Oslo rental rates skyrocket
Publisert: 11:45 03-10-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
With home prices still high and mortgages harder to get, demand for housing is sending residential rental rates through the roof in Oslo. |
 
 |
|
Market turbulence wipes out oil fund´s stock gains
Publisert: 11:25 03-10-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s sovereign wealth fund known as the "oil fund" has invested nearly 1,000 billion Norwegian kroner in the stock market since its start-up 10 years ago. This year´s market declines have wiped out all the fund´s gains. |
|
|
Red Cross workers bullied
Publisert: 10:43 03-10-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
An internal survey of workers at the Norwegian Red Cross has revealed that nearly a fourth of them have seen co-workers bullied or harassed on the job. Management at the humanitarian aid agency is "surprised." |
|
|
Fire halts Oslo-Bergen line
Publisert: 15:47 02-10-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The main rail link over the mountains between Oslo and Bergen was blocked Thursday by a fire in one of the shelters meant to keep snow off the tracks. |
|
|
Javelin star wins award
Publisert: 15:29 02-10-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s Andreas Thorkildsen was named European Athlete of the Year for 2008 on Thursday, not least for successfully defending his Olympic men´s javelin title in Beijing this summer. |
|
|
No bears shot yet
Publisert: 14:39 02-10-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
This year´s annual bear hunt hasn´t resulted in any trophies for hunters. Just two weeks of the authorized hunt remain. |
|
|
Norway´s Nobel Committee poised for renewal
Publisert: 13:28 02-10-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
The terms are soon up for both the leader and the deputy leader of the committee that chooses the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. That means some new faces from the socialist side of Norwegian politics will soon make their entry. |
|
|
Majority oppose a Winter Olympics in Tromsø
Publisert: 12:08 02-10-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A new public opinion poll indicates that boosters of a Winter Olympics in the far northern city of Tromsø in 2018 have little support from their fellow Norwegians. |
|
|
Unemployment on the rise
Publisert: 11:16 02-10-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
New figures from Norway´s state welfare agency indicate that the jobless rate is already rising. Government officials, meanwhile, claim they´re prepared to tackle a new economic downturn. |
|
|
Investigators identify virus as cause of hotel epidemic
Publisert: 10:36 02-10-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegian food safety authorities have identified the virus that to date has left around 200 guests and staff at an Oslo-area hotel violently ill. The source of the virus, however, remains a mystery. |
|
|
First snow of the season
Publisert: 14:24 01-10-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
It´s still only autumn, but temperatures fell in the mountains of southern Norway during the night and a low pressure system moved in. That left vast areas white. |
|
|
Foreign Ministry seeks to halt clothing store´s flag abuse
Publisert: 13:54 01-10-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norway´s foreign ministry is taking legal action against a German clothing store´s use of the Norwegian flag in its logo. The store and its clothing cater to a neo-Nazi clientele. |
|
|
Ferry firm set to shut down
Publisert: 13:21 01-10-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Kystlink, which ran ferries between Langesund in Norway, Strömstad in Sweden and Hirtshals in Denmark announced Wednesday that it planned to go out of business. Layoffs loom. |
|
|
Housing prices tumble, but home loans harder to get
Publisert: 11:44 01-10-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Prospective home buyers are suddenly able to snap up properties at prices below appraisals in Oslo. At the same time, however, banks are finally cracking down and setting higher lending standards. Some borrowers are being told they must be able to tolerate interest rates of more than 11 percent. |
|
|
Deposit insurance fund claimed to be ´strong´
Publisert: 11:31 01-10-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Leaders of the state fund aimed at insuring deposits at Norwegian banks say they have adequate reserves to aid or even rescue the banks they were set up to protect. |
|
|
Money market rates soar
Publisert: 10:35 01-10-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Norwegian money market interest rates jumped again on Wednesday, some surging more than 100 basis points from Tuesday, due to persistent tightness in dollar funding. |
|
|
Markets dive on opening, then rebound strongly
Publisert: 17:40 30-09-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
Share prices on the Oslo Stock Exchange, which logged its worst one-day fall in 17 years on Monday, continued to dive on Tuesday but then sharply rose. Norway´s central bank made a new effort to boost liquidity, and the finance minister admitted market turbulence was "stronger than feared." |
|
|
Food poisoning toll rises
Publisert: 15:53 30-09-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
More than 170 persons have now been registered as victims of food poisoning at the Clarion Hotel Gardermoen over the weekend. Food safety authorities continue their probe into the source of vomiting and diarrhea. |
|
|
More chilling testimony revealed in war crimes trial
Publisert: 15:17 30-09-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A Serbian doctor told a court in Oslo that she was tortured and raped more than 30 times in 47 days while held in a Bosnian-controlled prison camp in 1992. Her alleged tormentor now lives in Norway, and is the defendant in the country´s first war crimes trial since World War II. |
|
|
Huge cost threatens plans for Winter Olympics in Tromsø
Publisert: 13:20 30-09-2008 Kilde: Aftenposten
A Winter Olympics in Tromsø in 2018 would be twice as expensive as previously thought, according to an official report that three accounting and certification firms were asked to prepare for the state. The price tag may kill what little public and political support there´s been for the project. |
|
|
