Oslo Børs: Facts and figures November 2014

Statistics from Oslo Børs

• The Oslo Energy Index has fallen by 18% so far this year, and Oslo Børs has become 9 percentage points less exposed to oil-related shares. At the start of the year, shares in the energy sector accounted for 43.6% of the total market capitalisation of shares listed on Oslo Børs. By November, this had fallen to 34.3%, down by 9.3 percentage points since the start of the year. Oslo Børs less exposed to oil.
• Big price movements lead to increased activity. The average daily value of trading in November was NOK 5.3 billion, with an average of 118, 200 transactions daily. The number of transactions was 48% higher than for the same month in 2013. The average daily value of trading for the year to date is now NOK 4.3 billion, with a daily average of 92, 500 transactions.
• The Norwegian fixed income market is growing strongly. Companies have raised more loan capital on the Oslo Børs fixed income marketplaces this year than ever before. In November alone, companies raised NOK 27.9 billion in loan capital from new bond issues and increases to existing issues. So far this year, the volume of new issues, excluding issues by the Norwegian government, has reached NOK 296.8 billion. This is NOK 17.1 billion more than the record of NOK 279.6 billion set last year.
• This strong growth is related to the increasing number of companies choosing to have their fixed income securities listed on the Oslo Børs marketplaces. So far this year, the number of issues listed has increased by 123 to 1, 693, and at the same time the total value of fixed income securities has increased by NOK 92 billion to NOK 1, 506 billion.