Tepco says to sell $3.9 bln in securities by March

TOKYO Feb 9 (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) expects to sell 300 billion yen ($3.9 billion) worth of its securities by end-March, company president Toshio Nishizawa told reporters on Thursday.

The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, which faces trillions of yen in compensation and clean-up costs, had earlier said it planned to sell 330 billion yen of its securities holdings in three years. $1 = 76.8950 Japanese yen) (Reporting by Osamu Tsukimori; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)