KIEV, May 24 ??“ AutoKrAZ, Ukraine's only truck producer, in autumn 2006 plans to enter international capital markets via selling Eurobonds or attracting direct syndicated credits, the company's financial director, Yaroslav Bondarenko, said.

KIEV, May 25 ??“ The creation of a free trade zone between the GUAM countries, including Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova, may damage Ukrainian agriculture, Vice-President of the Research Center for Corporate Relations Rostyslav Ischenko said.

KIEV, May 24 - Ukraine's exports of arms and military services rose 5% on the year to about $680 million in 2005, Valentyn Badrak, director of the Ukrainian Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies, said.

KIEV, May 25 ??“ The independent rating agency Credit-Rating (Kiev) has put up for review the long-term credit rating uaAA earlier assigned to the state-owned Naftogaz Ukrayiny, having changed the rating forecast for "developing," the agency reported Tuesday, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, April 24 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) will reduce the key policy rate at a meeting on Thursday from 14.5% to 14%, predicts the majority of bankers surveyed by the Interfax-Ukraine agency, although bolder estimates are also heard - up to 13.5% and even 13% per annum.

KYIV, April 24 – Japan intends to increase its presence in the investment market of Ukraine. In particular, to expand business ties in the investment and trade spheres, Japanese partners will open an office of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) in Kyiv, as reported by Ukraine's Ministry of Economy following a meeting on April 23 between Deputy Minister, Trade Representative Taras Kachka and the Economic Mission of the Government of Japan.

KYIV, April 25 – On April 25, the dispatch center of NPC Ukrenergo was forced to attract emergency assistance for most of the day from the power systems of European countries for the fourth day in a row.

KYIV, April 25 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has improved its inflation forecast for 2024 from 8.6% to 8.2% and worsened it for 2025 from 5.8% to 6%.

KYIV, April 25 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has downgraded its forecast for the growth of the country's gross domestic product in 2024 to 3% from 3.6% in the January forecast, which is associated with restrained budget expenditures in conditions of uncertainty regarding the receipt of external financing in the first quarter and the blockade of the western border, as well as enemy attacks on energy infrastructure.

KYIV, April 25 – The Board of the National Bank has decided to reduce the discount rate from 14.5% to 13.5% annually starting from April 26, 2024, announced the governor of the NBU, Andriy Pyshnyy, at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday. This decision comes as most bankers surveyed by the agency expected it to be lowered to 14%.