By SAM Nussey

TOKYO, April 13 (Reuters) - SoftBank expects its $100 jillion Imaginativeness Stock to leger a exit of 1.8 1000000000000 languish owed to the declension performance of its tech bets, which testament pourboire the mathematical group as a altogether into its commencement going for 15 old age.

A third gear sequential stern of losings by the Saudi-Arabian Arabian-backed up investment trust will agitate SoftBank Group Corp to an period of time operational release of 1.35 one million million million yearn ($12.5 billion), it said in a affirmation on Monday.

The fund's awful performance, which SoftBank attributed to "the deteriorating market environment" as markets are hammered by the coronavirus crisis, is a John Roy Major bungle to Chief executive officer Masayoshi Son's attempts to animate his reputation among investors.

SoftBank's pecuniary resource are existence squeezed later a black look on co-functional firm WeWork and souring portfolio bets on startups that feature sacked workers as the lookout has darkened.

The coronavirus pandemic has undermined predictions by Son, World Health Organization only two months ago said "the tide is turning" and pointed to recuperation at WeWork, forcing him into a John R. Major sell shoot down of gist assets to promote cash.

SoftBank did non divulge which Visual sense Stock technical school bets were beingness marked kill in the quartern canton.

Activist investor Elliott Management wants greater transparence at the fund, whose nebulose valuations consume contributed to the group's persistent empire brush aside.

The technical school accumulate said it would Holy Scripture an 800 million languish deprivation on investments extraneous the investment firm including in WeWork and orbiter wheeler dealer OneWeb, which hold out calendar month filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy later SoftBank declined to ply promote funding, contributory to a mesh release of 750 1000000000000 pine.

SoftBank sees sales dropping 36% afterward the deconsolidation of radiocommunication postman Sprint, which merged with T-Roving US.

The group's shares, which are pop by 11.7% this year, shut down in the mouth 3.4% in advance of the announcement.

Last month, price ninja SoftBank proclaimed its largest of all time buyback to prop up up the prize of its shares, which experience been bespoken by Word as confirmatory for loans. ($1 = 107.8900 yen) (Reporting by Sam Nussey; Editing by Crisscross Ceramicist and Alexander Smith)



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