KIEV, July 19 – The e-commerce market in Ukraine could grow by 35% in hryvnias and by 10-15% in U.S. dollars in 2016, the Ukrainian Direct Marketing Association forecasts.
KIEV, July 20 – The national sugar producers' association Ukrtsukor predicts that sugar production would grow by 40% in the 2016/17 agricultural year (September-August), to 2 million tons.
KIEV, July 20 – Ukrainian Ambassador to Canada Andriy Shevchenko expects that Ukrainian and Canadian parliaments would ratify the Ukraine-Canada Free Trade Agreement this autumn.
KIEV, July 20 – The European Union may grant EUR 100 million to Ukraine for the needs of the State Energy Efficiency Fund.
The Cabinet of Ministers reported after a meeting of Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman with European Commission Vice-President for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic that the latter said that the EU could help to replenish the fund.
KIEV, July 20 - The unfavorable investment climate in Ukraine is the main reason why no company filed a bid to participate in the tender to sell public joint-stock company Odessa Port-Side Plant, Group DF Managing Director Borys Krasniansky said.
KIEV, July 17 - The fall in industrial production in Ukraine in June 2015 compared to June 2014 slowed down to 18.1% from 20.7% in May and 21.7% in April, the State Statistics Service reported.
KIEV, July 17 – American partners are mulling the financing of long-time programs at low rates via U.S. Eximbank to buy modern foreign machinery for the needs of Ukrainian agriculture, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.
KIEV, July 17 – State-owned Ukreximbank plans to finalize a deal on restructuring eurobonds in the last 10 days of July, according to the website of the issuer.
KIEV, July 17 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has revised its outlooks for the cities Kiev and Dnipropetrovsk to stable from negative, according to a press release of the agency.
BRUSSELS, July 17 - European Union countries have limited international funding for projects in Russia and Crimea by adopting six new measures related to the Ukrainian crisis and Russia's annexation of Crimea.
