Just to cite two examples from Tuesday: Saveology is opening in its 29th market in Cincinnati and small business daily deal site RapidBuyr has acquired Office Arrow.
She and other MPs argued that the idea is very much in the spirit of the Big Society to help small business and social enterprises and that there was a danger of the market for Green Deal energy improvements being dominated by a few corporate big boys.
Such a deal would help Chrysler bring badly needed small cars into its showrooms while helping Fiat move into the American market with the Alfa Romeo brand and an update of its Fiat 500.
"The mortgage market has reached a plateau with no real movement in the number of deal for borrowers with a small deposit, " said Michelle Slade at Moneyfacts.
The bottom line is there is a great deal of headline risk and economic uncertainty still out there, and while we will look for a small bounce the market still feels heavy.