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

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Being blind to those gaps is the real miss.

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Here's your closing bell brief for Monday, December 22nd. I'm Catherine Sullivan for the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. stocks finished higher today as tech shares continued their rebound and the market

got closer to ending the year on a record-breaking note.

The S&P 500 led the major indexes with a gain of 0.6%. Both the Dow and the NASDAQ added

half a percent. Beyond equities, geopolitical tensions involving Venezuela helped push oil

futures higher and sent both gold and silver prices to new records. Among individual companies,

Tesla shares rose 1.6 percent after the electric vehicle maker won a major legal victory.

The Delaware Supreme Court reinstated a record-breaking 2018 pay package for Chief Executive Elon Musk,

reversing a previous lower court ruling that had blocked the deal.

Rocket Lab shares jumped 10 percent, extending a recent rally for the aerospace firm.

The company announced that a new agreement to build satellites for the space development agency

is its largest single contract yet. Dominion Energy shares dropped nearly 4%. The stock fell after

the Department of the Interior ordered an immediate halt to the construction of all offshore

wind projects in the United States, citing concerns over national security and radar interference.

And Instacart shares fell 2%. The online grocery platform is ending all price testing experiments

after facing pushback from customers over reports that it charged different prices for the same items.

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