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

Good afternoon, today's Thursday January 4th and I'm your host Kim Khan. Our top story so far.

Microsoft is making the first significant change to the Windows PC keyboard in nearly three decades.

The company is adding a button to activate its

artificial intelligence co-pilot service underlying just how much it expects AI to

be central to its business. Over the coming days leading up to and at the Consumer Electronics Show, the co-pilot key will come up on many of the new Windows 11 PCs from its ecosystem partners, with availability starting in late February through spring,

including on upcoming surface devices.

Chief Marketing Officer Yousaf Maydi said on a blog post

that the new key will invoke the co-pilot in Windows experience

to make it seamless to engage co-pilot in your day-to-day.

About 30 years ago, the company introduced the Windows Key to the PC keyboard.

We see this as another transformative moment in our journey with Windows, where Co-Pilot will be the entry

point into the world of AI on the PC, maybe added.

In today's trading, stocks are getting some more buying support after two sessions of selling this week, but growth names are

still on the back foot. The Dowel leads the S&P and the NASDAQ. Nine of the 11 S&P sectors are

higher, led by financials. Energy is the weakest. The 10-year

Treasury yield is back around 4%, higher following a choppy previous session.

The morning data included a trio of jobs reports that indicated a labor market strength.

Weekly initial jobless claims fell to $202,000, the lowest level in three months, and much lower than the

217,000 expected.

Continuing claims fell to 1.855 million from 1.86 million prior and lower than the 1.83

million consensus.

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