By Khadija Saeed
Publication Date: 2025-12-30 15:42:00
NEW YORK, December 30, 2025, 10:18 ET — Regular session
- Alphabet’s Class C shares rose about 0.3% in morning trading, tracking a flat tape for big-cap tech.
- Traders were braced for the Fed’s December meeting minutes later Tuesday, a potential catalyst for rate-sensitive growth stocks.
- Google pointed to a fresh slate of Gemini AI updates, including new video verification features using SynthID watermarks.
Alphabet’s Class C shares (GOOG) rose 0.3% to $315.41 in morning trading on Tuesday, after touching $317.53 earlier in the session. The stock, which carries no voting rights, was last valued at about $2.94 trillion and traded at about 24 times trailing earnings.
The move mattered because investors were positioning ahead of the Federal Reserve’s December meeting minutes, due at 2 p.m. ET. Minutes are the detailed record of a policy meeting and can shift expectations for where interest rates are headed — a key input for valuing growth stocks such as Alphabet. Reuters
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