KYIV, July 25 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has improved the gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for this year from 3% to 3.7%, but has downgraded the 2025 forecast from 5.3% to 4.1%, according to the updated macroeconomic forecast of the regulator.

KYIV, July 25 – Fitch Ratings has downgraded Ukraine's Long-Term Foreign-Currency (LTFC) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to 'C' from 'CC' due to the start of the eurobond restructuring process.

KYIV, July 25 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has worsened the price growth forecast for 2024 and 2025 by 0.3 and 0.6 percentage points (p.p.), respectively – to 8.5% and 6.6% primarily due to increased business costs for labor and electricity.

KYIV, July 26 - DTEK Energy Holding, when restoring thermal power plants damaged by Russian strikes, can cover approximately 10% of the needs with equipment from old European stations, said the holding’s executive director Dmytro Sakharuk.

KYIV, July 26 – Mikhail Fridman, who is under Ukrainian sanctions, indirectly owns about 7% of Turkcell and will not receive any proceeds from the sale of its Ukrainian subsidiary lifecell's assets to DVL Telecom, which is connected to French billionaire Xavier Niel, according to the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU), which approved the deal.

KYIV, July 26 – The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E), at the request of NPC Ukrenergo, is working on the possibility of increasing cross-border capacity for electricity imports from Europe to Ukraine and may make a decision before the onset of cold weather, said Board Chairman of the company Volodymyr Kudrytsky.

KYIV, July 27 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has improved its inflation forecast for 2023 from 14.8% to 10.6% since July 28, the press service of the regulator said on Thursday.

KYIV, July 27 - The National Bank of Ukraine raised the forecast for the growth of Ukraine's real gross domestic product in 2023 from 2% to 2.9%, but lowered it for 2024 from 4.3% to 3.5%, the central bank said on its website.

KYIV, July 27 – From July 28, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) decided to lower the key policy rate to 22% from the level of 25% at which it had kept it since June 6, 2022, in line with market expectations.

KYIV, July 27 – In the first half of 2023, lease transactions were concluded for 69,000 square meters of offices in Kyiv, which is 51% more than the same period in 2022, follows from the CBRE study.