eBay options to market its categorised ads arm to Norwegian e-commerce business Adevinta as it strips absent segments exterior its core on the net market, a new report states.

The two companies are near to a deal that would see Adevinta invest in eBay’s classifieds enterprise in a funds-and-stock takeover that could be introduced as quickly as Monday, according to The Wall Road Journal.

It’s unsure how much Adevinta is setting up to pay back but the phase is envisioned to fetch at least about $8 billion — which is related to Adevinta’s complete current market benefit, the paper documented Monday.

Adevinta, which runs electronic marketplaces in 15 countries in Europe, Latin The usa and North Africa, declined to comment on the claimed talks. eBay did not immediately respond to a ask for for comment.

eBay’s stock cost jumped just about 1.5 % in premarket investing to $58.99 as of 8:30 a.m.

eBay’s classifieds company — which allows area advertisers listing merchandise and products and services like on Craigslist — mainly arrives from Canada, Mexico, Africa, Australia and elements of Europe, in accordance to the Journal. The unit raked in about $1 billion in income last year, in contrast with about $8.6 billion for eBay’s main marketplace where by merchants list and offer items, in accordance to the company’s latest once-a-year report.

eBay has been slimming down to target on the marketplace section amid strain from activist financial commitment companies Starboard Worth and Elliott Administration. The latter business has argued that eBay’s other companies experienced come to be far too substantially of a distraction.

The San Jose, California-based mostly company equally declared strategies in November to promote its StubHub ticket market to European competitor Viagogo for about $4 billion in funds. The offer was accomplished in February.