KIEV, Sept. 5 – The creation of the national joint-stock company Titan Ukrayiny, in which the state would control a 50% +1 stake, would allow controlling up to 25% of the world's titan-magnesium ore deposits, acting Sumykhimprom Chairman Yevhen Lapin, said in an interview with the Ekonomicheskiye Izvestiya newspaper.

KIEV, Sept. 5 – The current exchange-rate regime, combined with more attractive interest rates on foreign currency loans, constitutes a particularly powerful incentive to borrow in dollars, according to experts of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development.

KIEV, Sept. 4 ??“ Steel pipe output in Ukraine has risen 10.6% through Aug. 31 versus the same period last year to 1.7 million tons, including 240,400 tons in August, Dnipropetrovsk-based Ukrtruboprom association of pipe manufacturers told Interfax.

KIEV, Sept. 5 ??“ The Economy Ministry has proposed the introduction of export licenses for wheat and wheat and rye mixture, apart from wheat for sowing.

KIEV, Sept. 5 ??“ KievEnergo, Ukraine??™s largest utility, has fully paid off debts for gas supplied by Gaz Ukrayiny, Gaz Ukrayiny First Deputy Director General Ivan Varha said at a press conference in Kiev on Monday.

KIEV, Sept. 5 - Finnish adhesives and surfacing resins producer Dynea is considering investment in a production plant in Ukraine, the company's general director in the country said on Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 5 ??“ Russia on Tuesday agreed to increase 53% price of natural gas it buys from Turkmenistan, a move that will most likely soon lead to a major gas price hike for Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 5 - Real profits at Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant are probably much greater than have been previously reported as the company had massively used a scheme to minimize tax payments, a government official said Monday.

KIEV, Sept. 5 ??“ A new set of rules promulgated by the National Bank of Ukraine recognizes the widespread use of direct foreign currency investment.

KIEV, Sept. 5 ??“ The international hotel chain Radisson SAS Hotels & Resorts Investment has invested ?49 mln into the creation of the Radisson SAS Kyiv hotel, Peter Anker-Moeller, the hotel's director general, told journalists, according to Interfax Ukriane.