KIEV, Feb. 10 – The parts of the Black Sea shelf that were awarded to Romania under a ruling of the United Nations International Court of Justice hold almost no promising fields, specialists from Chornomornaftogaz have told the Dzerkalo Tyzhnya weekly newspaper.

KIEV, Feb. 8 – A meeting of holders of Naftogaz Ukrayiny eurobonds to discuss the prolongation of terms for the publication of the holding's audited financial report for 2006 has been postponed until Feb. 21.

KIEV, Feb. 8 - Ukraine's industrial producers raised the prices for their products in January by 2.3% compared to 3.2% in December 2007, the State Statistics Committee reported.

MOSCOW, Feb. 8 - Ukraine increased exports of rolled steel products to Russia by 18% to 2.6 million tons in 2007, while imports from Russia jumped 38% to 1.3 million tons, tentative figures show.

LONDON, Feb. 9 - Fitch Ratings has affirmed Sweden-based Swedbank's ratings at Issuer Default 'A+' with Stable Outlook, Short-term 'F1', Individual 'B' and Support '1', the ratings agency said in a press release.

KIEV, Feb. 9 ??“ Nadra Bank is considering issuing Eurobonds worth at least $150 million in 2007 and to secure assets through placing securities worth no less than $100 million, Nadra Bank President Ihor Hylenko said.

KIEV, Feb. 9 - Shareholders in Ukraine's Ukrsotsbank at a meeting on Thursday approved a development plan for 2007, bank spokesman Serhiy Shevchenko told Interfax.

KIEV, Feb. 8 ??“ Ukrainian insurance companies collected about UAH 13 billion in premiums in 2006, up from UAH 12.8 billion in 2005 and UAH 19.4 billion in 2004, according to the League of Ukrainian Insurance Companies.

KIEV, Feb. 9 ??“ Real estate prices in 2007 on the primary market in Kiev could grow by 20-25%, and on the secondary market they could grow by 10-15%, according to NRB Bank President Viacheslav Yutkin.

KYIV, Jan 9 – The power system of Ukraine has demonstrated a certain reserve capacity to cope with low temperatures and operates stably, however, saving electricity now in order to avoid outages in the future remains important, head of NPC Ukrenergo Volodymyr Kudrytsky has said.