KYIV, April 12 – Ukraine’s industrial prices increased by 1.6% on month in March, compared with 7.8% hike in February and 5.2% increase in January, the State Statistics Service reported on Monday.

KYIV, April 12 – Alfa-Bank (Kyiv) has raised the forecast of average annual inflation for 2021 from 7.3% to 8.5%, and inflation at the end of the period - from 8% to 8.6%, the head of the analytical department of the bank, Oleksiy Blinov, said.

KYIV, April 13 – Ukraine’s hotels and resorts will probably stay closed until July amid concerns that demand will remain weak in May and June due to coronavirus pandemic, industry officials said Monday.

KYIV, April 10 – Ukraine’s consumer prices rose by 0.8% on the months in March after falling by 0.3% in February, the State Statistics Service reported Monday.

At the same time, in March last year, price growth was even higher - 0.9%, therefore, in annual terms inflation in March 2020 slowed to 2.3% from 2.4% in February, 3.2% in January, and 4.1% over 2019.

KYIV, April 13 – Ukraine’s power output dropped 7.7% on the year to 40.28 billion kWh in January-March, reflecting weaker demand due to coronavirus quarantine and business closures, the Ministry of Energy and Environmental Protection reported.

KIEV, April 11 – U.S. General Electric Transportation is interested in investing in Ukraine, including the modernization of rolling stock of Ukrainian railways.

KIEV, April 12 - The National Bank of Ukraine has received documents to approve the sale of Sberbank's Ukrainian subsidiary to a consortium of investors, the central bank's press service told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 12 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers, under a proposal of the Finance Ministry, has approved the attraction of an external advisor who will advise the ministry in upgrade of the strategy for reforming state-owned banks.

KIEV, April 13 - Metinvest, a Ukrainian steel and mining group, began diversifying raw material supplies in 2014 considering the risks for assets in uncontrolled areas of Donbas.

KIEV, April 13 – Ukraine's Finance Ministry by late May is expected to approve the final steps to complete rehabilitation of PrivatBank.