BUZZ-Booker: stock top mid-cap loser as Metro exits
** Booker Group Plc (LSE: BOK.L - news) 's shares down 6.4 pct after German retailer Metro AG (Xetra: 725750 - news) offloads its about 9 pct stake.
** Booker, Britain's biggest cash-and-carry wholesaler, placement priced at a 7.6 pct discount to last close.
** Bookrunner JP Morgan says Metro (Other OTC: MTRAF - news) sells 156.6 million shares at 125 pence/shr.
** Metro, which runs Europe's largest consumer electronics chain Media-Saturn as well as Real hypermarkets and Kaufhof department stores in Germany, raises gross proceeds of about 196 mln pounds ($322.81 mln) via placing.
(1 US dollar = 0.6072 British pound) (Reuters Messaging: esha.vaish.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)