KIEV, April 13 – Total investment in commercial real estate in Ukraine in 2008 was around $430 million, which is 14% less year-over-year.

Kiev-based Colliers International consulting company, referring to its annual report on the real estate market, said all deals last year were signed in January to September.

KIEV, April 13 – Russia's RUSAL has denied a statement of the State Property Fund of Ukraineon the non-fulfillment of conditions of an agreement on sale and purchase of a stake in OJSC Zaporizhia Aluminum Combine (ZAlK), the country's only aluminum smelter.

KIEV, April 10 - Ukraine reduced electricity exports 40.8% to 1.734 billion kilowatt hours in the first quarter of 2008 compared to the same period of 2007, the Fuel and Energy Ministry told Interfax.

ZAPORIZHIA, April 10 – Zaporizhstal Steel Mill has signed a contract on the supply of equipment for converter steel production with Austria's Siemens-VAI, the mill told Interfax-Ukraine.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, April 13 ??“ Antonio Merloni SpA, Italy??™s household equipment producer, in September 2006 intends to launch a production line of automatic washing machines under the Ardo trademark in Ukraine, a regional official said Thursday.

KIEV, April 13 ??“ The number of cell phone users will reach 40 million in Ukraine by the end of 2006, Antonina Mandrykina, an official at the National Commission on Regulation of Communication, said.

MOSCOW, April 13 - Moving mass production of helicopter engines from Ukraine to Russia is unprofitable for both states, Viacheslav Bohuslayev, director general of the Zaporizhia-based Motor Sich Company, said on Thursday.

KIEV, April 13 - Ukrainian stocks rose Wednesday amid signs the government will use a transparent scheme in deciding which companies will be re-privatized this year, traders said.

KYIV, March 12 – The National Securities and Stock Market Commission has been working for two years together with colleagues from the State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving to ensure that biofuels are traded on Ukrainian exchanges, Arsen Ilyin, a member of the National Securities and Market Commission, said.

KYIV, March 12 – Some 41% of CEOs of European Business Association (EBA) member companies expect income growth in dollar terms in 2024, another 35% expect income to be at the level of the previous year, and 24% predict a reduction, according to the results of a new wave of the EBA survey "Business in wartime."