
Fall in foreign liabilities
Liabilities held abroad by Norwegian non-financial enterprises totalled NOK 1 406 billion at the end of 2015. This was a 5.7 per cent fall from the 3rd quarter of 2015,…
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Liabilities held abroad by Norwegian non-financial enterprises totalled NOK 1 406 billion at the end of 2015. This was a 5.7 per cent fall from the 3rd quarter of 2015,…

More than 95,000 Norwegians will be unemployed by the end of the year, the latest estimates from the Nav reveal. Nav’s updated forecasts were published Wednesday. Labour…

Through its wholly-owned subsidiary Idun Industri AS, Orkla Food Ingredients (OFI) has purchased The Waverley Bakery Limited, a leading supplier of ice cream cones,…

In 26 minutes 126,225 salmon died during a delousing at a fish farm at Frøya in Sør-Trøndelag. Special Inspector and veterinary Aud Skrudland FSA told the newspaper…

International investors bought commercial property for 50 billion in Norway last year. This as much as the nine preceding years added together. We see a lot of…

Avinor and the other transport agencies are asking Transport Minister Ketil Solvik-Olsen to move Bodø Airport. In the agencies’ proposal for a new National Transport…

44 years ago it was the oil sector that gave Norway a unique position. Now Norway is making its mark in biotechnology.- Ten Norwegian companies are, taken together,…

Nav thinks unemployment will continue to increase, although the number of people who lost their jobs last year were less than expected. The challenges of the labor…

This Saturday will be the last Saturday the postmen will be making the rounds. The amount of mail to be delivered, is so small that Posten now ends the service. The…

After a difficult start to the week an increase in the price of oil contributed to a nice upswing on the Oslo Stock Exchange for two consecutive days. On Friday the main…

The total number of reindeer dropped by more than 20,000 animals in the previous operating year compared with the previous year. Last operating year 75,400 reindeer were…

The operational results of Jon Fredriksen’s rig company Seadrill were more than halved in the fourth quarter 2014 in comparison to the same period last year. At the same…

The Norwegian company Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract for the value of more than $ 750 million for the development of subsea fields off the coast of Egypt, the…