Category: Financial / Investment
Unemployement rate in Norway has fallen to 2.6 percent in June, shows new figures from Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV). 71,500 people were registered as fully unemployed in June 2017. It is 9,500 fewer than in the same period of the previous year, according to NAV. – The positive trend we have seen in […]
Source: TNP.no
Category: Energy
Investors are increasingly serious about their environmental, social and corporate governance duties, withholding investment from industries they deem to be damaging the planet or society and using their votes to steer companies onto better paths. But that only works if they have a say in the boardrooms of the companies they help to finance—a voice […]
Source: Bloomberg
Category: AmCham News
Hosted by law firm Selmer at their spectacular Tjuvholmen offices, AmCham business leaders and partners enjoyed an interactive session with three agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, discussing preventative security measures, corruption and corporate safeguarding. FBI Analyst Deni Popovski, Supervisory Special Agent Marcie Soligo, and Supervisory Special Agent George McEachern shared their vast experience […]
Source: AmCham
Category: Business News
Bloomberg Government and the Norwegian-American Chamber of Commerce (together with DNB, Statoil, the Norwegian Consulate General, Amundsen Ventures, and Innovation Norway) hosted Pioneering Sustainable Solutions: Building the Economy of the Future, a series of in-depth conversations on how innovation, entrepreneurship and private and public partnership are being leveraged to build a better society—whether it’s investing in […]
Source: NACC
Category: Energy
Norway’s biggest bank is done comparing: The downturn in the country’s offshore services market has no precedent. “No one has seen a worse offshore market than what we’re going through now,” Kristin Holth, head of shipping, offshore and logistics at DNB ASA, said in an interview at the Nor-Shipping conference outside Oslo on Tuesday. “It […]
Source: Bloomberg