SoftBank Group’s sale of 5% telco unit stake to raise $2.9 billion

TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp said on Friday its planned sale of 5% in its domestic telco SoftBank Corp would fetch 310.2 billion yen (2.4 billion pounds), as part of a programme to raise $41 billion through asset sales. The Japanese company announced a day before that it would sell 240 million shares in the subsidiary, leaving it with a 62.1% stake in Japan's third-largest wireless carrier

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