Solberg: Doesn’t seem strange that base rate was not lowered
Doesn’t seem strange, Prime Minister Erna Solberg says on the unchanged base rate of the Central Bank. Governor Øystein Olsen believes there is reason to…
Finance
Record high prices for salmon lead to record results for Lerøy
Record high prices for Atlantic salmon and good trout prices contributed strongly to Lerøy achieving its best results ever in the first quarter of this…
Solberg: Transparency is of the essence
Prime Minister Erna Solberg is referring to the open tax declaration system when she promotes Norway’s efforts to combat corruption. For Norway transparency is the…
Slow increase in digital newspaper subscriber
The Media organisations will announce subscriber growth and says user payment is the future, but amongst those who are not already digital subscribers only one…
April traffic figures – solid growth continues in Northern Norway
The April figures show little change in the total number of passengers compared with the same month last year (+0.1 per cent). The total…
Strong quarter for Marine Harvest
The fish farm company Marine Harvest has never had more revenue in a first quarter than in the first four months of this year. –…
The government will spend 250 million more on road and rail
The Government proposes in their revised national budget to spend 150 million Nok on operations, maintenance and investments in the national road network and over…
White paper on the future of Svalbard
By strengthening research, tourism and the general businesses the government will develop Svalbard further. This is revealed in the White Paper regarding Svalbard presented by…
Government received letter of concern about Telenor subsidiary
The Telenor subsidiary in Bangladesh is fighting to prevent employees from organizing themselves, according to an international trade union that has sent a letter of…
Economy: Pessimism prevails among Norwegians
Not since the crisis at the beginning 1990s have Norwegians expectations concerning economic developments have been as low as they have been in this quarter…
150-200 million to ease unemployment
The government will provide additional funds for municipalities in the South and Western Norway with high unemployment. Newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad thinks we are talking about…
Price rise on petroleum products
The price index of first-hand domestic sales went up 0.6 per cent from March to April, mainly due to higher prices on different petroleum products…
The Auditor General:Poor monitoring of foreign taxpayers
Many foreigners with temporary residence permit in Norway pay too little or too much tax. Errors in the calculations are due to the complicated taxation…
Growing labor shortages in Finnmark
Employers in Finnmark will be missing 900 workers in 2016, according to a survey from Nav. Nav Finnmark annual business survey shows that the need…
More expensive food and electricity
The consumer price index has risen by 3.2 percent over the last twelve months. More expensive food is the main cause. The twelve-month growth has…
Solberg visiting Stavanger on the day of the budget presentation
Prime Minister Erna Solberg will travel to to Rogaland and Stavanger on Wednesday to talk about the revised budget to be presented on the same…
Government wants more jobs in the private sector in Svalbard
The government wants to create more jobs in the private sector in Svalbard after the state-owned coal company Store Norwegian has fired several hundred employees. This…
Indian bank manager proposed for position at the Telenor board
Indian Ashok Vaswani is proposed as the third new director of Telenor. The 55-year-old is the CEO of the large bank Barclays UK. Telenor ASA…
Companies are reluctant to invest
95 percent of businesses in Western Norway reveal that they have not completed their investments as planned in the past year. The rest of 2016…
40 employees lose their jobs in oil company
The oil company Maersk Oil will cut 40 positions at their departments in Copenhagen, Aberdeen and Stavanger. The reduction comes as a result of them…