Finance

Small changes in sickness absence

The number of employees with doctor certified sickness absence as a percentage of all employees was 6.3 per cent both in the first and the fourth quarter of 2015. A new…

Oil industry: 50,000 oil jobs disappear because of downturn

The recovery from the oil crisis won’t start until 2018, and until then 50,000 jobs will disappear, according to a new report from the industry organization Norwegian…

Future winters will prove expensive to Norway

Winters without snow caused by the climate changes will have major financial implications for a variety of industries, according to an expert panel, which discusses the…

DNB cuts fixed interest rate

New rules requiring reporting of short sales

The Ministry of Finance is working on new legislation that will require investors who short sell shares on a large scale to report this. The objective of getting reports…

Solberg: Less room to maneuver

Prime Minister Erna Solberg stated that there are less financial resources available than before at the beginning of the government’s budget conference in Hurdal on…

Oil prices continue to rise

The price of North Sea oil is approaching $ 40 per barrel after several weeks of recovery. Less drilling in the United States and strong US employment figures…

Continued predominance of women in part-time positions

14 percent of all working women work part-time, while only six percent of men do the same, shows a new study. A new survey Norstat and Opinion have made for Finn.no…

Siv Jensen wants cheaper muscle cars

Cars with a lot of horsepower will be even cheaper, if the bourgeois parties can come to an agreement. This year the purchase tax for new cars was changed. The so-called…

Sharp rise in fraud attempts against businesses

Economic Crime Division now has to deal with a new kind of fraud, the so-called CEO-fraud, where companies are defrauded of large sums of money. – We see that the…