As companies seek to close growing gaps in skills and talent,

Deloitte US CEO Jason Garzatus believes it's important for organizations to understand their baseline of skills.

There's so many organizations that can't ask and answer the fundamental questions about how much computer science or data management skills do I have or AI development skills in a given domain. By performing a

skills inventory, leaders can truly understand where their efforts should be focused. Being blind

to those gaps is the real miss. Visit Deloitte.com to learn how your enterprise can help

successfully cultivate talent. Here is your morning brief from Monday, December 15th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal.

Authorities in Australia are treating yesterday's killing of 15 people at a Hanukkah event on Sydney's

Bondi Beach as a terrorist attack. The premiere of New South Wales described the shooting,

which was carried out by a father and his son,

as designed to target Sydney's Jewish community. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the suspects

were driven by an extreme perversion of Islam, but had acted alone, stressing that investigations

are continuing. Chinese stocks closed lower today following the release of a raft of economic data that showed the world's second largest economy deteriorating on several fronts.

Despite achieving a record $1 trillion trade surplus in goods this year, the National Bureau of Statistics reported domestic weakness with retail spending, slowing, and

producer prices stuck in negative territory. While China's overall growth has defied expectations

this year, the latest figures confirm that expansion is heavily reliant on exports, failing

to mask deepening struggles in both consumer spending and the critical property market.

And we're exclusively reporting that SpaceX has started interviewing investment banks ahead of a

possible IPO next year. Wall Street's top banks will submit initial pitches to oversee the process

this week in what's known as a bake-off. The move has surprised some people at the Elon Musk-led

rocket and satellite company, which has become an essential contractor for the U.S. government.

The company says an IPO timeline remains highly uncertain. Asian stocks end of the day,

mostly lower. European shares are gaining in midday trading, and U.S. stock

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