Investing.com – Norway stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Auto & components, Capital Goods and Energy sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Oslo, the Oslo OBX fell 0.47%.
The best performers of the session on the Oslo OBX were Opera Software ASA (OSLO:OPERA), which rose 4.55% or 2.95 points to trade at 67.85 at the close. Meanwhile, Yara International ASA (OSLO:YAR) added 1.83% or 7.4 points to end at 411.0 and Orkla ASA (OSLO:ORK) was up 1.68% or 1.05 points to 63.55 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Aker Solutions OL (OSLO:AKSOL), which fell 4.28% or 1.98 points to trade at 44.33 at the close. Subsea 7 SA (OSLO:SUBC) declined 4.11% or 3.3 points to end at 77.0 and Seadrill Limited (OSLO:SDRL) was down 3.68% or 3.1 points to 82.5.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Oslo Stock Exchange by 106 to 71 and 2 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 0.76% or 0.46 to $59.81 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 0.50% or 0.32 to hit $63.17 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.03% or 0.30 to trade at $1172.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/NOK was down 0.55% to 8.7502, while USD/NOK fell 0.44% to 7.8167.
The US Dollar Index was unchanged 0.00% at 95.45.