KYIV, Feb 27 - Industrial production in Ukraine in January decreased by 3.3% compared with January 2018, whereas in January last year its growth by 4.3% was recorded, the State Statistics Service has reported.

KYIV, Feb 27 - Capital investments in Ukraine in 2017 grew by 22.1% against 18% in 2016, the State Statistics Service has reported.

According to the service, over the past year UAH 412.8 billion of capital investments (excluding the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, Sevastopol and part of the ATO zone) were used.

KYIV, Feb 27 - BNP Paribas S.A. (France) has increased its stake in UkrSibbank (Kyiv) to 60% from 59.99%, the Ukrainian bank reported in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission.

KYIV, Feb 26 – Poland's Mirbud S.A., a construction company, has officially registered Mirbud LLC with the head office in Kyiv and plans to step up engineering and road construction in Ukraine.

KYIV, Feb 26 - The nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of Ukraine, denominated in U.S. dollars, will increase to $122 billion in 2018 from $110 billion in 2017, the chief economist of Dragon Capital investment company, Olena Belan, predicts.

KYIV, Feb 27 - Epicenter K, which develops a network of construction hypermarkets in Ukraine, plans on March 3 to open a new Epicenter shopping center at 11a Bandery Street in Kyiv.

KYIV, Feb 27 - The average price of electricity sales by its producers to the wholesale market in the middle of February 2018 increased by 0.5% (by UAH 5.23 per MWh) compared to the first ten days of the month, to UAH 1,059/MWh, according to data from state enterprise Energorynok.

KIEV, Feb. 24 - The State Property Fund reported it has received proposals for the resumption of work of Odessa Port-Side Chemical Plant from potential partners.

KIEV, Feb. 24 - The government's resolution to recapitalize nationalized PrivatBank for the amount of UAH 9.8 billion by the issue of 15-year government domestic loan bonds with the indexed value (with reference to the U.S. dollar exchange rate), adopted on February 22, was executed on February 24, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 27 – Fish-producing companies will be able to access financing from a EUR 400 million loan of the European Investment Bank in May 2017.

"Last year Ukraine managed to receive a loan from the EIB. We have managed to receive international assistance for development of fish industry for the first time.