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IonQ (IONQ) shares soared some 20% on Friday after the quantum-tech firm said the United Kingdom’s Investment Security Unit (ISU) has cleared its over $1 billion acquisition of Oxford Ionics.
Now that IONQ has received the regulatory greenlight, it “looks forward to closing the deal in the near term,” the company’s chief executive, Peter Chapman, said in the press release today.