Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Lunch, our afternoon update on today's market action news and analysis.

Good afternoon. Today is Monday January 8th, I'm your host Kim Khan. Our top story so far.

Apple's Vision Pro mixed reality headset will launch in the US on Groundhog Day.

CEO Tim Cook says,

the era of spatial computing has arrived.

Apple Vision Pro is the most advanced consumer electronics device ever created.

The device will be on sale February 2nd. Pre-orders for the device, which starts at 3,490

for 256 gigabytes worth of storage, will be available on January 19th at 8 a.m. Eastern time.

Readers will be available for $99 in the U.S. and prescription lenses will be

available for $ 149. The Vision Pro was announced in June and is

Apple's biggest product launch in nearly a decade. It will be available in all

US Apple stores as well as the online Apple store. The Vision Pro comes with Vision OS, which Apple has previously

described as the world's first spatial operating system. It has an ultra-high

resolution display system that comes with 23 billion pixels across two displays

and custom Apple Silicon in a unique dual-ship design.

In today's trading, stocks are mixed with growth seeing some strength after a tough week.

The Nasdak is up about 1% leading the S&P 500. The Dow is lower though due to a big point

drop in Boeing after the fleet of 737 Max9s was grounded.

6 of 11 SMT sectors are higher.

Infotech is the biggest gainer, while energy is the weakest after oil dropped in the wake of a Saudi price cut.

W.T.I. Crude is slumping more than 4.5%.

On Sunday, Saudi Aramco cut the official selling price by $2 per barrel from January levels to a $1.50 per barrel over

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