KIEV, June 11 - The United States Department of Agriculture forecasts the export of Ukrainian grain at 12.52 million tons in the 2009/2010 marketing year, which is 500,000 tons down on the forecast it made a month ago.

KIEV, June 11 – The additional capitalization of Ukrgasbank, Bank Kyiv and Rodovid Bank would dilute the value of their shares, according to experts from investment companies polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, June 11 – Specialists from the European Commission, the International Atomic Energy Agency, EnergoAtom and the Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Ministry from June 2 to June 5 discussed the realization of joint projects at Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the information center of the plant reported on Wednesday.

KIEV, June 11 – Kiev's authorities plan to build around 60 underground parking areas in two years, according to First Deputy Head of Kiev City state administration, Denys Bass.

KIEV, June 10 – Gazprom could raise prices for natural gas for Ukraine from 2009 to European levels if new principles of price formation that factor in Central Asian gas prices are used, an analyst said.

KIEV, June 10 - Arcelor Mittal Kryviy Rih, Ukraine's biggest steel producer, announced it is experiencing disruptions in supplies of metallurgical limestone that have brought the company to the verge of suspending operations.

KIEV, June 10 – Ukraine's foreign trade deficit may expand to more than $20 billion in 2008 following the 4% appreciation of the hryvnia against the U.S. dollar in May, Valeriy Heyets, director of the Economic Forecast Institute, said.

KIEV, June 11 – Ukraine's finance ministry has a good chance of placing Eurobonds by the end of the summer, according to former finance minister and managing director of Morgan Stanley International Bank in Ukraine, Ihor Mitiukov.

KIEV, June 8 - The share of foreign capital in the combined charter capital of Ukrainian banks could reach 40%-45% by the end of 2007, said Oleksandr Kireyev, executive director and head of banking regulations, oversight and financial monitoring at the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, June 8 ??“ The Ukrainian government should not take foreign loans at present, according to executive director and the head of the direction for banking regulation, surveillance and financial monitoring at the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Oleksandr Kireyev.