Investing.com – Norway equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Banking, Insurance and Technology Hardware & Equipment sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Oslo, the Oslo OBX lost 3.19%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Oslo OBX were Renewable Energy Corporation ASA (OL:REC), which rose 4.91% or 0.04 points to trade at 0.88 at the close. Opera Software ASA (OL:OPERA) added 1.38% or 0.90 points to end at 66.00 and TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company ASA (OL:TGS) was up 1.14% or 1.3 points to 115.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Akastor ASA (OL:AKAS), which lost 10.43% or 0.7 points to trade at 5.7 in late trade. DnB ASA (OL:DNB) declined 6.97% or 6.8 points to end at 91.4 and Petroleum Geo - Services ASA (OL:PGS) shed 6.86% or 1.54 points to 20.90.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 141 to 41 and 7 ended unchanged on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 1.04% or 0.28 to $27.16 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 0.91% or 0.28 to hit $30.56 a barrel, while the April Gold contract rose 4.95% or 59.10 to trade at $1253.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/NOK was up 1.08% to 9.7138, while USD/NOK rose 0.45% to 8.5515.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.46% at 95.40.