Press Digest: Financial Times - Sept 26

Harland & Wolff group

26/09/2024 03:40

Sept 26 (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
    
    - Starmer and von der Leyen to hold talks on resetting UK-EU
relations
    
    - Rightmove rejects third offer from Rupert Murdoch-owned
REA
    
    - Britain presses Spanish group to bid for Harland & Wolff’s
UK shipyards
    
    - Boeing's supply chain shudders as workers walk and
production slows
    
    - OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati to leave in
latest shake-up
    
    Overview
    
    Keir Starmer will visit Brussels next week to meet European
Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, and launch the start
of talks about what he hopes will be a "reset" of the UK’s
post-Brexit relationship with the EU.
    
    Rightmove  RMV.L  said on Wednesday it had rejected a third
offer from Australian rival REA Group  REA.AX , describing the
bid as "unattractive".
    
    The UK government is seeking to persuade the Spanish defence
company Navantia to bid for four shipyards owned by Harland &
Wolff  HARL.L , as ministers try to avoid job losses at the
struggling British shipbuilder.
    
    Spirit AeroSystems  SPR.N , Boeing's  BA.N  struggling
supplier, will begin furloughs in three weeks if a strike at its
biggest customer continues, in a signal of how the work stoppage
in Washington is rippling through the aerospace supply chain.
    
    Mira Murati, Microsoft-backed  MSFT.O  OpenAI's chief
technology officer, is one of several employees leaving the
company, triggering a leadership shake-up at the AI start-up as
it discusses changing its corporate structure.

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