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Norwegian bonds might be great if you mainly transact in that currency, e.g. live/invest there, but would need to consider the trend against dollar or euro if you live in U.S. or EU and just hold funds in bonds denominated in NOK. Same for holding NOK.

The above seems to imply that you are afraid to loose money by NOK continuing it's trend to fall against the USD. If so I see no point in investing in NOK 4.4% bonds instead of US treasuries with similar returns.

My motivation is not higher rates than with USD (not much lower ones is good enough for me) but to hedge against a currently super-strong USD eventually falling from grace and against those other currencies, of the USD becoming again the 30%-70% lower against EUR/NZD/AUS/GBP/NOK it had been since 2005.

So what I am afraid of and is my motivation to diversify away from the USD is actually the opposite of what you are afraid of.

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