Bloomberg Norway’s $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund’s chief executive, Nicolai Tangen, is resisting pressure to sell Russian stocks now, saying doing so would be akin to a “gift” to the country’s oligarchs. The Oslo-based fund is the world’s biggest owner of publicly traded companies with a portfolio of about 9,000 stocks, and has about 0.2% of its assets invested ...

  Bloomberg Russia still has about $300 billion of foreign currency held offshore — enough to disrupt money markets if it’s frozen by sanctions or moved suddenly to avoid them. That’s according to Credit Suisse Group AG strategist Zoltan Pozsar, who parsed data from the Bank of Russia and financial markets to calculate that a much larger share is held ...

  Bloomberg Italy’s new plan to break its dependence on Russian gas may rely partly on an old source of energy: coal. Prime Minister Mario Draghi said Friday that the country could reopen some shuttered coal plants to help bridge its looming energy supply gap and cut its dependence on Russia, which currently accounts for 45% of Italian gas supplies. ...