KYIV, Dec 27 – Ukrainian enterprises in January-November 2018 boosted scrap metal consumption by 6.51% year-over-year, to 4.976 million tons.

KYIV, Dec 27 – The Tesla Supercharger chain of Tesla Inc. would spread to the entire Europe in 2019, including Ukraine, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said.

KYIV, Dec 27 - Rothschild Trust (Schweiz) has decided to pay dividends of over UAH 556.7 million (nearly US$20.4 million) to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for the first time in three years; the president is due to pay almost UAH 60 million (nearly US$2.2 million) in taxes, according to the Ukrainian presidential administration's press service.

KYIV, Dec 26 - Martial law, imposed on Nov. 25 in some Ukrainian areas after a naval confrontation in which Russia fired on and seized three Ukrainian vessels, expired on Wednesday, President Petro Poroshenko told the country's security council.

KYIV, Dec 26 - Gas under the contract formula with Gazprom updated by the Stockholm arbitration will be cheaper for Naftogaz Ukrainy than that bought in Europe, however, due to Gazprom's position on gas supplies to uncontrolled territories in Donbas, there are doubts about the resumption by the Russian company of supplies to the Ukrainian company, Naftogaz Head Andriy Kobolev said.

KYIV, Dec 22 - Index of Devaluation Expectations of Ukrainians in the coming three months worsened by 10 points in November, to 166.6 on October 2017, while consumer confidence last month improved by 0.3 points, to 62.3 (on a 200-grade scale).

KYIV, Dec 26 – The National Commission for State Regulation of Communications and Information Technology has officially published an announcement about a tender to sell radio frequency licenses to introduce radio technology "International Mobile Telecommunications IMT" (4G, LTE, or Long Term Evolution) in the radio frequency bands 1710-1785 MHz, 1805-1880 MHz.

KYIV, Dec 26 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has returned to Oleksandr Yaroslavsky documents for agreement on the participation in the purchase of Prominvestbank (PIB, Kyiv) for modification, the NBU has said on its Twitter page.

KYIV, Dec 26 – The Finance Ministry has completed the fourth stage of additional capitalization of Kyiv-based PrivatBank through an additional issue of government domestic loan bonds worth UAH 16 billion in exchange for the bank's shares, the ministry's said on its website.

KYIV, Dec 26 - The Fitch Ratings international rating agency forecasts that Ukrainian banks in 2018 will post profit, at the same time it notes a number of constraints.