KYIV, Jan 21 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) will probably expand 4.2%on the year in 2021 after contracted an estimated 4.4% in 2020, the National Bank of Ukraine said in a report.

KYIV, Jan 21 – Ukraine’s inflation will probably grow faster-than-expected this year and will hit 7% in 2021, up from previously expected 6.5%, but will decline to about 5% in 2022, the National Bank of Ukraine reported Thursday.

KYIV, Jan 22 – Ukraine mulls creating the National Investment Fund, which will hold shares of large state-owned companies to prepare them for IPO, Olha Mahaletska, the head of the Office of the National Investment Council, said.

KYIV, Jan 22 – Nova Poshta group of companies plans to invest $100 million in infrastructure development in 2020, co-owner of the company Volodymyr Popereshniuk wrote on his Facebook page.

KYIV, Jan 23 – Ukraine plans to discuss the update of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement (AA) in 2020 in three key areas, Deputy Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture Minister, Ukraine's Trade Representative Taras Kachka said.

KYIV, Jan 22 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has announced a five-year tax break for investors who will purchase privatization facilities for $10 million or more.

KYIV, Jan 23 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Union (EU) have agreed a new EUR 50 million program of financial guarantees aimed at scaling up investment in renewable energy in Ukraine and in the EU's Southern Neighborhood with a particular focus on Jordan, Lebanon and Tunisia, the bank has said in a press release.

KYIV, Jan 23 – Ukraine has placed EUR 1.25 billion eurobonds at 4.375% per annum, the Finance Ministry of Ukraine reported late on Wednesday.

DAVOS, Jan 23 – Ukrainian authorities want to pass state-ownws railway company Ukrzaliznytsia into management by Deutsche Bahn AG (DB), Germany's operator of railways, for 10 years, Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk said.

KYIV, Jan 23 – The TAS Group, the founder and majority shareholder of which is Serhiy Tigipko, plans to expand the TAS pharmacy chain to 400-500 pharmacies by 2021, TAS Pharma LLC reported.