Well be live in shanghai. And its been a hard days night but sony finally seals a deal to sell beatles merchandise see you in court well talk to the man looking to revolutionise the way we access legal services. And today as a local hardware shops christmas video starring a two year old has captured peoples hearts and costjust £100 to make we want to know. Are you influenced by christmas video ads . Do they make you buy . Let us know just use the hashtag bbcworklife. Hello and welcome to worklife. If you havent seen that video ad james mentioned, its the nicest thing, i guarantee it. We will show you it later. But starting this morning we start this morning looking at investment for small and medium sized businesses. They are arguably the backbone of any economy but new Research Suggests firms known as sme s are struggling to get investment because they are seen as a risky bet by big banks. Analysis by the experian Credit Rating agency has found there are 1. 6 million sme s in the uk
Great decision rate decisions this week. And gun control on the u. S. Agenda after shootings leaving 30 dead in texas and ohio. Lets get you started with a quick check of market close. It was another day of risk off, not just a day but a week of risk off. We have not seen such losses this whole year. In fact we have not seen such massive selloff since december 2018, before the fed did a uturn and turned dovish grid we have taken Energy Leading the declines, the dow at the lowest level in six weeks, the nasdaq losing a percent or we have the lingering impact of new tariffs on chinese goods imposed by President Trump. We had decent jobs numbers but thel 10year yield around lowest since 2016 as there are more rate cuts factored in. U. S. Futures down. 2 . Lets see how we are setting up in asia. Given that context it wont surprise anyone to see we are looking at a down day in new zealand in a couple of minutes. Off a shade, a quarter of 1 but out of pointing lower chicago. Nikkei futures d