KIEV, March 30 – The creation of a full closed cycle for the production of energy-saving light bulbs and solar power plants on the basis of Lviv-based Karat scientific center as a part of an investment project under realization will require state support in the form of a UAH 150 million beneficial three-year credit, specialists say.

KIEV, March 30 – The hryvnia crisis has ended, according to analysts from Renaissance Capital Investment Group.

"We forecast a minimum appreciation of the Ukrainian currency - to UAH 7.50 per dollar – by late 2010. Nothing threatens the hryvnia, at least this year, irrespective of whether the program of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund goes on," reads a survey drawn up by the analysts.

KIEV, March 31 – Inflation expectations of Ukrainians in February fell under the influence of the hryvnia exchange rate reinforcement, according to a survey conducted as a part of a joint project of GfK Ukraine Company and the International Center of Policy Studies (ICPS).

CRIMEA, March 30 - Donetsk-based Altcom financial and industrial group on March 28 started building the Altcem cement plant in Pryozerne in Crimea with a production capacity of three million tons of clinker per year.

NEW YORK, March 28 - Moody's Investors Service has placed Ukraine's key sovereign ratings on review for possible upgrade, including the foreign-currency ceilings for bonds and bank deposits, which are Ba3 and B2, respectively, and the B1 foreign- and local-currency government bond ratings.

KIEV, March 31 – Ukrainian Automobile Corporation (UkrAvto) President Tariel Vasadze has asked the premiers of Ukraine and Poland to promote the creation of a transnational financial industrial group in the auto industry.

KIEV, March 31 – The Antimonopoly Committee has permitted Simferopol-based Chornomornaftogaz state company and Britain's CBM Oil to jointly explore and develop the Holistynske gas condensate field on the Black Sea shelf without creating legal entities on the basis of an agreement on joint activities.

KIEV, March 31 – The increase in consumer crediting through further expansion of foreign liabilities boosts vulnerability of Ukraine's economy, according to the president of the Association of Ukrainian Banks (AUB), Oleksandr Suhonyako.

KIEV, March 31 – The Antimonopoly Committee has permitted Italy's Intesa Sanpaolo to sign an agreement with the owners of Kiev-based Pravex Bank if two-year restrictions are imposed on the activities of companies linked with the owners of the Ukrainian credit and financial institutions.

KIEV, March 31 - Westinghouse Electric Co. of the U.S. and EnergoAtom, Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear power generator, signed a five-year contract for supply of nuclear fuel to three Ukrainian nuclear reactors, the companies reported.