Norwegian Stocks: Oil price lifts Oslo, BlackRock raises Marine Harvest stake

Questerre Energy (Canada)

20/03/2018 12:52

OSLO, March 20 (Reuters) - 
    ** Norwegian shares traded up on Tuesday
    ** Oslo's benchmark index  .OSEBX  rose 0.50 percent, or
3.97 points, to 802.05 points and was down by 2.01 percent
year-to-date
    ** The broader Oslo All Share Index  .OSEAX  was up 0.43
percent
    ** Among the biggest firms at Oslo Bourse, Statoil  STL.OL 
rose 0.63 percent, Telenor  TEL.OL  fell 0.43 percent and DNB
 DNB.OL  fell 0.45 percent
    ** Turnover at Oslo Bourse was 1.64 billion Norwegian crowns
and most traded shares were DNB  DNB.OL , Marine Harvest
 MHG.OL  and Statoil STL.OL 
    ** Brent crude futures  LCOc1 , a trigger for the oil heavy
Oslo Bourse, rose $0.98 to $67.03 a barrel  O/R 
    ** Shares of Marine Harvest ASA  MHG.OL  were up 2.08 pct to
NOK 154.35 
    ** Asset manager BlackRock Inc on March 16 bought 2.73
million shares in Marine Harvest ASA, resulting in a
shareholding of 5.06 pct
    ** DNB's  DNB.OL  CEO repeats lending growth outlook for
2018  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N1R22H2
    ** Among the biggest gainers: Petroleum Geo Services ASA
rose 5.81 percent,  Af Gruppen ASA gained 3.17 percent and
Schibsted ASA was up 2.99 percent
    ** For media firm Schibsted  SBSTA.OL  broker ABG Sundal
Collier raises recommendation to buy from hold
    ** Among the biggest losers: Questerre Energy Corp  QEC.OL 
fell 2.86 percent, Next Biometrics Group ASA  NEXT.OL  lost 2.75
percent and Seadrill Ltd  SDRL.OL  was down 1.82 percent
    ** Abroad: European shares  .FTEU3  rose 0.36 percent,
Japan's main share index Nikkei  .N225  ended down 0.47 percent,
while in China Shanghai index  .SSEC  was up 0.34 percent and
the Dow Jones index  .DJI  in the United States fell 1.35
percent on Monday

 (Reporting by Ole Petter Skonnord, editing by Terje Solsvik)
 ((olepetter.skonnord@thomsonreuters.com; 0047 23 31 65 97;))