NASDAQ:GOOG News 30 December 2025 - 9 January 2026

Alphabet’s Class C shares were little changed Thursday after EU regulators set a Feb. 10 deadline to decide on its $32 billion Wiz acquisition. Cantor Fitzgerald upgraded the stock to Overweight and raised its price target to $370. GOOG opened higher but slipped to $322.69 in early trade. The EU decision could determine if the deal faces a lengthy review.

Alphabet Class C shares (GOOG) closed up 0.5% at $315.32 Friday, outperforming a flat Nasdaq. A Form 4 filing showed chief legal officer John Kent Walker transferred 17,829 shares as a gift on Dec. 31. Traders are watching support at $310 and resistance near $329 ahead of the Jan. 9 U.S. jobs report. Microsoft and Meta fell while chip stocks steadied the broader market.

NEW YORK, Jan 2, 2026, 17:16 ET — After-hours Alphabet Inc’s Class C shares (GOOG.O) were up 0.5% at $315.32 in after-hours trading on Friday, as investors weighed new bullish calls tied to Google’s AI-powered search push. The stock ranged from $310.71 to $322.86 in the session, with about 22 million shares traded. The first trading day of 2026 is putting a familiar question back on the tape: how much upside big tech has left after last year’s run, and what counts as proof that expensive AI investment is paying off. For Alphabet, that debate centers on Search, still its

NEW YORK, January 1, 2026, 09:54 ET — Market closed Citizens Financial Group analyst Andrew Boone raised his price target on Google parent Alphabet to $385 from $340, citing AI Mode and AI Overviews in Search and the release of the Gemini 3 model, even as ChatGPT and Perplexity vie for users, Barron’s reported. “We view AI search as a tailwind near term for query growth,” Boone wrote, and the new target implies about 22% upside from Tuesday’s close, the report said. U.S. stock markets were closed on Thursday for the New Year’s Day holiday. Barron’s+1 Alphabet’s non-voting Class C

NEW YORK, December 31, 2025, 16:36 ET — After-hours Alphabet’s Class C shares (GOOG) edged down 0.2% in after-hours trading on Wednesday to $313.80, after a muted year-end session that left the stock inside a $312.34 to $315.37 range. Investing.com South Africa The late-day drift came as investors digested a fresh Wall Street target hike and looked past it toward a bigger near-term question: whether Google’s AI-infused search experience can translate into faster query growth and steady advertising demand in 2026. That matters because Alphabet’s 2025 rally has made the stock a bellwether for the “AI trade” in mega-cap tech,