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BUZZ-CS beams up a Scottish basket

** Credit Suisse (NYSE: CS - news) has created a tradeable basket of stocks designed to provide an instrument to hedge any volatility of turn in sentiment in the run up to the Scottish referendum.

** Based on an index of 100 stocks put together by Paul Marsh of the London Business School and Scott Evans of Walbrook Economics, CS selects the 20 most liquid. bit.ly/1rLG54a

** Basket: http://link.reuters.com/myr52w

** The financials-heavy basket includes RBS (LSE: RBS.L - news) , Aberdeen Asset Management (Other OTC: ABDNF - news) and Standard Life (LSE: SL.L - news) .

** A handful of industrials also find a place: Aggreko , FirstGroup & Stagecoach Group (RM (LSE: RM.L - news) : vikram.subhedar.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)