KIEV, Aug. 14 – The United States Department of Agriculture has forecast that the grain harvest in Ukraine in 2008 will be almost 45.5 million tons, which is 2.8 million tons higher than the previous forecast it made a month ago.

KIEV, Aug. 14 – The more than twofold increase in the deficit of the non-energy and non-metal balance of trade of Ukraine over the past three years is a worrying factor when the economic situation in the country is considered, Standard & Poor's said.

KIEV, Aug. 13 – Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee has allowed U.S.-based companies PepsiCo and PepsiAmericas to buy over 25% and 50%, respectively, in Ukraine's largest juice producer, Sandora Ltd., in Mykolaiv region, the AMC reported.

KIEV, Aug. 13 – The United States Department of Agriculture published a new grain report where it reviewed the forecast of Ukraine's coarse grain yield in 2007 downwards to 14.05 million tons from 15.41 million tons forecast by USDA a month earlier.

KIEV, Aug. 13 – Net profit of Kiev-based UkrNafta, Ukraine's largest oil producer, amounted to UAH405.409 million, down sharply from UAH1.134 billion in the first half of 2006.

KIEV, Aug. 13 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development may lend $65 million to Ukrainian oil transport company UkrTransNafta, the EBRD reported.

KIEV, Aug. 13 – It is necessary to prolong existing restrictions on grain exports, which expire Oct. 1, past their expiration date and until the end of the 2007/2008 marketing year, which runs through June, said the Ukrainian associations of meat and bread producers and Ukrspyrt, Ukraine's state alcohol industry concern.

KIEV, Aug. 13 – Odessa-based ChornomorEnergoSpetsMontazh Ltd. has started building the 110 kW Artsiz-Bolhrad and Bolhrad-Budzhak-Reni power transmission lines, OdessaOblEnergo, the electricity supply company that ordered the building of these lines, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 14 – Jitters on the international financial markets have reduced the interest of foreign investors in the bonds of Ukrainian issuers, according to First Deputy Board Chairman and the head of the financial markets department at Kiev-based ING Bank Ukraine, Valeria Hontareva.

KIEV, Aug. 14 - Ukraine will seek investors to implement projects to extract and use the methane gas that massively accompanies coal deposits at two big coal mines in Donetsk region, the coal industry ministry reported Tuesday.