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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Norwegian Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg said politicians suspended ethics rules governing the world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund after the divestment of Caterpillar Inc. stock stoked fears of a firesale of tech holdings, worth as much as $230 billion. The move by the $2.1 trillion fund came after ethics advisers pushed it to sell shares in Caterpillar Inc. in August because its bulldozers are used in the war in Gaza. That risked setting a “template,” Stoltenberg said in an interview Monday in Oslo. The rules could have led to the fund being told to sell off its most profitable shares.
