KYIV, April 13 – J.P. Morgan is committed to its forecast of 5.6% growth for Ukraine's economy in 2021, despite continuing quarantine restrictions, the bank said in its April commentary.

KYIV, April 14 – ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaker, will invest $1 billion during the next three years to make steel production at its Ukrainian subsidiary environmentally friendly, the company said Wednesday.

KYIV, April 14 – Ukrainians will probably travel domestically after quarantine is over through the end of 2020 season as international travel may still be restricted due to coronavirus pandemic, Fazil Askerov, the chairman of the Tourism Association in Odesa region, said.

KYIV, April 10 – S&P Global Ratings has lowered its long-term issuer credit rating on Ukrzaliznytsia to 'CCC' from 'B-', S&P said in a press release.

"We now view Ukrzaliznytsia's liquidity as weak, because we believe that COVID-19-related challenges could limit its access to capital markets and affect its ability to generate cash flow from operations," S&P said.

KYIV, April 13 – Power consumption in Ukraine in January-March 2020, taking into account in-process losses in power grids, fell by 5.6% (by 2.366 billion kWh) compared to January-March 2019, to 39.644 billion kWh, the Ministry of Energy and Environment Protection has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 13 – Parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill that temporarily, until December 31, 2017, cuts the excise duties on used passenger cars by 50-96.4% to minimize the schemes of temporary importation for tax evasions.

KIEV, April 13 – Ukraine's State Food-Grain Corporation seeks to specify some provisions of the Chinese contract in part of uniqueness of partnership of China National Complete Engineering Corporation and principles of forming grain prices.

KIEV, April 13 - The consumer confidence of Ukrainians deteriorated in March, with the Consumer Confidence Index at 50.6, which is 3.6 points lower than in February, GfK Ukraine reported on Monday.

KIEV, April 13 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny chief Andriy Kobolev does not believe that an amicable agreement in the dispute with Russia's Gazprom being heard by the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce could be signed.

KIEV, April 14 – The Business Court of Kiev has returned without review the particulars of claim of Russia's Gazprom on the complaint about the decision of the Ukrainian Antimonopoly Committee to set a fine in the amount of UAH 85.966 billion ($3.4 billion at the current exchange rate].