Stockholm/Oslo  - Nordic bourses dipped Tuesday, the day after US investment banker Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection, triggering a global decline on stock markets.

In Oslo, the OSEBX index was down 3 per cent in mid-morning trading, shares in oil companies decling as crude prices dropped.

The Stockholm bourse index was down roughly 1 per cent with, higher losses for banking shares as well as energy sector shares.

Swedish central bank governor Stefan Ingves told Swedish radio news that the Swedish finance system was stable, and said that Sweden experienced a greater financial crisis in the early 1990s when the economy contracted three years in a row. (dpa)