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Conservatives gain on Labour’s loss

NEWS ANALYSIS: Prime Minister Erna Solberg's Conservative Party has scored a major gain in the latest public opinon poll, which also logged the worst showing...

Interest rates stay low

The board of Norway's central bank, Norges Bank, opted once again to keep its key lending rate low and unchanged at 0.5 percent on Thursday....

‘Norway Creates Jobs in the US’

Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende flew to Washington DC this past week with a bold and unusual message for the new US Trump Administration and...

Norway’s Oil Fund just keeps growing

Analysts and politicians weren't expecting much, but Norway's huge sovereign wealth fund known as the Oil Fund logged a good year last year. It...

Overall pay growth lowest since the war

Higher prices in Norway cut into the modest pay raises received by Norwegian workers last year. That led to a large decline in purchasing...

Bank boss had to alter annual address

Norway's central bank boss Øystein Olsen had to make some last-minute changes in his important annual address on the economy Thursday evening. Just hours...

Government reins in Oil Fund use

Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Finance Minister Siv Jensen, who have transferred more money from Norway's Oil Fund to the state budget than any...

Statoil optimistic in a new oil market

After years releasing a lot of bad news, the chief executive of Norway's biggest and arguably most important company now seems defiantly optimistic. Statoil CEO...

Telenor, Statkraft cut hundreds of jobs

Norwegian power company Statkraft and state-controlled telecoms firm Telenor announced more major jobs cuts on Thursday. At Telenor, the cuts were blamed on the...

Norwegians regain faith in the economy

For the fourth quarter in a row, surveys and key indicators suggest that Norwegians have regained confidence in the country's economy and have higher...
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