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.
Episodes
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Aug 16, 2020 • 7min
Episode 29: Trump vs TikTok, Epic Games vs Apple and real estate changes #Watson’s Weekly
In this week’s roundup, I talk about some tech skirmishes, EV developments and real estate trends
Aug 13, 2020 • 17min
Episode 28: Office property trends and working from home #WeAskWatson
In this episode, George and I talk about office property trends and the impact of working from home in industries including transport and construction. We also talk about the impact this can have on younger employees.
Aug 12, 2020 • 12min
Episode 27: BP and the office market #WeAskWatson
In this episode, George and I are in agreement for once about the BP story in today’s Watson’s Daily. We discuss what’s going on for BP but also what the wider implications are for offices around the world
Aug 10, 2020 • 15min
Episode 26: Amazon mall/warehouses vs UK high street banks #WeAskWatson
Today, George and I discuss the merits of Amazon potentially turning malls into distribution centres and why traditional banks still seem to hold all the cards...
Aug 9, 2020 • 8min
Episode 25: Trump poked the dragon and TikTok’s potential Microsoft future #Watson'sWeekly
This episode covers Trump and tech, TikTok, more gloom on the UK high street and some of the latest coronatrends #Watson’sWeekly
Aug 5, 2020 • 15min
Episode 24: BP vs Disney #WeAskWatson
In this episode, George and I discuss our favourite stories from today’s Watson’s Daily.
Aug 4, 2020 • 14min
Episode 23: TikTok ‘n travel chat #WeAskWatson
In this episode I talk with George about advances in the TikTok story and continued nightmares in the travel sector
Aug 3, 2020 • 12min
Episode 22: It’s TikTok time! #WeAskWatson
Today, we talk about TikTok and what’s going on with Trump, Microsoft and ByteDance...
Aug 2, 2020 • 8min
Episode 21: US GDP crash, TikTok drama and BoJo’s fast food ad ban
Big Tech got a telling off this week by Congress, Trump got shirty about TikTok, BoJo announced fast food ad bans and working from home continues to affect out daily lives and outlook.
Jul 30, 2020 • 11min
Episode 20: Spotify vs Video On Demand #WeAskWatson
George and I pick out what we think are the most impactful stories of the day. Who wins today? Apologies for my sound quality - we’ll get it right soon 😀
