PRAGUE, Aug. 30 - Top Czech used-car dealer AAA Auto, which Wednesday officially announced its planned initial public offering on the Prague and Budapest bourses to fund its expansion to Southeastern Europe, is in the advanced stages of agreeing joint ventures in Russia and Ukraine, AAA Auto founder and chairman Anthony Denny said.

KIEV, Aug. 30 – The State Property Fund has announced preparation for a tender to sell a 60.86% stake in Makiyivka Metallurgical Combine, where Makiyivka Metallurgical Plant now works.

KIEV, Aug. 31 – Housing prices in Kiev will grow 30-40% by late 2007, Kiev-based Miskzhytlobud President Denys Kostrzhevsky told Interfax-Ukraine.

"The fall is a traditional time for more activity on the real estate market, and the early elections will influence prices. The more elections that are held, the higher house prices go, as the money pumped into the economy stimulates demand for apartments," he said.

KIEV, Aug. 31 - The government has removed from the charter capital of the Energy Company of Ukraine blocking stakes in six regional power supply companies over which the state had veto power over privatization.

KIEV, Aug. 31 – The energy sector in Ukraine is being run not as a business but as part of the state infrastructure and a source of budget revenue, according to a joint study conducted by over 40 leading analysts of the energy sector in Russia, Ukraine and Europe.

KYIV, Aug 1 - ArcelorMittal Corporation, which includes PJSC ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region), has excluded from the list of urgent projects the construction of a new pellet plant in Kryvy Rih.

KYIV, Aug 1 – The agricultural sector has been identified as one of the priorities within the framework of the implementation of the Ukraine Plan for the implementation of the Ukraine Facility, for which the European Union intends to provide about EUR 50 billion, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food has reported.

KYIV, Aug 1 – In January-July of 2023, Zaporizhstal increased the shipment of rolled products by 14.4% compared to the same period last year, to 1.04 million tons.

According to the information of the enterprise on Tuesday, steel production during this period increased by 24.5%, to 1.26 million tons, hot metal – by 10.6%, to 1.408 million tons.

KYIV, Aug 1 – The business activity expectations index (BAEI), which the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) calculates on a monthly basis, after three months of being in above its neutral level of 50 points (from 50.5 to 51.5 points) in July fell by 2 points to the level of 48.8 on a scale from zero to 100.

KYIV, Aug 2 – In July 2023, Ukraine received 589 million cubic meters (mcm) of natural gas, of which more than 99% was transported for storage in the customs warehouse and as short-haul.