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Today is Monday, September 14th.

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Soft Bank might take itself off the public markets,

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big COVID-19 recovery plans this summer. Which country is taking more of a gamble with its spending?

We'll take a look.

I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

The last few years have been a whirlwind for Soft Bank, but the last few weeks in particular

have been a real sprint by the technology group. The FT broke the story that Soft Bank was the

Nasdaq whale. Soft Bank on Sunday said it agreed to sell arm holdings to U.S. Chip company NVIDIA for 40 billion dollars.

This is just four years after Softbanks Masayoshi's son said Arm would be the lynchpin

for the Japanese group's future.

And earlier in the day yesterday, it was reported that Soft Bank executives are once again discussing taking the group private.

The F.T.'s corporate finance and deals editor Arash Masoudi explains why these talks are starting back up now.

What's happened with Soft Bank is that... explains why these talks are starting back up now.

What's happened with Soft Bank is that it sort of underlines

this desire to no longer be operating assets since March

when their share price puked with global stock market routes and Masa himself personally came under

severe pressure. He turned around and said I'm going to embark on this disposal program and what

happened as he's been doing these disposals is the market rally and the share price rallied and essentially everything they've

...