Markets Show No Panic Before Poll: Scotland Reality Check
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Two days before Scotland decides whether to exit the U.K., the independence referendum has done little to dent the confidence built up across Britain’s financial markets in the past five years.
While volatility picked up this month as opinion polls showed gains for Scottish nationalists, market charts show the pound is above its five-year average versus the dollar, the FTSE 100 index of shares is within 2 percent of a 14-year high, and yields on 30-year government debt are less than 0.5 percentage point above a record low.