Investing.com – Norway stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Auto & components, Diversified Financials and Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Oslo, the Oslo OBX rose 0.55%.
The best performers of the session on the Oslo OBX were Akastor ASA (OSLO:AKAS), which rose 5.06% or 0.7 points to trade at 13.5 at the close. Meanwhile, Renewable Energy Corporation ASA (OSLO:REC) added 4.86% or 0.09 points to end at 1.90 and Opera Software ASA (OSLO:OPERA) was up 3.93% or 2.35 points to 62.10 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Norsk Hydro ASA (OSLO:NHY), which fell 2.23% or 0.79 points to trade at 34.65 at the close. Bw Lpg (OSLO:BWLPG) declined 0.91% or 0.55 points to end at 59.95 and TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company ASA (OSLO:TGS) was down 0.62% or 1.2 points to 192.8.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Oslo Stock Exchange by 121 to 58 and 5 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 2.06% or 1.25 to $59.57 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 2.58% or 1.66 to hit $62.60 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 0.04% or 0.50 to trade at $1202.50 a troy ounce.
EUR/NOK was down 0.34% to 8.8258, while USD/NOK fell 0.09% to 7.7862.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.22% at 94.42.