KYIV, Aug 4 – Half of members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) at a meeting held on July 22 offered to keep the key policy rate unchanged until the end of 2020 (at 6%), three MPC members advocated a cut in the key policy rate and two MPC members – a rise in the rate, the central bank said in a Monday report on its website.

KYIV, Aug 5 – Metinvest, the largest Ukrainian mining and metallurgical holding, in January-June this year increased steel production by 1% compared to the same period last year, to 3.963 million tons, pig iron – also by 1%, to 4.066 million tons, but reduced total coke production by 4%, to 2.373 million tons.

KYIV, Aug 5 – The share of vacant space in Kyiv malls in January-June increased by 7.6 p.p. compared to the same index in 2019 and amounted to 12%, while post-quarantine June demonstrated growth of retail turnover in Ukraine by 1.4%.

KYIV, Aug 5 – The volume of merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions in Ukraine in January-June 2020 decreased by 78% on the year to $159 million, which is the lowest result since 2015, the research reports, the results of which are posted on KPMG's website.

KYIV, Aug 5 – Acting General Director of Centerenergo Oleksandr Korchynsky supports the idea of transferring promising state-owned coalmines to the company with the subsequent organization of work to reduce the cost of coal mined by them.

KYIV, Aug 5 – Acting Minister of Energy Olha Buslavets has discussed potential projects on the construction of data centers and a hydrogen plant in Ukraine with Andriy Zhovner, the CEO of H2 LLC, and Walter Komarek, the CEO of Yom Capital Ltd, operating in the field of alternative energy.

KYIV, Aug 6 – Beijing Skyrizon and DCH Group of Ukrainian businessman Oleksandr Yaroslavsky and its affiliated companies jointly submitted a new application to the Antimonopoly Committee on August 4 to buy Motor Sich shares, Beijing Xinwei Technology Group Co., Ltd said in a statement on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Thursday night.

WASHINGTON, Aug 6 - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday accused wealthy Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoisky of stealing billions of dollars from a bank he once owned, then using a vast array of companies to launder that money in the United States and all over the world, The Washington Post reported.

KYIV, Aug 2 – Production of natural gas in Ukraine in January-July 2019 increased, according to recent data, by 1.8% (by 216.3 million cubic meters) compared to the same period in 2018, to 12.188 billion cubic meters, according to data from JSC Ukrtransgaz.

KYIV, Aug 2 – Some 31 international companies use the service of storing natural gas in Ukrainian underground gas storage facilities (UGS), Andriy Kobolev, the CEO of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, said on Facebook.