KYIV, May 10 – A senior Ukrainian government team traveled to Washington to discuss potential purchases of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) and joint opposition to Gazprom’s plans to build Nord Stream 2 pipelines that carry Russian gas to Europe bypassing Ukraine.

KYIV, May 10 – JP Morgan has downgraded eurobonds of state-owned Oschadbank (due in 2023 and 2025) and Ukreximbank (due in 2022 and 2025) from Neutral (N) to Underweight (UW) due to sovereign risks, according to a review about the Ukrainian banks issued on April 30.

KYIV, May 10 – The most profitable Ukrainian bank in January-March 2019 was PrivatBank, with UAH 7.612 billion of net profit, according to a posting on the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).

KYIV, May 10 – Ukrzaliznytsia could fail to fulfill the plan for capital investments because of the need to pay more than $150 million on eurobonds in the second half of this year, Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan.

KYIV, May 10 – Exports of Ukrainian agricultural products to the European Union (EU) in January-March 2019 grew by 24.4% year-over-year, to $1.88 billion, acting Agricultural Policy and Food Minister of Ukraine Olha Trofimtseva has said.

KIEV, May 10 - The managers of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will discuss the investment climate in Ukraine and the ways to improve it at their annual meeting, Ukraine's Finance Ministry reported.

KIEV, May 11 – The International Monetary Fund and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have confirmed their forecast for growth of Ukraine's GDP at 2% in 2017, according to the surveys of the institutions published on Thursday.

KIEV, May 11 – The Odessa region's appeals court on May 10 upheld the decision of the Yuzhne city court on satisfying a motion by Ostchem [owned by Dmytro Firtash] on implementing the ruling of the Stockholm Arbitration Court to collect $193 million in debts from the Odessa Port-Side Chemical Plant (OPP), not including fines and penalties, according to acting head of Ukraine's State Property Fund Dmytro Parfenenko.

KIEV, May 11 – The Ukroboronprom State Concern has signed a memorandum to step up cooperation with the Undersecretariat for Defence Industries of the Defence Ministry of Turkey.

KIEV, May 11 – The interagency commission for international trade in Ukraine has introduced final antidumping duties of 26% on imports of caustic soda of RD grade originating from Russia (foreign activity code 2815 12 00 10) for five years.