebook after yesterday’s outage…
Oct 4, 2021 • 22min
Episode 308: Utility consolidation vs prospects for Morrisons…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, India and I talk about what lies in store for UK utilities as well as the prospects for Morrisons under new ownership…
Oct 3, 2021 • 29min
Episode 307: Here’s our weekly roundup where we reflect on the week’s events…#WatsonsWeeklyRoundup
In this episode, Duncan and I talk about the new German leader, fuel nightmares, Evergrande’s slide and Mastercard doing Buy Now Pay Later etc.
Oct 1, 2021 • 20min
Episode 306: Deliveroo “Hop” vs Zoom’s Five9 failure…#WeAskWatson
In this episode, Julia and I talk about Deliveroo’s new rapid grocery delivery service and what lies ahead now that Zoom’s big acquisition has fallen flat…
