Norway
Norges Bank's press conference
PRESS CONFERENCE - Monetary policy meeting of Norges Bank's Executive Board, 22 May.
Norges Bank press release
PRESS RELEASE - Norges Bank keeps interest rates unchanged, 22 May.
Norges Bank keeps interest rates unchanged
NORWAY - Interest rates were left unchanged at Norges Bank's Executive Board meeting on 22 May. Norges Bank's key interest rate, the sight deposit rate, remains at 6.5%.
Speech by Jarle Bergo of Norges Bank, 25 Apr
SPEECH - In a speech titled 'Oil - natural resource and financial asset' Bergo asks the question "Is an abundance of natural resources really an advantage?" and says that developing countries whose most important export is oil have generally recorded…
Speech by Svein Gjedrem of Norges Bank, 5 Apr
SPEECH - Gjedrem said in the speech titled 'Monetary policy and the outlook for the Norwegian economy' that high credit growth posed a risk to the Norwegian oil-backed economy. "The debt level in the households is increasing sharply," he said at a…
Speech by Svein Gjedrem of Norges Bank, 21 Mar
SPEECH - In the speech titled 'The economic situation in Norway' Gjedrem reiterated that the oil-backed economy was likely to escape a global downturn saying that "the effects of the global downturn on the activity level in Norway have been limited".
Norway central bank leaves key rates unchanged
NORWAY - Norges Bank, the Norwegian central bank, Wednesday left its key deposit rate unchanged at 6.50%, in line with market expectations.
Norges Bank's press conference of 10 April
PRESS CONFERENCE - Monetary policy meeting of Norges Bank's Executive Board.
Norges Bank keeps interest rates unchanged
PRESS RELEASE - Interest rates were left unchanged at Norges Bank's Executive Board meeting on 10 April. Norges Bank's key interest rate, the sight deposit rate, therefore remains at 6.50 per cent. The overnight lending rate also remains unchanged.
Speech by Svein Gjedrem of Norges Bank, 20 Mar
SPEECH - "The effects of the global downturn on the activity level in Norway have been limited," Svein Gjedrem said in a speech prepared for ambassadors stationed in Norway. The speech was titled 'The inflation target and the floating krone: The…
Norway c bank governor points to debt risk
NORWAY - Norway's central bank governor Svein Gjedrem reiterated on Friday that high credit growth posed a risk to the Norwegian oil-backed economy.
Speech by Svein Gjedrem of Norges Bank, 14 Mar
SPEECH - In a speech titled 'Monetary policy and wealth management' Gjedrem said "The Norwegian loan and capital market probably has weaknesses nevertheless, with thin securities markets and little breadth in investor and owner environments compared with…
Speech by Jarle Bergo, Deputy Governor Norges Bank
SPEECH - In the speech titled '' Jarle Bergo said that "if the growth in the global economy picks up again as we have assumed, we expect consumer price inflation to be about 2.5 percent in two years time."
Speech by Jarle Bergo, Dep Governor Norges Bank
SPEECH - Bergo says in the speech we must be prepared for changes in the functioning of the economy over time and that one knows precisely how different shocks will affect the economy or what effects fiscal and monetary policy instruments will have. A…
Speech by Svein Gjedrem Governor of Norges Bank
SPEECH - Address given by Norway's Central Bank Governor Svein Gjedrem at a conference hosted by the Federation of Norwegian Agricultural Cooperatives,Trondheim, 11 January 2002.
Speech by Jarle Bergo, Dep Governor Norges Bank
SPEECH - Speech by Deputy Central Bank Governor Jarle Bergo of Norges Bank. The speech titled 'Monetary policy in an uncertain world' considers Norway's current inflation policy and looks at the influence monetary policy has on the economy.
Speech by Svein Gjedrem Governor of Norges Bank
SPEECH - Speech by Central Bank Governor Svein Gjedrem of Norges Bank, Norway's central bank, at the conference on EMU and the euro hosted by The European Commission, Euro-Info Centre and NHO (Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry), Oslo, 30…
Speech by Svein Gjedrem, Governor of Norges Bank
SPEECH - Address by central bank of Norway, Norges Bank, Governor Svein Gjedrem at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Savings Banks Association, Haugesund, 18 October.
Speech by Svein Gjedrem Governor of Norges Bank
SPEECH - Address by Governor Svein Gjedrem, of Norges Bank, the central bank of Norway, at a meeting of the Mid-Norway Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 17 October.
Speech by Svein Gjedrem, Governor of Norges Bank
SPEECH - Speech by Svein Gjedrem, Governor of Norges Bank the central bank of Norway at a meeting of Sparebanken Nord-Norge, Troms, 25 September.
Speech by Jarle Bergo, Dep Governor Norges Bank
SPEECH - Speech by Jarle Bergo, Deputy Governor of Norges Bank, the central bank of Norway at the General Meeting of ACI Norge on 31 August.
Speech by Svein Gjedrem of Norway's central bank
SPEECH - The governor of Norway's central bank, Norges Bank, Svein Gjedrem, gave an address at the Wage Bargaining Conference of the Electricians and IT Workers' Union in Vestfold and Telemark counties on 24 August.
Speech by Svein Gjedrem of Norway's central bank
SPEECH - Speech by Central Bank of Norway Governor Svein Gjedrem at The Norwegian School of Management's Centre for Monetary Economics, 7 June.
New limited company for cash handling in Norway
NORWAY - Norges Bank, Den norske Bank ASA, Gjensidige Nor Sparebank, SpareBank 1 Gruppen AS, Terra-Gruppen AS, Fokus Bank ASA and Nordlandsbanken ASA have founded a joint limited company for cash handling.