GOOGL Stock Globetrots: How One Ticker Became the World’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure
Alphabet’s share price—ticker GOOGL—has been waltzing across trading screens like a tipsy diplomat at a UN reception: one moment bowing to regulators, the next pirouetting on AI headlines, never quite spilling the drink. To most retail investors from Jakarta to Johannesburg, the stock is simply “the Google thing,” a proxy bet on humanity’s incurable need…