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.

KIEV, Sept. 22 - A 18.296% UkrTatNafta stake returned to state ownership under a Higher Economic Court ruling will be transferred to the state-owned Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

KYIV, Aug 21 – The current preliminary estimate of the necessary capital expenditure (CapEx) for the Kernel agricultural holding to repair and restore equipment that was damaged or destroyed during the recent attacks is at least $20 million, according to its announcement on the Warsaw Stock Exchange on Saturday night.

KYIV, August 21 – The growth of Ukraine's real gross domestic product (GDP) slowed down to 8% in July compared to the same period last year from 15% in June, primarily due to the high statistical base, as the rate of GDP decline in the third quarter of last year slowed down significantly, according to the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting (IER).

KYIV, Aug 21 – Agricultural holding Kernel, one of the largest in Ukraine, has almost completed the harvesting of winter wheat on an area of 60,000 hectares and winter rapeseed from 10,000 hectares, and notes an increase in yields for them and predicts an increase in production of all crops in the 2023 season, according to the company's announcement on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.