{"id":173509,"date":"2025-12-31T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/google-stock-wraps-best-year-since-2009-as-ai-excites-wall-street\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:05:12","slug":"google-stock-wraps-best-year-since-2009-as-ai-excites-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/google-stock-wraps-best-year-since-2009-as-ai-excites-wall-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Google stock wraps best year since 2009 as AI excites Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/12\/31\/google-stock-wraps-best-year-since-2009-as-ai-excites-wall-street-.html\">Google stock wraps best year since 2009 as AI excites Wall Street<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/12\/31\/google-stock-wraps-best-year-since-2009-as-ai-excites-wall-street-.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/12\/31\/google-stock-wraps-best-year-since-2009-as-ai-excites-wall-street-.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2025-12-31 16:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnbc.com\">www.cnbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Strong Year Despite Initial Uncertainty:<\/strong> Google&#8217;s parent company, Alphabet, experienced its best year on Wall Street since 2009, with a 65% increase in its stock for the year, though it faced difficulties early on during a period of tariff threats.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Dominant Gains Among Tech Giants:<\/strong> Among the tech companies valued over $1 trillion, Alphabet saw the biggest gains, outpacing the next largest increases from chipmakers Broadcom and Nvidia.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Advancements and Market Response:<\/strong> Alphabet introduced several AI innovations, notably the Gemini app, which surpassed usage of OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT, and advanced its AI model to Gemini 3, showing rapid progress in the AI market.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Legal Setbacks Turned Positive:<\/strong> Google&#8217;s antitrust case resulted in findings of an illegal monopoly but received a more lenient ruling than anticipated, preserving key business practices while requiring data sharing with competitors.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Rising Cloud Business and Growth Projections:<\/strong> Google&#8217;s cloud computing business is experiencing significant growth, driving expectations for high revenue growth, projected at over $111 billion for the fourth quarter and more than $114 billion for 2026.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Strategic Acquisitions and Talent Acquisition:<\/strong> Google acquired significant talent from AI startup Windsurf for $2.4 billion, bolstering its AI expertise and competitive edge in the AI domain.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Analysts&#8217; 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