This will affect the Oslo Stock Exchange on Friday
Of the pre-trade on the trading platform IG, the Oslo Stock Exchange is down 1.63 percent as before at 07.00 Friday.
Roger Berntsen, analyst at Nordnet, believes the main index will open 1.7 percent or within the range [-2, -1,4] percentage.
Corona concern
A new variant of the coronavirus, which is to blame for an explosive outbreak in South Africa, raises several concerns.
According to NTB, 22 cases of the virus variant, which has also been detected in Botswana and Hong Kong among people who have been to South Africa, must have been detected in advance.
According to the news agency, the World Health Organization WHO says that it “follows closely” the variant, and that a meeting is expected on Friday.
Asia
In Japan, the Nikkei is down 2.84 percent, while the broader Topix index is down 2.16 percent.
Shanghai Composite in China is down 0.76 percent, Hang Seng in Hong Kong is down 2.52 percent, while Kospi in South Korea is down 1.41 percent.
In India, Sensex declined 2.30 percent, the S & P / ASX 200 index in Australia fell 1.73 percent and the Straits Times in Singapore fell 1.45 percent.
Read the full Asia update here.
Oil prices
Brent oil is down 2.48 percent to $ 80.20 a barrel on Friday morning, while WTI oil is down 2.53 percent to $ 76.04 a barrel.
In comparison, a fat North Sea oil was traded for 81.85 dollars a barrel at the close of trading in Oslo on Thursday.
USA
On Wall Street, it was closed on Thursday as a result of Thanksgiving.
Oslo Børs
The Oslo Stock Exchange was in the red for a long time through Thursday trading, but ended up, after falling 0.5 and 0.7 percent from previous days. The main index rose 0.14 percent to 1,213.72 points.
John Fredriksen’s dry cargo giant Golden Ocean Group excelled again, after Wednesday’s byks. On Thursday, the Fredriksen share rose 4.2 percent to 81.35 kroner, and it has reached over 100 percent in 2021.
Nel rose as much as 10.7 percent to 18.78 kroner after receiving a contract worth around 11 million euros, around 110 million kroner.