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. Hey listeners, your money briefing is on a break, but we'll be back with more

personal finance information for you in the future.

Until then, here's the news moving markets this week.

Hey, listeners, it's Saturday, October 4th.

I'm Francesca Fontana for the Wall Street Journal, and this is What's News and Markets,

our look

at the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.

Let's get to it.

Let's start with the government shutdown in the U.S., shall we?

How the stock market has been reacting both before and after the shutdown that started Wednesday.

While stocks were weighed down early in the week, we saw investors mostly shrugging off the

shutdown, which, remember, delayed Fridays, September jobs report, and could lead to a blackout

of key economic data.

And that strength is thanks to a few things.

For one, a rally in pharmaceutical stocks helped lift major indexes on Tuesday. More on that

in a second. And there's continued enthusiasm over AI. Now let's talk closing records. This

week's performance by the three major indexes brought the grand total of closing records for

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