KIEV, Sept. 22 – A cabinet resolution on the cancellation of the licenses of British oil and gas company Cadogan Petroleum plc, which owns assets in Ukraine - on the Pirkovska, Zahoriansky, Bitliansky, Monastyretsky and Krasnoilsky fields - is illegal, according to the company.

KIEV, Sept. 22 – Mortgage lending in Ukraine will resume no earlier than late in 2011, according to the head of the retail product development department at Kiev-based VAB Bank, Anton Shaperenkov.

KIEV, Sept. 22 - Presidential politicking ahead of the January 2010 election is behind the policy confusion that has reigned at the National Bank of Ukraine for more than a year, the Moody's international ratings agency said in a comment on Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 22 – The decline of the Ukrainian stock market by 70% in 2008 can be explained mainly by unwarranted speculation last year, when the market soared by 135.4%, says Serhiy Biriuk, a member of the State Commission for Securities and the Stock Market.

KIEV, Sept. 22 – The problems of AIG, the world's largest international insurance company, would not affect the activities of its ALICO life insurance subdsidiary and Ukraine's ALICO AIG Life and its sister companies, the Ukrainian insurer said in a statemenr.

KIEV, Sept. 22 – Ukraine’s hryvnia strengthened slightly against the U.S. dollar on Monday as the dollar weakened around the world in response to the U.S. government’s attempts to work out a $700 billion package to bail out the country’s financial sector.

ALUSHTA (Crimea), Sept. 19 – Ukrainian authorities should take urgent measures to stabilize the situation on the stock market and boost its development in the wake of the international financial crisis, according to Iryna Zoria, the president of the leading Ukraine stock exchange, the PFTS.

KIEV, Sept. 19 - Ukraine’s crude oil and gas condensate output will probably fall 11.9% to 3.9 million metric tons in 2008, down from 4.43 million metric tons in 2007, according to a forecast released by the government Friday.

KIEV, Sept. 22 - Valeriy Khoroshkovskiy, a businessman and a former Economy Minister, paid $200 million for 61% stake in Inter Television, Ukraine's largest network, a Russian newspaper reported Thursday.

The deal, which was closed in July, values Inter at about $330 mln, but Khoroshkovskiy believes the company's value will grow to $1 bln within the next three years.

KIEV, Sept. 22 - The Russian-British oil company TNK-BP, which pumps Russian crude south through the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline, had shipped 5 mln tons of oil by Sept. 16.