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Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Wednesday: Alphabet, Brinker International rise; PayPal, Gilead fall

Alphabet this week announced a 20-for-1 stock split, meaning that shares of the Google parent company will soon be trading at a much cheaper price.

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PayPal Pukes, Google Gains, Crypto Crokes, Dollar Dumps Sigh another day, and yet another ugly macro data point , as ADP employment data crashed most since the COVID lockdown crisis in 2020. That print stole the jam out of the market''s Alphabet-driven overnight donut. However, once European markets closed, the bid resumed, lifting The Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq into the green. S&P 500 closed up 1%, best of the bunch, as Small Caps remained ugly, down 1% on the day)... Dow and S&P gapped open above their 100DMAs and spent the morning battling to cling on to it. Once Europe closed, The Dow extended above its 50DMA and S&P built on its gains above the 100DMA... However, the big stories of the day were in two stocks. Alphabet exploded almost 10% higher today after blockbuster earnings, making new record intraday highs... And Paypal puked hard today (down 25%), with a notable absence of dip-buyers... Its biggest volume day ever and worst day on record (back to its lowest since May 2020)... Source: Bloomberg Treasury yields were all very modestly lower on the day with the belly outperforming (7Y -2bps, 2Y & 30Y unch). 2Y is still lower on the week but the rest of the curve is now basically flat Source: Bloomberg 30Y Yields were all over the pace today (within an interesting post-FOMC range) but closed back at pre-Fed levels...

Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) shares surged on Wednesday after the tech giant posted fourth-quarter results that beat Wall Street estimates handily, while adding that it was splitting its

Google parent Alphabet Inc advanced nearer to joining peers Apple and Microsoft in the elite $2 trillion market valuation club on Wednesday as the search giant''s shares surged more than 8% following a blowout quarterly report.

Google stock is the IBD Stock of the Day in the wake of parent Alphabet posting an earnings beat. But GOOGL stock pulled back from a buy zone.

Google Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is set to disclose earnings for the fourth quarter on Tuesday, and investors will be looking to how the internet giant can maintain the stellar results in the previous quarters last year. Analysts anticipate that the companys earnings per share will grow at its slowest in the last six []

Investors are focusing on what has been a mostly positive earnings season, also shrugging off a negative private payroll report that was clearly impacted by the omicron variant spread in January. Google crushed earnings and that optimism has many traders feeling that the bottom is in for the mega-cap tech giants. Apple and Google have []

Google parent Alphabet ( GOOGL , $2,752.88) briefly added more than $180 billion in market value at the opening bell Wednesday after the search giant easily topped fourth-quarter estimates and delivered on many investors'' longtime wishes by announcing a 20-for-1 stock split. An Alphabet stock split would not only make its A-class GOOGL shares and C-class GOOG shares more accessible to retail investors, but also perhaps open the door for inclusion into the elite Dow Jones Industrial Average one day. Alphabet announced both the stock split and its quarterly results late Tuesday, resulting in a jump in GOOGL stock of as much as 10% in the first few minutes of Wednesday''s session. That''s the biggest opening gap-up on earnings for its shares since April 2008, when they popped 19.1%, according to data from Bespoke Investment Group. SEE MORE The 22 Best Stocks to Buy for 2022 As good as Alphabet''s quarterly results were it earned $30.69 per share on $75.3 billion in revenues, topping respective estimates for $27.34 per share on $72.3 billion Wednesday''s price action was likely driven every bit as much by news of its proposed share split.

These are the stocks posting the largest moves in midday trading Wednesday.

The stock market reversed earlier gains as tensions mounted over a Russian invasion of Ukraine; Alphabet and AMD posted strong earnings.

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