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  • An aerial drone view of the city centre of Zurich, Limmat River, Lake ZurichFinance

    Wealthy Norwegians flee to Switzerland to evade high wealth taxes, with their bankers following

    By Ott Ummelas and Bloomberg
  • Buildings in the Bardcode Project financial district in Oslo, Norway.Finance

    This fossil fuel-rich Scandinavian country topped its highest GDP growth estimates in January

    By Ott Ummelas and Bloomberg
  • Lettering spelling out Riksbank adorns a desk ahead of a Sveriges Riksbank news conference at the central bank headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019. Sweden’s central bank ended half a decade of subzero easing in a move that will provide relief to the finance industry and a test case for global counterparts experimenting with negative borrowing costs. Photographer: Mikael Sjoberg/BloombergFinance

    New digital currency study leads Swedish Central Bank to push back plans for digital currency—again

    By Rafaela Lindeberg, Ott Ummelas, and others
  • Kjerstin Braathen, chief executive officer of DNB ASA, in her offices in Oslo, Norway, on Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. DNB has been doing ESG lending for “the last couple of years,” Braathen says. Photographer: Odin Jaeger/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInternational

    The world’s most gender-diverse corporation credits childcare as its key to success

    By Ott Ummelas, Kati Pohjanpalo, and others
  • Nicolai Tangen is pictured during a press conference on his employment contract, as he has been appointed new general manager of Norges Bank Investment Management, on May 28, 2020 in Oslo. (Photo by Håkon Mosvold Larsen / NTB Scanpix / AFP) / Norway OUT (Photo by HAKON MOSVOLD LARSEN/NTB Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    Tech rally drove $123 billion return in 2020 for world’s largest sovereign wealth fund

    By Ott Ummelas, Lars Erik Taraldsen, and others