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New oil minister bullish as usual

Terje Søviknes, a veteran politician from the conservative Progress Party, made his North Sea debut as Norway's new oil and energy minister this week when he...

Taxes can usher in sharing economy

A government-appointed commission has cleared the way for the sharing economy to spread in Norway, as long as new services like Airbnb lodging and Uber transport are taxed....

Lowest wage growth in 16 years

Average monthly wages grew by just 1.6 percent in September, the last month for which data was collected and analyzed by state statistics bureau SSB...

Immigration tests the welfare state

Norway has not succeeded in ushering refugees and many other immigrants into the workforce, notes the leader of a commission that's been studying the...

Stocks up, trade down with Trump

The so-called "Trump effect" is boosting some businesses in Norway, but troubling those involved in international trade who rely on long-term export income. The Oslo Stock...

Statoil insists it’s also ‘going green’

Even as Statoil promoted a "fantastic portfolio" of oil drilling projects for 2017 this week, three of them in the sensitive Arctic, top officials insist the Norwegian...

Leaders clash at NHO conference

Norway's national employers' organization NHO gathered some of the most powerful business and political leaders in the country on Thursday for its annual conference...

Seafood sales keep soaring into 2017

Norway's seafood industry, especially salmon, is starting the New Year off with even more record high prices and strong demand. Salmon prices are also...

Norway ‘rigged for an economic upturn’

Oil prices will rise, Norway's krone will regain strength, unemployment will top out and housing prices will shoot up even higher. That's the overall outlook...

No increase in interest rates

There'd been some speculation that the executive board of Norway's central bank would raise interest rates at its last meeting of the year on Thursday,...
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