Norwegian Stocks: Oil shares take Oslo to another all-time high
11/05/2018 10:19
OSLO, May 11 (Reuters) - * Norwegian shares traded up on Friday * Oslo's benchmark index .OSEBX rose 0.4 pct, or 3.5 points, to all-time high of 882.11 points and was up by 7.8 pct year-to-date * The broader Oslo All Share Index .OSEAX was up 0.5 percent * Brent crude futures LCOc1 , a trigger for the oil heavy Oslo Bourse, fell $-0.16 to $77.32 a barrel, prices still close to multi-year highs O/R * Among the biggest firms on the Oslo Bourse, Statoil STL.OL rose 0.42 pct, Telenor TEL.OL rose 0.6 pct and DNB DNB.OL rose 0.5 pct ** Oil related firms Seadrill SDRL.OL , TGS TGS.OL , Subsea 7 SUBC.OL , DNO DNO.OL , PGS PGS.OL and Aker Solutions AKSOL.OL rose in the range 0.4 to 6.6 pct * Record 16 companies register for Brazil pre-salt oil auction, including Statoil STL.OL urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nE5N1OL01H * Gainers: Funcom FUNCOM.OL 6.7 pct and Idex IDEX.OL 3.4 pct * Abroad European shares .FTEU3 fell -0.05 pct, Japan's main share index Nikkei .N225 ended up 1.16 pct, while in China Shanghai index .SSEC was down -0.36 pct and Dow Jones index .DJI in the United States 0.80 pct on Thursday (Reporting By Ole Petter Skonnord, editing by Terje Solsvik) ((olepetter.skonnord@thomsonreuters.com; 0047 23 31 65 97;))