Morning Comment Norway-06/19/2026

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Morning Comment Norway-06/19/2026

Morning Comment Norway

19 JUN 2026

Foreign markets S&P 500 intraday

7,520

• US – US equities finished higher in Thursday trading, ending near best levels.

Semis/memory rallied again; big tech was broadly higher with NVDA-US and 7,500

AMZN-US notable gainers. Market rallied, shaking off Wednesday's hawkish 7,480

FOMC takeaways and seeing yields give back some yesterday's backup.

Major market indices notched gains in the holiday-shortened week. 7,460

• Asia – Asia equities lower Friday in thin trade. All major benchmarks now in 7,440

the red despite a bright start with stocks sold off on news that US-Iran talks 7,420

in Switzerland due to take place today were called off. Japan, South Korea,

India and Singapore benchmarks all lower, although losses capped to around 7,400

16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00

1%.

• Oil prices – Yesterday Crude benchmarks trade down to their lowest levels

since the first session of trading following the start of the war. This after the US and Asia indices (at time of publication)

United States and Iran Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding 2.50% 1.91%

that frees up shipping in the SoH while the two sides work out more granular 2.00%

details of a peace agreement over the coming 60 days. The market appears 1.50% 1.08%

to be loosening up with traffic picking up in the SoH. 1.00%

0.50% 0.14%

Please see Morning Update for relevant share prices and market 0.00%

-0.50% -0.07%

-0.43%

-1.00%

-1.50%

-2.00% -1.59%

Dow S&P 500 Nasdaq Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Shanghai

S&P sector performance

-6.0% -4.0% -2.0% 0.0% 2.0% 4.0% 6.0%

Semiconductors 4.9%

Retail 2.4%

Airlines 2.4%

Technology & Hardware 1.7%

Media & Entertainment 1.3%

Utilities 0.7%

Chemicals -0.2%

Software -0.7%

Insurance -0.8%

Telecom -1.1%

Pharma -1.3%