Investing.com – Norway equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Food, Beverages & Tobacco, Real Estate and Pharma Biotech & Life Sciences sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Oslo, the Oslo OBX fell 1.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Oslo OBX were Petroleum Geo - Services ASA (OL:PGS), which rose 1.78% or 0.43 points to trade at 24.62 at the close. BW LPG Ltd (OL:BWLPG) added 1.63% or 0.67 points to end at 41.67 and DNO International ASA (OL:DNO) was up 0.39% or 0.03 points to 7.67 in late trade.
Biggest losers included P/f Bakkafrost (OL:BAKKA), which lost 4.10% or 12.80 points to trade at 299.30 in late trade. Marine Harvest ASA (OL:MHG) declined 3.98% or 5.80 points to end at 140.00 and Lerøy Seafood Group ASA (OL:LSG) shed 2.73% or 12.2 points to 434.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 125 to 49 and 26 ended unchanged on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was up 1.10% or 0.58 to $53.19 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 1.00% or 0.55 to hit $55.63 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.65% or 8.05 to trade at $1224.85 a troy ounce.
EUR/NOK was up 0.37% to 8.9460, while USD/NOK fell 0.11% to 8.4748.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.25% at 101.90.