KIEV, July 23 - Peak interest in buying Ukrainian insurance companies will come this year and in the first half of 2008, but in two or three years these companies will be of no interest to investors, chairman of Kiev-based Generali Garant Life Insurance, Stanislav Hotsuliak, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 23 - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in its latest July forecast, cut expectations of the wheat harvest in Ukraine in 2007 from 14 million tons to 13 million tons.

KIEV, July 20 - Eurobank Ergasias S.A., Greece's second largest bank, paid almost $50 million for a 99.34% stake in Universal Bank, Universal Investment Group, a major shareholder in the Ukrainian bank, reported Thursday.

KIEV, July 21 ??“ ZaporizhTransformator (ZTR), one of the world's biggest producers of transformers, has won tenders to supply equipment for the second stage of the North-South power transmission line in Kazakhstan.

KIEV, July 21 ??“ Ernst & Young, an international accounting company, has confirmed the authenticity of the financial results of the open Halnaftogaz Concern in 2005.

KIEV, July 21 ??“ Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor ASA believes that Kyivstar, a Ukrainian cell phone operator in which it owns majority stake, is worth $8 billion, Telenor Executive Vice-President Thor Halvorsen said Friday.

KIEV, July 21 ??“ Russian oil major TNK-BP has not received any official notification from UkrTransNafta on revoking an oil shipment agreement through the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline in the direction from Brody to Odessa.

KYIV, June 21 – Prices for industrial products in Ukraine in May 2024 increased by 7.2% from 3.3% in April, while in March a price drop of 9.1% was recorded, in February – by 2.2%, in January – by 3%, the State Statistics Service reported on Friday.

BRUSSELS, June 21 – The European Commission, the European Investment Bank (EIB), and the European Investment Fund (EIF) have agreed to establish a EUR 300 million export credit guarantee facility under the EU flagship investment programme InvestEU.

KYIV, June 21 – The board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected to consider the issue of completing the fourth review of the EFF program for Ukraine and the allocation of the fifth tranche of about $2.2 billion in the coming days, said Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Andriy Pyshnyy.