Google parent company Alphabet hits $2 trillion market cap, joining Apple and Microsoft

Google parent company Alphabet briefly hit a market capitalization of $2 trillion on Monday, joining Apple and Microsoft at the $2+ billion mark, but its stock price retreated back below $2 trillion shortly after topping the number.Daniel Howley for Yahoo Finance:Alphabet joins the ranks of tech giants Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT), which are the only other publicly traded U.S. companies to cross the mark. Alphabet’s growth has been powered by its dominance of the online advertising in