News Headlines - 17 September 2014
▽Latest Scottish independence poll suggests yes campaign closing gap | theguardian.com
A new poll released the evening before the Scottish independence referendum put the lead for the no campaign at two percentage points, after four other polls in the past 24 hours indicated that the pro-union side would win more comfortably, with 52% of the vote.
David Cameron has insisted he will not resign if Scotland votes Yes tomorrow, saying his future will be decided soon enough at May’s general election... “My name is not on the ballot paper,” he said... “The question about my future will be decided at the British general election coming soon."
▽Spanish prime minister says a separate Scotland would spend years outside the EU - Telegraph
An independent Scotland would be outside the EU for years while it applied for membership, the Spanish Prime Minister and five former European commissioners have warned.
▽U.S. Gas Prices Are Falling Fast: Time for the Return of the $3 Gallon? - Businessweek
The national average price of regular unleaded, now at $3.38 a gallon, is down 8 percent from the end of June. Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at GasBuddy.com, thinks this year will bring the cheapest autumn gasoline prices since 2010. Last year drivers spent $40 billion at the pump in September, and Kloza thinks that bill will be at least $2 billion lower in 2014. The savings at the pump should help stimulate consumer spending in other parts of the economy.
▽Sony rethinks smartphone strategy amid mounting losses - FT.com
Sony’s decade-long restructuring has already claimed the units that produced televisions and PCs among its victims. Now, what was once described the “next big hope” for its electronics business – smartphones – has joined the houseclearing.
Is it game over for Sony, once the world’s most imitated consumer electronic company?
