KIEV, April 15 - Investment into fixed capital in Ukraine in 2009 came to UAH 151.78 billion, which was 41.5% down year-on-year, according to the State Statistics Committee.

KIEV, April 13 – Ukrainians have lost practically all their confidence in banks, according to Volodymyr Leonov, director of the Center analytical group, said in the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia weekly.

KIEV, April 13 – Sales of new passenger cars in 2009 could fall to 120,000-140,000, less than one-fourth their 2008 level, according to Bogdan Corporation President Oleh Svynarchuk.

"If at the end of last year passenger car market players foresaw a 50% fall at most this year compared to the previous one [to 320,000-400,000], after the results of sales in February 2009 they forecasted a fall to 250,000-270,000 cars, and taking into account the results of Q1, one can forecast that only 120,000-140,000 cars would be sold, and at best –160,000 cars," he said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 14 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has placed its 'CCC+' long-term issuer credit rating and senior unsecured debt rating on the city of Kiev on CreditWatch with negative implications.

KIEV, April 14 – The deficit of Ukraine's foreign trade in commodities January through February 2009 was estimated at $708.3 million, down from $2.759 billion, the State Statistics Committee reported on Monday.

ZAPORIZHIA, April 15 – Kiev-based EuroCape Ukraine I, part of EuroCape New Energy Limited of EuroCape Group, plans to invest EUR 600 million in the construction of a wind-driven power plant in Zaporizhia’s Pryazovsky district.

KIEV, April 14 – Japan has asked member states of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization for observer status, Serhiy Korsunsky, the head of the economic cooperation department at the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine told the press at a briefing on Monday.

KIEV, April 14 – Ukraine will be about 2.5 million tons short of cement this year, while in 2007 the figure was 2 million tons, Ukrcement CEO Petro Lopatiev said.

KIEV, April 15 – Ukraine's joining the World Trade Organization would positively impact its export-import structure, according to experts of Ukrainian investment companies polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 15 – Ukraine and Romania plan to hold further consultations on the completion of the construction of Kryvy Rih Oxidized Ore Mill (KGOKOR) in Dolysnke in Kirovohrad region, according to a report of the State Property Fund of Ukraine after a meeting of the Ukrainian and Romanian delegations held on April 7 and April 8 in Bucharest.