KIEV, Oct. 18 – The situation on the currency market is developing positively, which gives grounds to expect further market liberalization steps, according to Serhiy Nikolaichuk, director of the monetary policy and economic analysis department of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 16 - Ukraine on Friday approved a plan to reform the national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, taking the country closer to securing $800 million in loans for natural gas purchases.

KIEV, Oct. 15 - Monetary base in Ukraine in September decreased by 2.3%, to UAH 321.2 billion, while money supply increased by 1.7%, to UAH 964.7 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, Oct. 15 – Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee has allowed the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to accumulate more than 25% of shares in Raiffeisen Bank Aval (Kiev), according to the website of the AMC.

KIEV, Oct. 16 – Ukraine exported agricultural products worth $2 billion to the European Union in January-July, said Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko.

KIEV, Oct. 16 - Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI), the world's large tobacco producer, cut cigarette shipments in Ukraine by 27.5% in July-September 2015 year-over-year, to 4.704 billion cigarettes.

KIEV, Oct. 18 - Vindkraft Ukraina LLC plans to build wind power plants with a total capacity of 18 MW on the Black Sea coast in 2013, the co-owner of the company, Fredrik Svinhufvud, said at the International Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Forum REF-2012 held in Kiev.

KIEV, Oct. 18 – Ukraine plans to announce tenders in December to sign Product Sharing Agreements for the Slobozhanske oil and gas field (Kharkiv and Poltava regions) and Prykerchensky shallow field (the Black Sea shelf), Ecology and Natural Resources Minister Eduard Stavytsky said.

KIEV, Oct. 18 - Ukraine’s No. 2 ferroalloy producer, Zaporizhia Ferroalloy Plant (ZFP), plans to boost ferroalloy output by 60% next year after the government agreed to lower power tariffs, Zaporizhia regional administration reported Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 17 - The State Property Fund will offer 94.48% of Kharkiv Combined Heat and Power Plant-5 in a privatization auction on November 7.

The privatization auction will offer 279.562 million shares, the State Property Fund told the Vidomosti Pryvatyzatsii newspaper.