* Payments depend on performance * Oslo seeks reward S.American nation with high forest cover OSLO, Nov 9 - Norway agreed on Monday to pay Guyana up to $250 million by 2015 to preserve forests...
OSLO, March 28 - Oil-rich Norway said it was ready to offer up to 30 billion Norwegian crowns ($4.56 billion) to the International Monetary Fund to boost the lender's capacity to help out crisis-hit countries....
OSLO, Nov 3 - The Norwegian finance ministry and central bank said on Monday that Norway would lend the Icelandic central bank 500 million euros ($644 million), and extend an existing forex swap agreement through...
OSLO, Oct 28 - Norway's central bank increased its key interest rate by a quarter point to 1.5 percent on Wednesday -- Europe's first monetary policy tightening since the global economic crisis bit hard last...
China's largest offshore oil company, China National Offshore Oil Corp, is in talks with Norway's StatoilHydro to buy an interest in oil field leases in U.S. waters in the Gulf of Mexico, sources reported. Kai Nielsen, spokesman for the Norwegian firm, said that the firm will probably sell a minority stake did not...
OSLO, Aug 3 - Norwegian police on Monday charged the Chinese captain of a dry bulk vessel for not warning the coastal authorities that his ship was in danger during a storm last week that...
OSLO, June 23 - Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday that Norwegian telecom group Telenor's multi-billion-dollar legal battle in Russia must be solved by the Russian justice system. Russian bailiffs are moving closer...
OSLO, Jan 6 - Norway's finance minister has ordered a review of investments by the country's $300 billion wealth fund in companies active in the Palestinian territories after Israel's crackdown in the Gaza Strip, officials...
NEW YORK, Dec 25 - Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), a unit of Norway's central bank responsible for managing the government's pension fund, will continue to boost its holdings of Japanese stocks for the next...
SANTIAGO, Sept 3 - Norway's $400 billion sovereign wealth fund will be worth around $600 billion by 2011 and around $1 trillion by 2020, a senior Norwegian finance ministry official forecast on Wednesday. Martin Skancke,...