KIEV, June 15 – The cabinet has asked Parliament to permit exports of Ukrainian natural gas, which will allow National JSC Naftogaz Ukrayiny to fulfill an agreement with Poland's PGNiG on gas supplies to the country.

KIEV, June 14 – The National Bank of Ukraine has a full set of financial tools to support the hryvnia exchange rate, which will vary within UAH 7.8-7.9 per U.S. dollar in the quarters to come, said Anatoly Baliuk, the executive director of the National Bank of Ukraine for currency regulations and supervision.

KIEV, June 14 – The Nibulon agricultural company has tripled the financing of its investment project on the recovery of transportation on the Dnipro and Pivdenny Buh rivers from $150 million to $470 million, which includes the building of its own fleet and elevators, and in particular, river terminals.

KIEV, June 15 – Ukraine expects to additionally receive 20 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas from alternative sources such as shale oil gas, coalmine methane and through supplies of liquefied gas over the next five years, Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko said on the Inter TV channel.

KIEV, June 12 – The Ukrainian government will inject UAH9.474 billion at par in government domestic loan bonds falling due in 2017-2012 and with a 9.5% annual yield into the charter capital of Ukrgasbank, Rodovid Bank and Kiev Bank.

KIEV, June 12 – Sales of new passenger cars in Ukraine in January to May 2009 fell by almost four times year-over-year, to 71,165 cars, which is 5.5% less than the same five-month indicator of 2004 (when 73,300 cars were sold), said Elena Dunina, head of AUTO International (Mazda, Suzuki).

She said that the pace of sales reflects the distressing prospects for the market.

KIEV, June 12 – XXI Century Development Company has proposed to holders of its eurobonds worth $175 million issued in May 2007 a final option for the company's debt restructuring until 2014.

KIEV, June 15 – New biofuel production companies are to be launched in Ukraine in 2009, Oleksandr Shevchenko, the deputy agriculture minister, said at the Ukrainian-German bioenergy forum in Kiev.

KIEV, June 15 – Ukrainian metals companies in 2009 are expected to cut steel output by 18-22% year-over-year, to 28.9-30.4 million tons, according to Phoenix Capital Investment Company.

KIEV, June 15 ??“ Ukrainian companies could attract about $1.3 billion on international capital markets via IPOs and pre-IPOs within the next three years, Troika Dialog, a leading Russian investment bank, said.