KIEV, March 25 – The National Bank of Ukraine and State Tax Administration should intervene when banks provide services at a price lower than cost, according to Dnipropetrovsk-based PrivatBank Chairman Oleksandr Dubilet.

KIEV, March 26 –The excess of foreign currency supply over demand on the Ukrainian interbank market over the past several days was a blip, and the balance on the interbank is being restored, according to Anatoliy Shapovalov, first deputy head of the National Bank of Ukraine.

ZAPORIZHIA, March 27 - The Zaporizhia Aluminum Smelter (ZALK), Ukraine's only producer of primary aluminum, expects to close 2008 with a loss of UAH143 million, General Director Alexander Kotiuk said.

KIEV, March 27 ??“ Milkiland-Ukraine, one of Ukraine's major dairy producers, is to complete talks on purchasing milk processing facilities in Ukraine.

KIEV, March 27 - Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Russia's Alliance Group plan to form a joint venture to run the Russian company's filling station network in Ukraine, an industry source said.

KIEV, March 27 ??“ French banking group Credit Agricole S.A., which has been working for 13 years on the Ukrainian market through Calyon Bank, has agreed to buy 98% of Index-Bank for about $260 million, a news agency reported.

KIEV, March 27 ??“ Seven foreign oil companies, such as ExxonMobil, Shell and Hunt Oil Company, submitted their bids at a tender to for exploration and extraction of oil and gas offshore Black Sea, officials said.

KIEV, March 24 ??“ The AvtoKrAZ Holding Company (Poltava region), Ukraine's only heavy truck producer, is planning to supply 400 KrAZ truck assembly sets to Vietnam in 2005 (almost twice that in 2004), and up to 500 sets in 2006.

KIEV, March 24 ??“ Ukraine's Economics and European Integration Ministry has received from the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade a new version of the draft bilateral agreement on trade in some kinds of ferrous metal pipes between Ukraine and Russia for 2005-2007.

ALMATY, March 24 ??“ KazMunayGas, Kazakhstan's national oil and gas company, says it may use the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to export its oil.