KIEV, Nov. 7 - Ukrainian inflation slowed for a fourth month in October after high grain and vegetable crops helped ease food prices.

The inflation rate fell to 5.4% from 5.9% in September, the State Statistics Committee said today. The median estimate of 10 economists in a Bloomberg survey was 6.4%. Prices were unchanged from the previous month, when they rose 0.1%.

KIEV, Nov. 5 – Ukraine has improved its position in the Doing Business 2011 rating, moving up to 145th position in the ranking of 183 countries, reads a posting on the World Bank's Web site, referring to its Doing Business 2011 report.

KIEV, Nov. 5 – The Ukrainian government has revised the criteria for determining which state-run objects are of strategic importance to the Ukrainian economy and security, actually excluding heat generating companies and regional electricity supply companies from the list, which will ease the way to their privatization.

KIEV, Nov. 5 - Ukraine plans to increase output and exports of power next year amid anticipation that global economic recovery will boost demand for energy, according to a forecast by the Energy and Fuel Ministry.

KIEV, Nov. 4 – The State Road Service of Ukraine, also known as Ukravtodor, is in talks with the Japanese-based Nomura financial group on the possibility of borrowing $440 million against state guarantees, Dragon Capital investment company told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 4 – National JSC Naftogaz Ukrayiny is drawing up a project to create a national filling station chain, the holding's board chairman, Yevhen Bakulin, told journalists in Kiev.

KIEV, Nov. 4 – The World Bank does not see any grounds to inject additional state assets into troubled banks in Ukraine, Marius Vismantas, World Bank Country Sector Coordinator, Financial and Private Sector Development for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, said during a round table on Thursday.

KIEV, Nov. 5 - Natural gas transit supplies to Europe and the CIS countries via Ukraine grew by 6.1%, or 4.559 billion cubic meters, January-October 2010 from the same period of 2009 to 79.098 billion cubic meters.

KIEV, Nov. 6 – Ukraine should not sell Kryvy Rih oxidized ore mining plant (KROOMP) to foreign investors, but should create a pool of Ukrainian companies to complete the construction of the facility, an industry executive said.

KIEV, Nov. 6 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services may review Ukrainian banks' ratings upwards, Ekaterina Trofimova, the deputy director of the Financial Institute Group at S&P's Paris office, said.