KYIV, Jan 10 – U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross has expressed his satisfaction with the final determinations in the anti-dumping duty investigations of imports of carbon and alloy steel wire rod (wire rod) from South Africa and Ukraine, which will allow protecting U.S. producers.

KYIV, Jan 10 – Motor Sich, a Zaporizhia-based aircraft engine maker, issued an official announcement about the loss of control over the assets of the Snizne Machine-Building Plant, which is the part of the company and is located in the area of Donetsk region beyond Ukrainian government control.

KYIV, Jan 11 - Ukrainian vehicle manufacturers produced 8,586 vehicles in 2017, which was 63% more than in 2016; the output of passenger cars alone increased by 68.1%, to 7,296 units, the Ukrautoprom Association has reported.

KYIV, Jan 12 - Reactor No. 3 of South-Ukrainian nuclear power plant (NPP) automatically reduced output to 590 MW at 22:45 local time on January 11 as a result of the shutdown of main circulation pump No. 1 by the automatic protection system, the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine reported on its website.

KYIV, Jan 12 - Ukraine has 452.8 billion cubic meters of natural gas available to be extracted from its soil, Chairman of NAK Nadra Ukrayiny’s board Yaroslav Klymovych wrote in his article in the government's Uriadovy Kurier newspaper.

KYIV, Jan 12 – Clare Spottiswoode, a British national, was elected chairperson of the supervisory board of Naftogaz Ukrainy to supervise crucial reform in the energy sector, the company's press service reported.

KYIV, Jan 12 - The Ukrainian government has cancelled the decisions it made in 2017 on the establishment of state-owned concerns Arsenal-Modern Space Systems and Zirka-Technologies on the basis of several enterprises operating in the space industry.

KIEV, Jan. 11 – UniCredit Group (UCG) and ABH Holdings S.A. (ABHH), which indirectly owns 100% of shares in Alfa-Bank Ukraine via the holding company ABH Ukraine Limited, have signed an agreement for the transfer of 100% of Ukrsotsbank, or USB, (UCG's bank in Ukraine) in exchange for a minority 9.9% stake in ABHH, Alfa-Bank said in a press release on Monday.

KIEV, Jan. 13 - Bosch (Stuttgart, Germany), one of the leading auto parts and industrial equipment producers in the world, does not plan to build new plants in the Eastern region (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Central Asia and Caucasus) in the coming three or five years, including in Ukraine, Representative of the Bosch Group for the region and Robert Bosch CEO (Moscow, Russia) Gerhard Pfeifer said.

KIEV. Jan 13 – Ukraine has climbed 17 positions in the Global Services Location Index (GSLI) that analyzes and ranks the top 55 countries for outsourcing worldwide, from 41st in 2014 to 24th in 2016, according to a report of U.S. A.T.Kearney management consulting firm.