KYIV, Jan 19 – The withdrawal of nonresidents from Ukrainian securities is unlikely to affect macroeconomic indicators in January-March, but it will have an impact on the fiscal sector and will have an impact in the longer term, analysts said.

KYIV, Jan 19 – Achieving de-escalation through diplomacy and removing geopolitical tensions would allow the hryvnia to strengthen to UAH 27/$, Olena Bilan, chief economist at Dragon Capital, believes.

KYIV, Jan 19 – PSA Group in Ukraine (Peugeot, Citroen, Opel and DS Automobiles) in 2020 increased its share in the market of new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles by 2.2 percentage points (p.p.) compared to 2019, to 8.5%, despite the fact that in the whole Eurasia sales increased by 0.2 percentage points (from 0.7% to 0.9%), according to a press release of the PSA Group.

KYIV, Jan 19 – Creation of transparent and competitive energy markets is the principal condition for Ukraine's joining the European Green Deal, acting Energy Minister Yuriy Vitrenko said during a meeting of Interdepartmental Working Group to coordinate the activities to eliminate the effects of climate change within the scope of the European Commission's initiatives European Green Deal.

KYIV, Jan 19 - Ukrainian banks in 2020 reduced the number of structural divisions by 10.8%, or by 868 branches, to 7,134, due to a slowdown in business activity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KYIV, Jan 19 – Artyomsol, the largest producer of salt in Central and Eastern Europe, reduced output by 41% on the year to 1.18 million metric tons in 2020, citing weather, COVID-19 lockdown and growing global competition.

KYIV, Jan 20 – The level of coal stocks at the thermal power plants (TPPs) of PJSC Centrenergo from November 1, 2020 as of January 11 of this year has decreased almost 90% - from 336,000 tons to 40,000 tons, the company said on its website on Tuesday.

KYIV, Jan 20 – The government will take over management control over key state-owned power companies, including nuclear power generator Energoatom and power grid operator Ukrenergo, to ease integration with the European Union, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Wednesday.

KYIV, Jan 20 – The International Monetary Fund may postpone further disbursements of $5 billion stand-by loan to Ukraine for several months due to introduction of state controls on the gas market, BofA Global Research reported.

KYIV, Jan 20 – Ukraine will hire legal advisors to fend off $3.5 billion lawsuit from Chinese investors that may have stealthily acquired the country’s only producer of aircraft engines Motor Sich, the Justice Ministry said.