Publishing group Pearson has announced it is to sell the Financial Times Group to Japanese media firm Nikkei for £844m in cash.

培生出版集团已经宣布将《金融时报》集团以8.44亿英镑出售给日本资讯经济传媒公司。

Speculation that Pearson was eying a sale of the 127-year old newspaper emerged on Monday.

对于培生集团有意将这个拥有127年历史的报纸外售的推测早已不绝于耳，而在本周一此传闻更是甚嚣尘上。

The sale does not include Pearson's 50% stake in the Economist or the FT's London office at One Southwark Bridge, the company said in its statement.

培生公司在声明中称，这次出售并不包括培生集团在《经济学人》50%的股份以及《金融时报》在南华克桥一号的伦敦物业。

Shares in the group closed up more than 2% on the news.

消息公布后，培生集团的股价立刻上涨了2%。

"Pearson has been a proud proprietor of the FT for nearly 60 years. But we've reached aninflection point in media, driven by the explosive growth of mobile and social", said Pearson's chief executive John Fallon.

培生集团的首席执行官范岳涵表示：“培生集团作为《金融时报》的王牌东家已经快要60年了。但是却因为移动媒体和社交每天的迅猛发展出现了转折。

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