AFP, Tokyo :
Tokyo stocks rose Friday with SoftBank soaring to a 17-year-high, while traders took in their stride sacked FBI chief James Comey’s testimony that Donald Trump asked him to drop a probe into the administration’s Russia links.
Telecoms giant SoftBank surged 7.42 percent to 9,476 yen, its highest since May 2000, after saying it will buy US firm Boston Dynamics from Google parent Alphabet. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The company is a spin off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that makes sophisticated robots designed to run and manoeuvre like animals.
Tokyo stocks rose Friday with SoftBank soaring to a 17-year-high, while traders took in their stride sacked FBI chief James Comey’s testimony that Donald Trump asked him to drop a probe into the administration’s Russia links.
Telecoms giant SoftBank surged 7.42 percent to 9,476 yen, its highest since May 2000, after saying it will buy US firm Boston Dynamics from Google parent Alphabet. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The company is a spin off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that makes sophisticated robots designed to run and manoeuvre like animals.
