KYIV, Sept 14 – SCM Group owner Rinat Akhmetov remains the richest Ukrainian in 2019 according to the Focus magazine, with fortune of $7.2 billion.

According to the list, owner of Interpipe Victor Pinchuk with $2.4 billion and owner of Group DF Dmytro Firtash with $1.7 billion are second and third on the list.

LONDON, Sept 14 – S&P Global Ratings affirmed its global scale long-term foreign and local currency sovereign ratings on Ukraine at 'B' and its Ukraine national scale ratings at 'uaA'.

KYIV, Sept 11 – Mobile communications operator Kyivstar is expanding 4G technology in popular tourist places in Ukraine, including Lake Synevyr and the slopes of Hoverla Mount, the company's press service said on Friday.

KYIV, Sept 11 - The fall in Ukraine's GDP in January-July 2020 slowed down to 6.2% compared to 6.5% in the first half of this year, according to the economic activity review for the seven months of 2020, published by the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture.

KYIV, Sept 12 - The number of Ukrainian tourists to Russia in the first half of 2017 increased by 56.1%, while the number of those who left for Poland decreased by 45.4%.

KYIV, Sept 12 – The national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny may go for a potential initial public offering (IPO), Naftogaz CEO Andriy Kobolev has said.

KYIV, Sept 12 – Mriya agroholding CEO Simon Cherniavsky assesses the value of the company at $150 million with a prospect of growing to $250-350 million depending on investment climate and vision of a potential buyer.

KYIV, Sept 12 – The funding of transactions linked to foreign trade totals around 4-5% of the loan portfolio of Ukrainian banks, Senior Banker of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Director of the financial department in Ukraine Oleksandr Pavlov has said.

KYIV, Sept 12 - Money supply in Ukraine in August 2017 narrowed by 0.9%, to UAH 1.104 trillion, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) reported.

The central bank said that the pace is linked to the decrease in off-bank cash by 0.7%, to UAH 309.161 billion and deposits in the national currency – by 1%, to UAH 794.986 billion.

KIEV, Sept. 8 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has ordered a schedule drawn up according to which natural gas stockpiled in underground storage facilities will reach 17 billion cubic meters (bcm) by Nov. 1.