Investing.com – Norway stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Capital Goods, Telecoms and Food, Beverages & Tobacco sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Oslo, the Oslo OBX rose 0.22%.
The best performers of the session on the Oslo OBX were Questerre Energy Corporation (OL:QEC), which rose 10.84% or 0.63 points to trade at 6.39 at the close. Meanwhile, Grieg Seafood (OL:GSFO) added 2.34% or 2.05 points to end at 89.50 and P/f Bakkafrost (OL:BAKKA) was up 2.12% or 9.00 points to 433.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were DNO International ASA (OL:DNO), which fell 3.23% or 0.53 points to trade at 15.86 at the close. Subsea 7 SA (OL:SUBC) declined 1.55% or 1.9 points to end at 124.0 and TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company ASA (OL:TGS) was down 0.54% or 1.5 points to 274.5.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Oslo Stock Exchange by 95 to 80 and 26 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for July delivery was down 1.28% or 0.84 to $64.97 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 1.47% or 1.13 to hit $75.66 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.13% or 1.70 to trade at $1297.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/NOK was down 0.53% to 9.4931, while USD/NOK fell 0.81% to 8.1189.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 94.03.