The shares rallied in the last half an hour of trading to close at US$1,450.16, up 0.8 percent on the day. AN EXCLUSIVE GROUPWith the gain, Alphabet became the newest member of an elite club to trade with a 13-digit market capitalization. Only two other US companies are past that threshold: Apple Inc, valued at about US$1.38 trillion, and Microsoft Corp, at US$1.27 trillion. Globally, the list is topped by Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, which went public last month and has a market capitalization of about US$1.8 trillion. The fifth-largest US company by market capitalization, Facebook Inc, has a valuation of US$632.9 billion.

Source: Taipei Times January 17, 2020 15:56 UTC