KIEV, Nov. 28 – Ukraine’s State Commission for Financial Market Regulation of has forecast that the capitalization of non-banking financial organizations will fall and their financial state will worsen, Commission Chairman Valery Alyoshyn Financial Market Regulation said in Kiev on Thursday.

KIEV, Nov. 28 – The shadow economy is a key negative factor hindering the development of the regions and cutting the level of Ukraine’s competitiveness, Natalia Izosimova, irector of the Efficient Management Fund, said while presenting the preliminary conclusions of a comprehensive study of the economy in Donetsk region and Lviv City.

WARSAW, Nov. 29 - Poland's third largest meat firm in terms of net profit, Duda, will boost its position on the Ukrainian market through acquisitions, the company's CEO Maciej Duda said Wednesday.

KIEV, Nov. 29 - OTP Bank, Hungary's largest bank, said Wednesday it plans to increase by five times within the next two years the number of branches in its recently acquired Ukrainian subsidiary.

KIEV, Nov. 30 ??“ Ukraine's largest glass plant is to be built near Svema, a troubled producer of films, according to a press release by Ukrainian Glass Line Ltd., the main investor in the project.

KIEV, Nov. 30 ??“ Ukraine??™s anti-monopoly authority warned UkrGaz-Energo, the country??™s only importer of natural gas, that it may send police troops to the company??™s headquarters to seize documents shedding light on the size of its real operation.

KIEV, Nov. 30 ??“ Intel Corporation and the Institute of Telecommunication Systems of the National Technical University of Ukraine at Kiev Polytechnic Institute have signed a memorandum on cooperation aimed at opening a Wireless Development Center in Kiev based on university facilities.

KIEV, Nov. 30 ??“ Ukraine??™s largest still mill, Kryvorizhstal, will not increase wholesale prices for its products over the next two months, director for foreign economic affairs, marketing and distribution Valeriy Stasiuk is quoted as saying by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 29 ??“ The State Property Fund has toughened the terms of a tender for a 92.41% stake in Azov Oils and Lubricants, also known as Azmol, restricting the competition to bidders that have already obtained revenues and profit in Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 29 ??“ Ukraine and the United States will continue cooperation in space exploration under an international cooperation plan being drawn up by NASA, the Ukrainian National Space Agency told Interfax-Ukraine.