KIEV, Dec. 21 - Dmytro Firtash's Group DF plans to invest about $2.5 billion in its titanium business over the next seven years, the group said in a statement.
KIEV, Dec. 23 – Moody's Investors Service has confirmed First Ukrainian International Bank's (FUIB) long-term local currency deposit and foreign currency senior unsecured debt ratings of B2, as well as its National Scale Rating (NSR) of A3.ua.
KIEV, Dec. 23 – The planned state financing of a program on the creation and completion of tests of the An-70 military cargo plane in 2010 is estimated at around UAH 190 million, the Defense Ministry reported.
KIEV, Dec. 24 - The share of bad credits in the total amount of loans extended by Ukrainian banks in November 2009 grew by 0.7 percentage points, to 8.8% by December 1, 2009, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.
KIEV, Dec. 24 - Head of the National Bank of Ukraine's advisory group Valeriy Lytvytsky's view is that the balance of payments deficit will end up at a little over $14 billion for 2009, up from $3.209 billion for 2008.
KIEV, Dec. 23 - Ukraine's debt for gas will equal $3.2 billion on Jan. 1, 2009, Dmytro Firtash, co-owner of Switzerland-registered gas trader RosUkrEnergo, said in an interview with Ukraine's Inter television.
KIEV, Dec. 21 -- The average level of transparency among Ukraine's largest corporations is low, at 23.9%, Standard & Poor's Governance Services says in its Transparency and Disclosure Survey of the 36 largest Ukrainian companies.
KIEV, Dec. 21 - The first launch of a Tsyklon-4 rocket from the Alcantara space center in Brazil has been scheduled for July 2010, Alcantara-Tsyklon-Space joint-venture director general Oleksandr Serdiuk told Interfax-Ukraine.
KIEV, Dec. 21 - Germany's NUKEM Technologies GmbH has completed the construction of a storage facility for solid radioactive waste from the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant located on the territory of the Vector complex, the state-run Chornobyl NPP Company said on Friday.
KIEV, Dec. 24 – Ukraine’s ability to pay for imported natural gas on time and ensure stable heating services in the country’s regions is being threatened by unsatisfactory payments of heat supply companies for consumed gas, according to Gaz Ukrayiny.
