KYIV, Sept 7 – The cost of housing in Ukraine in the primary market may grow by 5-10%, and in the secondary market – by 7% by the end of 2021, President of the Association of Real Estate Specialists (Realtors) of Ukraine Yuriy Pita has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Sept 7 – The competition for the selection of four members of the supervisory board of Naftogaz Ukrainy will be announced within a week, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has said.

KYIV, Sept 7 – The Financial Stability Council at a meeting on September 2 approved a mechanism for restructuring the debts of the Deposit Guarantee Fund, which will allow in the future increasing the amount of state-guaranteed deposits from UAH 200,000 to UAH 600,000, according to a Monday posting on the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).

KYIV, Sept 7 – Ukraine's FX reserves in August 2020 tentatively expanded by 1%, to $29.049 billion, according to a Monday posting on the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).

KYIV, Sept 8 - Prices for watermelons in Ukraine continue to decline despite the end of the melon season, over the last week the prices have fallen by an average of 20% and today the price range is UAH 1.2-3/kg.

KYIV, Sept 8 - Skyrizon, a subsidiary of Beijing Xinwei Technology Group, and DCH Group of Ukrainian businessman Oleksandr Yaroslavsky will soon submit an updated joint application to the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) for the purchase of Motor Sich, Xinwei said in a statement on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

KYIV, Sept 8 - Black Iron, a Canadian mining company, which is implementing a project to create a new iron ore plant in Kryvy Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region), plans to introduce a two-stage selection of potential investors to achieve the most effective result.

KYIV, Sept 8 - Metinvest B.V., the parent company of the country’s largest producer of steel Metinvest, reported a net loss of $240 million in January-July, reversing $408 million profit in the same period a year ago.

KYIV, Sept 8 – The state-owned PrivatBank topped the list of most profitable banks in Ukraine, reporting UAH 16.2 billion profit in January-July, while the state-owned Ukreximbank reported UAH 2.24 billion loss in the period, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) reported.

KIEV, Sept. 6 - Ukraine imported 4.527 million tons of fuel (gasoline, diesel fuel, boiler oil, jet engine fuel, and others, which have FEACN code 2710) to the tune of $1.902 billion January through August 2016.