Toshiba Tec shares rise more than 6 percent on sale report
TOKYO (Reuters) - Shares in Toshiba Tec Corp <6588.T> rose more than 6 percent in early Monday trading after a report that Toshiba Corp <6502.T>, the parent, is considering selling shares in the company. Toshiba Corp denied a Nikkei business daily report that it was looking to sell shares in Toshiba Tec, a maker of cash register systems, as it seeks to plug an upcoming $6.3 billion writedown for its U.S. nuclear unit. Toshiba has selected an advisory firm to help find a buyer soon for Toshiba Tec, the paper said. The sale price for the entire 50.02 percent stake in Toshiba Tec would likely be around 100 billion yen ($870 million), the Nikkei said. Toshiba Tec shares were trading at 645 yen, up 5.2 percent from Friday's close, as of 2420 GMT (8:20 p.m. ET). Toshiba is in the middle of the process of selling a majority or all of its stake in the flagship memory chips unit, the world's second-biggest NAND chip producer, which it vales at at least $13 billion. Earlier this month Toshiba sold almost all of its stake in affiliate Toshiba Machine Co <6104.T> for $134 million to raise cash. (Reporting by Chang-Ran Kim and Junko Fujita; Editing by Stephen Coates)
