KIEV, Aug. 18 – Prices of fuel in the large-scale wholesale segment of Ukraine's fuel market slid on average by UAH 400-800 per ton in August in response to the pricing dynamics on foreign markets, according to TNK-BP Commerce Ltd. President Serhiy Lizunov.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Interest rates on loans will keep growing in the short term against the backdrop of the credit crunch, Iryna Kniazeva, the Ukrsotsbank deputy board chairman, said.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – Bogdan Corporation, one of the leading car market players in Ukraine, intends to assemble about 10,000 completely knocked-down (CKD) VAZ cars at its factory in Cherkasy by the end of 2008, Bogdan Corporation press secretary Serhiy Krasulia has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 19 - The proportion of foreign capital in the combined charter capital of Ukrainian banks shrank to 37.2% at the end of July 2008 from 40.5% at the end of June, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, Aug. 19 – Mariupol-based Azovstal steel mill, which is part of the Metinvest group, is to funnel $1 billion out of $5 billion set aside under a comprehensive program for the mill's modernization and renovation into the implementation of environmental protection programs.

KIEV, Aug. 19 – The State Commission for Securities and the Stock Market within a month will check Ukrtatnafta (Kremenchuk oil refinery in Poltava region), registrar Informsystema, custodian ING Bank Ukraine and depositary Interregional Stock Union to probe the lawfulness of their keeping of the registry of Ukrtatnafta's stocks.

KIEV, Aug. 17 - UkrGaz-Energo, an energy trader of which Russian gas monopoly Gazprom controls at least 25%, may invest in development of an offshore gas field in the Black Sea, a source at Naftogaz Ukrayiny said Friday.

KIEV/WARSAW, Aug. 16 - Polish meat concern PKM Duda has completed a deal to buy 100% of meat producer Express in Rivne region, which had belonged to Kiev-based Express Bank.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – Ukraine's state company UkrInterEnergo (the Ukrainian electricity exporter) and Moldova's Energocom have signed a supplement to their contract on electricity supplies, proposing a gradual rise in prices for Ukrainian electricity exported to Moldova, UkrInterEnergo President Mykola Pashkevych told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 16 - Ukraine has announced a tender to sell a 99.52% stake in Odessa portside chemical plant, with the starting price of the stake being UAH2.5 billion.