KIEV, Sept. 25 - Moody's Investors Service has confirmed the foreign currency Insurance Financial Strength Rating (IFSR) of Kiev-based Generali Garant insurance company at Ba3 with a positive outlook, the insurer's press service told Interfax-Ukraine on Monday.

KIEV, Sept. 25 – Most of the commitments agreed to by Mittal Steel when it purchased a 93.02% stake in Kryvorizhstal (now Arcelor Mittal Kryviy Rih) have been met, according to a State Property Fund report cited by the company.

KIEV, Sept. 25 – Metinvest, Ukraine’s largest steel and mining group, announced Tuesday it will be merging its assets with smaller Smart-group to create a $25 billion giant that would dominate the country’s steel sector.

KIEV, Sept. 22 ??“ The arrival of foreign capital in the bank system of Ukraine will stimulate the consolidation of small banks, according to Volodymyr Mischenko, director of the National Bank of Ukraine??™s research center.

KIEV, Sept. 22 ??“ An increase in the price of imported natural gas from the current $95 to $135 per 1,000 cubic meters in 2007 could lead to stoppages at most of Ukraine's chemical plants, experts say.

KIEV, Sept. 25 ??“ Lithuania's International Export Investment Limited has asked Ukraine's Union of Manufacturers and Entrepreneurs to support a project to build a steel reinforcement plant in the free economic zone in Klaipeda (Lithuania) and asked Ukrainian steel mills to take part, the union's press service told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 23 - Winner Imports Ukraine, the official importer of Volvo to Ukraine, plans to double auto sales in 2006 to more than 500 cars.

KIEV, Sept. 23 - UkrAuto Corporation began assembling Chinese low-tonnage Dong Feng trucks at the Zaporizhia Car Works plant in Illichevsk (Odessa region) in September.

KYIV, Aug 22 – Smart Energy group of companies launched wells at Vasyschevske field (Kharkiv region), according to a press release on Thursday.

KYIV, Aug 22 – The majority of Ukrainians surveyed - 76% - believe that Russians do not perceive Ukraine as an independent sovereign state, most of them in the central and western macro–regions - 80.5% and 78%, respectively.