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.

NEW YORK, Jan 4, 2026, 17:03 ET — Market closed Alphabet Inc’s Class C shares (GOOG) rose 0.5% on Friday to $315.32, finishing the week higher as U.S. markets opened 2026 with choppy trading. That matters now because Alphabet is one of the largest weights in U.S. equity benchmarks, and January’s data calendar is set to drive rate expectations that can reprice megacap tech quickly. The next macro jolt is the Jan. 9 U.S. employment report, followed by the Jan. 13 consumer price index. Fed funds futures show investors are still debating how quickly the Federal Reserve can cut again

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,