KYIV, Jan 31 - S&P has changed its outlook on the ratings of the Ukrainian metals and mining company Metinvest to positive and affirmed its B- ratings, according to the rating agency's press release.

KYIV, Feb 1 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) plans to buy $15 million a day to boost international reserves in the first and second quarters of 2019, the central bank has reported on its website.

MOSCOW, Feb. 1 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny plans to shortly send a delegation to Moscow in order to discuss new prices on gas transit via Ukraine with the deputy chair of Gazprom Alexander Medvedev, a source familiar with the situation has told Interfax.

KIEV, Feb. 1 – The State Property Fund has announced a tender to select an appraiser for 94.6% and 99.6% of Odessa Port-Side Plant (the two options are in line with current law and the proposed bill).

KIEV, Feb. 1 - ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) sold 500,000 tons of steel products on the Ukrainian market in 2015, down from the previous 1.5 million tons.

KIEV, Feb. 2 - The National Commission for Communications Regulation (NCCR) plans to implement the second phase of reducing interconnection rates starting July 1.

KIEV, January 30 – The State Statistics Service will publish the assessment of the dynamics of Ukraine's gross domestic product (GDP) for the fourth quarter of 2014 and the whole year of 2014 on February 16, while originally it was planned to publish estimates in late January.

Moscow, Feb. 2 - Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) is set to replace Zenit launch vehicles built by the Dnipropetrovsk-based Pivdenmash plant in Ukraine with brand new Angara rockets, Izvestia wrote on Monday.

KIEV, Feb. 2 - The National Bank of Ukraine will scrap the practice of using the national currency's indicative exchange rate starting February 5 and switch to a single exchange rate on the interbank currency market, a source on the financial market said.

KIEV, Feb. 2 – Ukraine should pay SDR 1.01 billion, or slightly over $1.42 billion at the current forex rate, to the International Monetary Fund in 2015, and the schedule of corresponding payments is available on the IMF's official website.