KYIV, Sept 7 – Fitch Ratings has affirmed Ukraine's Long-Term Foreign-Currency (LTFC) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'B' with a stable outlook, the rating agency said on its website.

KYIV, Sept 4 - The main challenges for Ukrainian agriculture are weather conditions, logistics, access to financing and the transition to deeper processing, Olena Voloshyna, the head of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) office in Ukraine, said.

KYIV, Sept 4 – Justice Minister Denys Maliuska asked Parliament to urgently adopt a law to prevent the collection of UAH 10 billion from state-owned PrivatBank (Kyiv) in favor of the Surkis brothers' companies.

KYIV, Sept 7 – Ukrzaliznytsia has signed memorandums of cooperation with Visa and MasterCard, within the framework of which it is planned to introduce a number of innovative projects that will improve and modernize the company's services.

KYIV, Sept 7 – The World Bank has provided recommendations to the National Strategy for the Development of Broadband Access to the Internet in Ukraine for 2020-2025.

KYIV, Sept 5 - ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih has announced an open dialogue with all eight trade unions at the enterprise, but expressed its concern about the increasing number of appeals from individuals and political radical forces, interested in cooperation with small trade unions, to conduct protest actions.

KYIV, Sept 5 – The German-Ukrainian Fund (GUF) and Kyiv City Administration have intents to sign an agreement on beneficial lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) located in Kyiv, Deputy GUF Head Valeriy Maiboroda has said.

KYIV, Sept 5 - The total state direct and government-guaranteed debt of Ukraine in July 2017 increased by 1.4% or $1.05 billion, to $76.06 billion, the Ministry of Finance said on its website.

KYIV, Sept. 5 – Ukraine's forex reserves as of early September 2017 totaled $18.03 billion, which is $240 million or 1.3% more than in the previous month, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) published tentative data on Tuesday.

KYIV, Sept 5 - World Bank Country Director for Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine Satu Kahkonen has said the automated indexation of pensions in Ukraine should be introduced from 2018 and not from 2021 as it is outlined in the existing bill on pension reform proposed by the Ukrainian government to the Verkhovna Rada.