Peter Watson

Commercial Awareness with Watson’s Daily business and financial news

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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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Episode 10: Trump gets feisty with the Chinese, Europe emerges & anything to do with travel suffers 09.05.2020 10:06

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.

Episode 9 - relaxing the lockdowns, tech triumph, airline disaster and meat supply chain challenges 03.05.2020 12:22

In this episode, I give you some lockdown updates, tech industry developments, airline industry nightmares and food industry challenges.

Episode 8: US hope, EU discord, oil price “meh”, Libra’s change, Verizon buys into videoconferencing 17.04.2020 16:01

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

Cautious lockdown easing in Wuhan and Europe, winners and losers, lawyer and accountants’ pay update 10.04.2020 21:26

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...

Government and industry co-ordination on the coronavirus and updates on industry winners and losers 03.04.2020 17:58

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.

Episode 5: the world’s fight against coronavirus and some positive developments... 27.03.2020 10:20

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...

Episode 4 - coronavirus “winners” and losers 20.03.2020 9:10

This episode catches up with the latest moves by central banks and governments on the outbreak and takes a look at which industries and companies are winning or losing out so far.

Episode 3- A momentous week! 13.03.2020 8:20

This week, I am talking about market carnage, who is suffering and which companies might benefit from the coronavirus as well as why Saudi Arabia appears to want to shoot itself in the foot with oil production.

Commercial Awareness with Watson’s Daily - the week in review ep.2 06.03.2020 14:08

This week I talk about the ongoing effects of the coronavirus, how China is trying to get back to normality, why oil prices are painful and some notable developments for electric cars and batteries. I also look at the prospect for rising food prices because of the recent storms and Impossible Foods cutting wholesale prices.

Watson’s Daily Podcast - Episode 1 27.02.2020 20:16

In this podcast, I take a look back at the business and financial news for the week commencing Feb 24th 2020. I talk about the latest on the Coronavirus and its effects on various economies and industries.