KYIV, Oct 22 – The approval of the Stand-By Arrangement of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will contribute to macro-financial stability and will be a positive signal for foreign investors, according to bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Oct 23 – In November 2018, the national JSC Naftogaz Ukrayiny will keep its price for natural gas for industrial customers that purchase it on a prepaid basis at the October level, i.e. UAH 13,439 for every 1,000 cubic meters.

KYIV, Oct 24 – Registrations of electric cars in Ukraine grew by 54% in January-September 2018 year-over-year, to 3,798 vehicles, which is also 533 cars more than in the entire period of 2017, the Employers' Federation of Automotive Industry has reported, referring to an analysis of data from the Interior Ministry.

KYIV, Oct 24 – The total sum of overpayments to Gazprom for gas transit sent to Naftogaz Ukrayiny to offset the penalty accrued on the debt of the Russian company in line with the arbitration award on the transit contract issued on February 28, 2018, has reached $18 million, Chief Commercial Officer of Naftogaz Ukrayiny Yuriy Vitrenko said.

KYIV, Oct 24 – Ukraine has entered the heating season with enough natural gas stocks, and nothing is threatening to the heating season, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said at a government meeting on Wednesday.

KYIV, Oct 23 – Ukrtransnafta on Monday evening recovered all its oil kept in storage facilities of ol refinery Naftokhimik Prykarpattia, First Deputy CEO Andriy Pasishnyk said.

SIMFEROPOL, Oct 23 – The chemical plant manufacturing titanium dioxide, which is a subsidiary of Titanium Investment LLC in the town of Armiansk in the northern part of Crimea, has been given permission to resume operation after it was halted in early September due to a release of harmful emissions into the air from its acid holding basin.

KYIV, Oct 23 – Ukrainians in September were optimistic about the country's economic development over the next year – the respective index grew by 10 points compared with the August figure, to 62.6, and consumer confidence improved by 2.3 points.

KYIV, Oct 23 – The Interagency Commission for International Trade in most cases makes decisions in antidumping investigations in favor of a national manufacturer, Director of the Trade Protection Department of the Economic Development and Trade Ministry Natalia Sydoruk said.

KYIV, Oct. 23 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman and Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Alain Pilloux at a meeting agreed on the start of a new strategy for cooperation in the implementation of large and long-term projects.