Investing.com – Norway equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Insurance, Technology Hardware & Equipment and Food, Beverages & Tobacco sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Oslo, the Oslo OBX declined 0.75% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Oslo OBX were REC Silicon ASA (OL:REC), which rose 6.62% or 0.07 points to trade at 1.16 at the close. Schibsted ASA B (OL:SBSTB) added 2.45% or 4.60 points to end at 192.20 and Schibsted ASA A (OL:SBSTA) was up 2.45% or 4.8 points to 200.5 in late trade.
Biggest losers included DNO International ASA (OL:DNO), which lost 3.27% or 0.23 points to trade at 6.67 in late trade. SalMar ASA (OL:SALM) declined 3.07% or 8.30 points to end at 261.70 and Norsk Hydro ASA (OL:NHY) shed 2.20% or 0.82 points to 36.52.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 116 to 50 and 22 ended unchanged on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was down 1.50% or 0.67 to $43.99 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 1.77% or 0.82 to hit $45.53 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.09% or 1.20 to trade at $1304.50 a troy ounce.
EUR/NOK was down 0.07% to 9.0846, while USD/NOK fell 0.17% to 8.1722.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.11% at 97.08.