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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Jun 28, 2020 • 9min
Episode 14: Comment and analysis for business and financial markets news w/c June 22nd 2020
This was a week of slow turnarounds, cautious lockdown easing and Wirecard nightmares...
Jun 21, 2020 • 7min
Episode 13: lockdown lifting, pharmaceutical breakthroughs & Apple’s antitrust investigation
In this episode, I give you the latest on what’s going on in the US, China and Europe and some interesting developments in tech, pharmaceuticals and financials - among other things.
Jun 14, 2020 • 7min
Episode 12: retail gloom, the airline industry, electric lorry sparks, food delivery consolidation
Here is my overview of some of the week’s key business and financial news stories. We look at what’s going on in the US, Europe and oil, how the US and UK consumers are feeling, how planes and cars are faring and other exciting developments for Airbnb, Ocado and food delivery consolidation.
Jun 7, 2020 • 9min
Episode 11: George Floyd protests, European bailout and a 5G u-turn
This was a week of US protests that spread around the world, Europe continued with bailout efforts, car sales were on the rise (but for how long?) and the NYSE and NASDAQ signalled listing changes that could have MAJOR repercussions...
May 9, 2020 • 10min
Episode 10: Trump gets feisty with the Chinese, Europe emerges & anything to do with travel suffers
Trump gets feisty with China on trade, Europe emerges further from coronavirus hibernation, we see some “winners” but anything to do with airlines looks like a disaster.
May 3, 2020 • 12min
Episode 9 - relaxing the lockdowns, tech triumph, airline disaster and meat supply chain challenges
In this episode, I give you some lockdown updates, tech industry developments, airline industry nightmares and food industry challenges.
Apr 17, 2020 • 16min
Episode 8: US hope, EU discord, oil price “meh”, Libra’s change, Verizon buys into videoconferencing
Markets are heartened by a potential and cautious reopening of the US, the EU continues to argue about bailout terms for the bloc, US banks have a big week, Facebook makes changes to Libra, Verizon moves into videoconferencing and Airbnb gets even more money
Apr 10, 2020 • 21min
Cautious lockdown easing in Wuhan and Europe, winners and losers, lawyer and accountants’ pay update
In this episode, I take a look at lockdown changes around the world, which industries and companies are pressing for funding, who is benefitting - and who isn’t - from the outbreak and what’s going on at law firms and accountancies regarding pay and survival...
Apr 3, 2020 • 18min
Government and industry co-ordination on the coronavirus and updates on industry winners and losers
This is my roundup of the latest developments in anti-coronavirus efforts as well as a look at which industries and companies are benefiting from the current situation as well as those who are being put in danger.
Mar 27, 2020 • 10min
Episode 5: the world’s fight against coronavirus and some positive developments...
In this week’s episode, I take a look around the world at what various governments are doing to combat the outbreak and take time to consider some of the POSITIVE developments...
