KIEV, Sept. 25 – The number of billionaires in Ukraine increased by nine people within the year, and now 24 Ukrainians are dollar billionaires According to the Polish magazine Wprost.

KIEV, Sept. 25 - The oil and fat companies of the Ukroliyaprom association will create a vegetable oil price stabilization reserve, increase oil production and expand the outlet chain, including oil sale outlets to the public at producer prices in order to stabilize the price situation on the domestic market.

KIEV, Sept. 25 - Ukraine's Coal Industry Ministry reduced the national coal production forecast for 2007 again, and now expects that output will not exceed last year's 80 million tons.

KIEV, Sept. 26 - Ukraine's State Property Fund is seeking to annul the 2001 sale of stakes in Marhanets Mining and Ordzhonikidze Mining by the state company Ukrainian Polymetals.

KIEV, Sept. 26 - Ukraine’s security service, SBU, on Wednesday urged the country’s regulators to immediately check pipelines and other equipment used by nuclear power plants after seizing a shipment of apparently counterfeited equipment.

KIEV, Sept. 26 - Arcelor Mittal Kryviy Rih, Ukraine’s No. 1 steel mill, and Illich Steel, the No. 2 mill, have formed a consortium to bid for development of a major iron ore deposit, the companies reported Wednesday.

KIEV, Sept. 26 - Ukraine expects prices of natural gas imports next year will not grow more than $15 per 1,000 cubic meters, Economy Minister Anatoliy Kinakh said Wednesday, citing the draft 2008 budget.

MOSCOW, Sept 25 - Fitch Ratings has affirmed Bank Khreschatyk's ratings at foreign and local currency issuer default 'B', short-term 'B', individual 'D/E' and support '4'. The outlooks on the issuer default ratings remain stable.

KIEV, Sept. 25 ??“ Ukrainian mobile operators serviced 83% of the Ukrainian population as of late August, 4.6 percentage points more than a month earlier.

KIEV, Sept. 26 - The World Bank and the State Export-Import Bank of Ukraine (Ukreximbank) signed a guaranteed loan agreement in Kiev on Tuesday on a second export development project, in which Ukreximbank will receive a $154.4 million loan.