Tag: economy

Norwegians go shopping again

Debit- and credit card use among Nordea bank customers in the first week of June was higher than it was before the crisis began...

New wind power protests turn ugly

UPDATED: Another rash of angry demonstrations against wind energy projects has spread over Norway recently. Some protesters targeted Norway's Oil & Energy Minister Tina Bru...

‘From Corona crisis to a new jobs crisis’

Prime Minister Erna Solberg is clearly proud of how Norwegians have withstood the Corona crisis, but now she worries that a new crisis looms....

Economy picks up, krone strengthens

Norway is once again being branded as fundamentally different from the rest of the world, as it emerges from the Corona darkness. While its...

More billions behind new crisis package

Prime Minister Erna Solberg and her Conservatives-led government rolled out yet another crisis package Friday, funded with an extra NOK 27 billion from the...

Interest rates cut down to zero

UPDATED: Norway's central bank did what it's never done before on Thursday, slicing its already record-low key policy rate from just a quarter-point down...

Economy sinks, more relief due

Seven weeks after the government shut down much of Norway, economists are sending out new gloom and doom predictions even as some businesses start...

Expat workers most vulnerable in crisis

Expatriates in Norway who come from countries outside the European Economic Area have the most to fear during the Corona crisis if they're suddenly...

IMF agrees that recession looms

The Norwegian economy, like those elsewhere in the world, is suffering an enormous shock that will cut gross national product by 6.3 percent this...

Economists defy shutdown’s support

Even though they had to swap cherished Easter holidays in the mountains for a lone cycle tour in town, and may even lose their...

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