Oil Fund -4.8% due to bonds losses

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NORWAY- The Government Pension Fund - Global posted a loss of 4.8% for the first quarter of 2009.

Norges Bank, which manages the assets of the so-called Oil Fund said in a statement this represented a negative return relative to the benchmark portfolio of 0.3 percentage point, equivalent to NOK...

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