Markets Print edition: 2017-03-05

Norway cuts crown purchases

Published March 5, 2017 Updated March 5, 2017 12:00am

Norway's central bank will reduce its daily sale of foreign currency in March, it said on Tuesday. The bank will sell foreign exchange equivalent to 850 million Norwegian crowns per day. In February the level was 1.0 billion crowns per day. In order to make funds available to be spent as part of the government's fiscal budget, Norges Bank exchanges currency earned from the country's oil industry and its sovereign wealth fund into Norwegian crowns.