ZAPORIZHIA, March 25 – The stoppage of Zaporizhia Aluminum Combine (ZAlK), the country's only aluminum smelter, would cause serious financial losses for the Ukrainian economy, according to Oleksandr Starukh, the head of Zaporizhia regional state administration.

KREMENCHUK, March 24 – UkrTatNafta (Kremenchuk Oil refinery) is not capable of meeting the new standards in fuel production, according to its acting chief production engineer, Valeriy Berdiayev.

KIEV, March 24 – The U.S. dollar exchange rate will continue to fall against the Ukrainian national currency, the hryvnia, if the National Bank of Ukraine doesn't begin to buy excess supply of the dollar on the interbank market, according to bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine on Monday.

KIEV, March 24 – The Economy Ministry has announced the start of the registration of applications for sunflower oil export licenses.

KIEV, March 25 – The Antimonopoly Committee has permitted Ucomline Holding Limited, which belongs to System Capital Management, to buy a controlling stake in Odessa-based Digital Communication Systems, Donetsk-based System Capital Management reported.

LONDON, March 23 - The Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange, or MICEX, one of the largest currency and stock exchanges in Russia, has been considering options for entering the Ukrainian stock market, a news agency reported.

KIEV, March 23 ??“ The Black Sea Shipyard Holding in Mykolaiv submitted an appeal to the Kiev Economic Court against the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) to recognize as illegal the negative results of checks on the fulfillment of its sale and purchase agreement.

KIEV, March 23 ??“ Britain's Global Steel Investments Limited increased its share in the structure of owners of Zaporizhstal, the Zaporizhia-based steel mill, by 7.23%, to 40.91%, according to a Zaporizhstal report.

KIEV, March 23 ??“ Metinvest Group, a steel and mining group owned by wealthiest Ukrainian Rinat Akhmetov, plans to invest UAH 468 million in the development of Krasnodonvuhillia coal mine in 2007.

KIEV, March 23 ??“ The new leaders of Oschadbank, the state-owned savings bank, said that the decisions of the supervisory council of March 16 and March 19 that had reshuffled top managers are legal.