Central Banks

Sweden and Norway May Follow Fed With Rate Hold: Decision Guide

A container ship docked at the Port of Oslo.

Photographer: Fredrik Solstad/Bloomberg

Policymakers in Sweden and Norway are poised to hold off on cutting interest rates this week as they confront mixed data and the economic fog of Donald Trump’s trade war.

Central banks in Stockholm and Oslo will set borrowing costs within half an hour of each other on Thursday, in their first decisions since the US president last month imposed tariffs on imports from the rest of the world.