KYIV, Jan 11 – The National Securities and Stock Market Commission decided to admit securities included in the S&P500 stock index to circulation on the territory of Ukraine, which will increase the total number of foreign securities that can be traded on the domestic market five times - more than up to 500.

KYIV, Jan 11 - ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) in 2022 paid UAH 8.8 billion in taxes and fees to the budgets of all levels, which is 39.7% less than the total amount of tax payments for 2021 (UAH 14.6 billion).

KYIV, Jan 13 – The Lekhim group of pharmaceutical companies (Kyiv) plans to register in Ukraine a vaccine against coronavirus (COVID-19) disease produced by the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech until February 5, after the vaccine is registered in Brazil, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Lekhim group of pharmaceutical companies Valeriy Pechayev said Wednesday.

KYIV, Jan 13 – Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova, known as GUAM bloc, are working on launching free trade area (FTA) agreement in order to further boost cooperation in the region, Yuriy Hrynevetsky, representative of the Department of Economic Diplomacy of the Foreign Ministry, said.

KYIV, Jan 14 - The State Tax Service from 2021, due to the transformation into a single legal entity, has radically changed the work with big business, but did not inform companies about this, the European Business Association (EBA) has reported.

KYIV, Jan 14 – The International Monetary Fund has expressed concerns over Ukraine’s plans to cut natural gas prices for households and has already contacted senior government officials about that, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said Thursday.

KYIV, Jan 13 – Energy Minister Yuriy Vitrenko calls on Naftogaz Ukrayiny to more actively seek the transfer by Gazprom of the point of sale of resources to the border with the Russian Federation, which would make it possible to form the gas price on the basis of the "hub minus" principle.

KYIV, Jan 13 – Money supply in Ukraine in December 2019 expanded by 7.7%, to UAH 1.435 trillion, the relevant data of monetary statistics have been posted on the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).

KYIV, Jan 13 – Velta industrial and commercial firm LLC with titanium ore production assets in Ukraine (Kirovohrad region) has agreed to supply $100 million of ilmenite, a titanium feedstock, under a five-year supply contract with the Traxys Group, a global commodity trading group, aimed at meeting the needs of the North American market.

KYIV, Jan 13 – Turkey's fashion retailer LC Waikiki will open the largest store of the chain in Ukraine in River Mall in Kyiv in the first quarter of 2020, and plans to open another 60 stores in the country by 2023.