Norwegian Stocks: Oslo supported by oil price, Prosafe gains on rig deal
06/08/2018 12:15
OSLO, Aug 6 (Reuters) -
* Norwegian shares traded up on Monday
* Oslo's benchmark index .OSEBX rose 0.47 pct, or 4.23
points, to 896.06 points and was up by 9.50 pct year-to-date
* The broader Oslo All Share Index .OSEAX was up 0.48 percent
* Brent crude futures LCOc1 , a trigger for the oil heavy Oslo
Bourse, rose $0.8 to $74.01 a barrel O/R
* Among the biggest firms on the Oslo Bourse, Equinor EQNR.OL
rose 0.70 pct, Telenor TEL.OL rose 0.13 pct and DNB DNB.OL
fell -0.27 pct
* Turnover at the Oslo Bourse was 1.3 billion Norwegian crowns
and most traded shares were Equinor EQNR.OL , Norsk Hydro
NHY.OL and TGS TGS.OL
* Shares of Norsk Hydro ASA NHY.OL NHY.OL were up 0.48 pct
to NOK 46.28
* Norsk Hydro ASA: Goldman Sachs upgrades to neutral
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* Norweigan Air +0.6 pct after traffic figures for July: yield
above forecast, RPK below urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N1UX0R7 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nASO0006CK
* Biggest gainers: Prosafe PRSO.OL 16.65 pct, Next Biometrics
Group ASA NEXT.OL 10.56 pct, Grieg Seafood ASA GSFO.OL 4.62
pct and TGS TGS.OL 4.04 pct
* Next Biometric, a fingerprint sensor technology company, has
received initial orders for its "Scallop" fingerprint readers
for use in India's Aadhaar government ID program. It also
intends to create a subsidiary in India
* Seismic firm TGS upgraded by Pareto to buy from hold
* Rig firm Prosafe signed an agreement with shipyard Cosco and
banks allowing for flexible delivery and long-term financing of
Safe Eurus, Safe Nova and Safe Vega urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nASO0006C7
* Biggest losers: Idex ASA IDEX.OL -2.94 pct, REC Silicon ASA
REC.OL -2.01 pct and Wilh Wilhelmsen Holding ASA WWIB.OL
-2.00 pct
* Abroad European shares .FTEU3 rose 0.17 pct, Japan's main
share index Nikkei .N225 ended down -0.08 pct, while in China
Shanghai index .SSEC was down -1.26 pct and Dow Jones index
.DJI in the United States 0.54 pct on Friday
(Reporting By Ole Petter Skonnord, editing by Terje Solsvik)
((olepetter.skonnord@thomsonreuters.com; 0047 23 31 65 97;))