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's your midday brief for Thursday, January 22nd.

I'm Pierre Bienname for the Wall Street Journal.

The Commerce Department today released updated figures on GDP growth,

saying the U.S. grew at a 4.4% annual rate in the third quarter.

That's slightly stronger than the initial estimate that came out last

month and confirms an economic upswing that had surprised analysts. Procter & Gamble today posted slightly

higher revenue in its latest quarter thanks to higher prices. Those helped offset a decline in sales

volume. The maker of Crest, toothpaste, and pantine shampoo cut its earnings outlook for the fiscal

year ending in June, citing higher restructuring charges, but says it expects commodity costs to ease a bit.

And in the U.S., colorectal cancer is the leading cause of death from cancer in younger people.

That's according to a new analysis published today by the American Cancer Society.

And before we go, a correction. More than 1.2 million people under age 50 died of cancer in the U.S.

from 1990 through 2023. An earlier version of this podcast incorrectly said the figure applied

only to colorectal cancer. Heads up, an artificial intelligence tool helped us make this episode by creating

summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor.

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