Norway urged to drop ‘crazy’ ban on investment in defence companies

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Norway should drop a ban that is preventing its sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest, from investing in defence companies such as Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed Martin and Honeywell, the two main opposition parties have said.

Norway’s $1.8tn oil fund has been barred from holding stakes in most defence companies since the early 2000s when the country’s parliament…