KREMENCHUK, Sept. 4 – A meeting of the shareholders of Ukrtatnafta (Kremenchuk, Poltava region), scheduled for Sept. 4, failed due to the lack of a quorum, Ihor Leschenko, the head of the corporate shareholders' rights of Ukrtatnafta, told journalists.

KIEV, September 4 – The Ukrainian Cabinet has transferred the water area to the Yuzhny port in Odessa region on the condition that the company does not give it in the use to other legal entities.

KIEV, Sept. 4 – UkrNafta, Ukraine's large oil extraction company, said that the Environment Protection Ministry is preparing a transfer of a license of the national Nadra Ukrayiny on development of the Sakhalinske oil and gas condensate field in Krasnokutsky District in Kharkiv region to a non-governmental commercial company.

KIEV, Sept. 4 – The growth of interest rates on international markets caused by the mortgage crisis in the United States, would only slightly impact the Ukrainian financial sector and secondary loan markets should remain unaffected, according to Anatoliy Shapovalov, first deputy head of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 1 ??“ The government has allowed the Agrarian Fund to buy 400,000 tons of grain from the new harvest at prices set on the exchange in order to form a state food reserve.

KIEV, Sept. 4 - Kiev-based Raiffeisenbank Ukraine (RBU) will be renamed OTP Bank (Ukraine) after a transaction is completed to sell the bank to Hungary's OTP Bank, Dmitry Zinkov, CEO of RBU, told Interfax.

KIEV, Sept. 4 ??“ Nucor Corporation, a leading steel company in the United States, is planning to sign a contract with Makiyivka steel mill in Donetsk region for the purchase of pig iron for its enterprises.

KIEV, Sept. 4 ??“ Ukraine should before the end of September resume talks with Turkmenistan and Russia over supplies of natural gas to avoid gas shortages this year and to increase energy security, the government said Monday.

KIEV, Sept. 3 - Ukrainian mogul Ihor Kolomoyskiy increased to $160 million from $100 million offer to buy 40% stake in Studio 1+1 television after U.S.-based majority shareholder had sought to derail the deal.

TBILISI, Sept. 3 - The East Capital Baring Ukraine Fund has bought 5.5% stake in the Bank of Georgia (Saqartvelos Banki) for 4.6 million lari ($2.6 million), the Georgian bank told.