morgan stanley: The Soft Bank Vision Fund has also kicked off investments, with deals ranging from ride-sharing, co-working and robotics to agriculture, cancer detection and autonomous driving. ; Soft Bank will hold investor calls on Sept. 8 for potential U.S. dollar, euro note sales, according to a person familiar with this offering, who is not authorized to speak publicly and asked not to be identified, according to The Japan Times. The Japanese internet giant has mandated Deutsche Bank AG, Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley for the deal. The Tokyo-based company headed by billionaire founder Masayoshi Son is accelerating deal-making around the world, and has been in discussions to combine its U.S. wireless operator Sprint Corp. with a potential partner. Soft Bank's bond issuance swelled since 2013, when it bought Sprint, and the company had net debt of 13.6 trillion 125.4 billion at the end of June. Operating profit at Soft Bank was 479.3 billion in the fiscal quarter ended June 30, topping analysts' projections, as Sprint returned to profit for the first time in three years. That debt is offset by the company's unrealized profits in a plethora of companies, led by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
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