Investing.com – Norway stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Banking, Media and Transport sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Oslo, the Oslo OBX lost 3.35%.
The best performers of the session on the Oslo OBX were REC Silicon ASA (OL:REC), which rose 1.73% or 0.03 points to trade at 1.53 at the close. Meanwhile, Opera Software ASA (OL:OPERA) unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 points to end at 65.50 and Golden Ocean Group Ltd (OL:GOGLT) was down 1.19% or 0.07 points to 5.81 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Akastor ASA (OL:AKAS), which fell 11.49% or 1.0 points to trade at 7.7 at the close. Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA (OL:NWC) declined 9.09% or 31.2 points to end at 312.0 and Storebrand ASA (OL:STB) was down 8.10% or 2.80 points to 31.78.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Oslo Stock Exchange by 147 to 26 and 19 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 4.39% or 2.20 to $47.91 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 4.48% or 2.28 to hit $48.63 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 4.68% or 59.10 to trade at $1322.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/NOK was up 1.17% to 9.4014, while USD/NOK rose 3.49% to 8.4467.
The US Dollar Index was up 2.33% at 95.50.