BAKU, June 18 - Azerbaijan and Ukraine have agreed on joint implementation of investment projects in the oil and gas sector and increasing the presence of the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) on the Ukrainian oil product market.

KYIV, June 17 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has left its key policy rate unchanged at 7.5%, the NBU has said on its website.

"The Board of the National Bank of Ukraine has decided to keep its key policy rate at 7.5% per annum," the central bank said in a Thursday press release.

KYIV, June 19 – Bank Pivdenny (Odesa) has signed a subsidiary loan agreement with state-controlled Ukreximbank (Kyiv) and received the opportunity to participate in a long-term financing project with the World Bank, the bank reported.

KYIV, June 19 – The consumer price index in 2020 may grow by 4.2%, and in 2021 – by 5.3%, which will allow the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) to continue easing its monetary policy, according to a macroeconomic review of the ICU investment group released on Friday.

KYIV, June 18 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) could provide a long-term loan of $81 million for the construction of an air separation unit of Kryvy Rih Industrial Gas LLC (Kyiv), created last October by the Dutch company Krig Holdings B.V., a joint venture of American-based Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. and ArcelorMittal, in which Air Products is the majority shareholder.

KYIV, June 18 – The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce issued the second partial award on the increase of the share of Ukrgazvydobuvannia (UGV) in the assets of joint operations with Karpatygaz LLC and Misen Enterprises AB, Naftogaz Ukrainy reported.

KYIV, June 20 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny has served Gazprom with an order to freeze assets in England and Wales that was issued by the Commercial Court in London on June 18, 2018 to enforce the Stockholm arbitration award, whereby Gazprom owes Naftogaz $2.6 billion, Naftogaz said in a press release on Wednesday.

KYIV, June 21 – The National Commission for Regulation of Energy, Housing and Utilities Services (NCER) has increased tariffs for storage, pumping from and out underground gas storage facilities.

KYIV, June 21 – The State Property Fund (SPF) is holding consultations with international advisors looking for the optimal model of operation of Turboatom and the size of the stake, which will be put up for sale, acting Head of the SPF Vitaliy Trubarov wrote on his Facebook page late on Tuesday.

KYIV, June 21 – Consumer confidence index in Ukraine in the first quarter of 2018 fell by 3 points, to 58 points (0–200 scale), according to the Conference Board Global Consumer Confidence Survey prepared jointly with Nielsen.