EDINBURGH, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Scottish support for independence rose one percentage point to 48 percent, a Survation poll for the Scottish Daily Mail showed on Tuesday. The poll showed Scottish support for staying in the United Kingdom on 52 percent, excluding undecided voters, the newspap
Read moreEDINBURGH, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Scottish support for independence has risen one percentage point to 48 percent, an Opinium poll for the Daily Telegraph newspaper showed on Tuesday. The poll showed Scottish support for staying in the United Kingdom on 52 percent, down from 53 percent from its
Read moreLONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Support for independence in Scotland has risen three percentage points to 48 percent, an ICM poll for the Scotsman newspaper showed on Tuesday, two days before a referendum on whether Scotland should split from the United Kingdom. The poll showed support among Sc
Read moreBAKU, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's oil exports fell 1.8 percent year on year in the first eight months of 2014, a source at the State Statistics Committee said on Tuesday, driven by declines at fields operated by BP. The committee source said Azerbaijan exported 22.788 million tonnes of
Read more* London pledges Scotland health spending powers * Nationalist response: Scots are not daft; why not before? * PM Cameron warns a breakaway vote would be irreversible * Salmond: Scotland's future should be in Scotland's hands * Opinion polls expected on final day of campai
Read moreLONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - BP will cut around 275 staff and contractor jobs in its Alaska operations in early 2015 following the sale of its interests in four oil fields in the North Slope area, it said on Tuesday. BP, one of the largest oil producers in Alaska, last April announced the sa
Read moreUK stocks opened in the red on Tuesday as investors continued to tread cautiously ahead of a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decision and vote on Scottish independence. Investor appetite for risk was also limited ahead of some closely-watched economic data during the session, namely UK inflatio
Read moreEDINBURGH, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Britain promised to guarantee Scotland's high levels of state funding, granting Scots control over healthcare spending in a last-ditch attempt to shore up support for the United Kingdom before Thursday's vote on independence. With polls showing the decision on
Read moreMOSCOW, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Russia's government "on the whole" has approved the investment programme of the country's top oil producer Rosneft, which has been hit by Western sanctions, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich told reporters on Tuesday. He declined to reveal the investment pr
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