KIEV, Oct. 31 - The margin between the credit and deposit interest rates in hryvnias in Ukraine in January through September 2007 fell by 1.6%, to 5.6%, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 31 - A Ukrainian gas trader on Wednesday paid in full the remaining $729 million debt owed for Russian gas supplies, meeting the deadline and averting a supply cutoff.

KIEV, Oct. 29 - Todays Writing Products Ltd has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that company subsidiary Today's Petrotech Ltd.(TPTL) has entered into a joint venture with Naftogaz India Pvt Ltd (NG) a wholly owned subsidiary of Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

KIEV, Oct. 30 - Energy Company of Ukraine is planning to import 3.5 million tons of coal from Russia and Poland in 2008, company president Ihor Hluschenko said on Monday at a meeting of Fuel and Energy Ministry officials who were discussing fuel and energy preparations for the coming winter.

KIEV, Oct. 30 - Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko has offered assurances that the financial standing of national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny will improve.

KIEV, Oct. 31 - The board of directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will vote on allocating a EUR200 million loan to Ukraine's state owned National Energy Company Ukrenergo at a meeting slated for Nov. 6, the chairman of the National Electricity Regulatory Commission, Serhiy Titenko, told journalists in Kiev.

KIEV, Oct. 30 ??“ Ihor Voronin, chairman of UkrGaz-Energo and deputy chairman of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, has denied reports that he owns part of the capital of RosUkrEnergo AG.

KIEV, Oct. 30 - Duferco and Ukraine's Industrial Union of Donbas (IUD) have reached agreement to ship up to 1.4 million tons of steel slabs annually to Chicago-based Esmark over a period of six years with a possible extension, the companies said in a joint announcement.

LONDON, Oct. 30 - Fitch Ratings announced it has placed Naftogaz Ukrayiny's local and foreign currency issuer default ratings of 'B+' on rating watch negative.

KIEV, Oct. 30 ??“ Ukrainian farms in January through September attracted almost UAH9 billion in credits, more than double the same period in 2005, Deputy Agriculture Minister Yuriy Luzan said.