Economic Bulletin articles from May 2000

Economic Bulletin archives from May 2000

Economic perspectives.(Norway's economic history and its future)(Statistical Data Included)(Transcript)
May 1, 2000... Annual address by Governor Svein Gjedrem at the meeting of the Supervisory Council of Norges Bank on Thursday 17 February 2000 We have just marked the turn of the millennium. Norway can look back at a century of upheaval -- the dissolution...

Evaluation of Norges Bank's projections.(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2000... This article analyses Norges Bank's projections for 1998, published in autumn 1996 and autumn 1997 respectively. Compared with earlier articles on this subject, we go one step further in the analysis by examining projections with a two-year...

New Working Papers from Norges Bank.(Bibliography)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2000... Norges Bank's Working Papers (Arbeidsnotater) present research projects (not necessarily in their final version), and are published among other reasons to enable the author to benefit from the comments of colleagues and interested parties. Only...

Financial institution balance sheets.(Norges Bank, Norway)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2000... Table 1. Norges Bank. Balance sheet (in millions of NOK) 31/12 31/10 30/11 1998 1999 1999 Foreign assets 321 882 375...

Securities statistics.(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2000... Table 12. Holdings of shares registered with the Norwegian Central Securities Depository (VPS), by holding sector. Estimated market value (in millions of NOK) 31/12 31/3 30/6 ...

Credit and liquidity trends.(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2000... Table 20. Inter-company loans. Amounts outstanding (in billions of NOK) 31/12 31/3 30/6 30/9 31/12 1998 1999 1999 1999 1999 Guaranteed by: Private finance...

Interest rate statistics.(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2000... Table 26. Nominal interest rates for NOK. Average (per cent annum) 1-month 3-month 12-month NIDR NIBOR NIDR NIBOR NIDR NIBOR 1999 March 7.4 7.3 7.1 6.9 6.1...

Profit/loss and capital adequacy data.(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2000... Table 34. Profit/loss and capital adequacy: commercial banks.(1) Percentage of average total assets 1997 1998 1999(3) Interest income 5.4 6.5 7.3...

Exchange rates.(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2000... Table 38. The international value of the krone and exchange rates against selected currencies. Monthly average of representative market rates Trade-weighted 1 krone ECU(2)/ 100 100 ...

Balance of Payments.(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2000... Table 40. Balance of payments (in millions of NOK) 1997 1999 Goods balance 76 962 10 041 Service balance 131 -7 559 Net...

International capital markets.(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2000... Table 42. Changes in banks' international assets (in billions of USD)(1) 1996 1997 1998 Total 532.7 1 286.2 239.1 Of which vis-a-vis: Non-banks ...

Foreign currency trading.(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2000... Table 46. Foreign exchange banks. Foreign exchange purchased/sold forward with settlement in Norwegian kroner(1) (in billions of NOK at end of month) Purchased net from: Other...