Press Digest: Financial Times - Aug. 15

CK Infrastructure Holdings

15/08/2024 06:37

Aug 15 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in
the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and
does not vouch for their accuracy.
    
    Headlines
    - UK plans fresh investment in supercomputing despite axing
aid
    - Barclays planned to pull out of Israel's bond auctions
under activist pressure
    - Rail strikes in England near end after unions and UK
government reach deal
    - CK Infrastructure announces secondary listing in London
    
    Overview
    - Britain has insisted it will continue to fund pioneering
artificial intelligence and supercomputing technology despite a
backlash over Sir Keir Starmer's shock decision to scrap support
worth 1.3 billion pounds ($1.67 billion) for projects it
inherited.
    - Barclays  BARC.L  drew up plans to pull out of future
Israeli government bond auctions as it reviewed its exposure to
the country under pressure from pro-Palestinian activists.
    - Britain's train drivers union and the government have
agreed on a pay proposal that could end a long-running
industrial dispute and a series of strikes that have disrupted
rail travel over the last two years.
    -  Hong Kong's CK Infrastructure Holdings  1038.HK  said on
Wednesday it has received approval from the UK's financial
regulatory body for a secondary listing on the London Stock
Exchange.


($1 = 0.7791 pounds)

 (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
 ((globalnewsmonitoring@thomsonreuters.com))