Trump nominates Brett Matsumoto for BLS commissioner

President Trump on Friday nominated economist Brett Matsumoto as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), after the president ousted the previous agency head over substantial revisions to previous jobs reports. “For too many years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the hands of weak and foolish people, has been failing American businesses, policymakers,…

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is Novo Nordisk past its ‘peak uncertainty’?

At one point, it was Europe’s most valuable company. Now, as Danish pharmaceutical group Novo Nordisk prepares to publish its third-quarter earnings on Wednesday, the picture looks very different. Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images CNBC’s Charlotte Reed will travel to Copenhagen to speak with the company’s new CEO Mark Doustdar, a 30-year veteran…

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