KIEV, Nov. 1 – Fitch Ratings has projected that the Ukrainian economy's growth will be zero in 2013 but accelerate to 2.2% in 2014, Charles Seville, Director in Fitch's Sovereign team, said at a conference organized by Fitch Ratings in Kiev.

LONDON, Nov. 1 – Standard & Poor's has downgraded its long-term sovereign credit ratings on Ukraine from B to B-.

The outlook remains negative.

KIEV, Nov. 1 –The introduction by the Ukrainian authorities of the obligatory sale of part of a company's currency income and budget payments using promissory notes are steps in the wrong direction, according to Qimiao Fan, World Bank Country Director for Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – The signing of the association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union will be positive for Ukraine's trade over the long term, but there could be short- to medium-term negative impact largely related to Russia's reaction, Standard & Poor's Rating Services said.

KIEV, Nov. 3 – The Ukrainian government is planning to create an export-credit agency to support national exports.

The initiative is stipulated in draft law No. 9373 on the state financial support of exports, which was registered in Parliament on November 1.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – There are no quotas on car imports from Europe to Ukraine in the EU trade deal, and the announced number of 45,000 cars per year is only an indicator on which protective measures to regulate the share of European cars on the Ukrainian market will be based, the Ukrainian government's commissioner for European integration, Valeriy Piatnytsky, said in an interview with the Mirror Weekly Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 2 – The structure of foreign partners of Mykolaiv-based Zorya-Mashproekt, a famous designer and producer of gas turbine equipment, could be expanded to include Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.(Petrobras), the company's top managers said.

KIEV, Nov. 2 – Ukraine will obtain $315,000 under the World Bank's Partnership for Market Readiness (PMR) for the first phase of the introduction of a carbon market, the Environmental (Green) Investments Fund LLC reported.

KIEV, Nov. 3 – The trade union of ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) is insisting the company's administration urgently sign a sector agreement for 2011-2012.

An address of the trade union committee published in the trade union's newspaper expresses anxiety at the situation at the enterprise, which is said was cause for rather justifiable alarm and which creates grounds for unrest in the workforce.

KIEV, Nov. 1 – Poor performance by the State Commission for Regulating the Financial Services Markets (Derzhfinposluh) may prompt some foreign investors to file claims against the state.