KIEV, Sept. 16 – The breakup of the majority coalition in Ukraine was not an unexpected event and it won't have an immediate influence on the sovereign credit ratings on the country, the international rating agency Standard & Poor's said on Tuesday.
KIEV, Sept. 17 – Ukraine's cabinet plans next year to allocate UAH1.037 billion on a program to set up a nuclear fuel production cycle and bring the Prydniprovsky Chemical Plant into an environmentally friendly state.
KIEV, Sept. 17 – The national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrainy has boosted its stockpile of natural gas in the underground gas storage facilities to 16 billion cubic meters, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said at a presentation of the draft national budget for 2009 on Tuesday.
KIEV, Sept. 18 - The current account deficit of Ukraine's balance of payments in January-June grew almost fourfold year-on-year, to $6.8 billion, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.
KIEV, Sept. 18 – Foreign investors are leaving the Ukrainian market, and this is a strong factor behind the fall in the hryvnia exchange rate to the dollar, according to financiers interviewed by Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.
KIEV, Sept. 18 – The growth seen last week in the prices of grain on the Ukrainian market was influenced by statements from the Ukrainian cabinet regarding the possible cancellation of grain export quotas, according to agriculture analysts.
KIEV, Sept. 18 - Commerzbank is buying a 60% stake in Bank Forum, Ukraine’s No. 10 bank by total assets, for $600 million, the Financial Times reported Tuesday, citing the German group.
KIEV, Sept. 17 - The EMZ Group, a division of System Capital Management's Metinvest steel holding, reports a 5% year-on-year increase in shipments of finished roll to 1.749 million tons in the first eight months of 2007.
KIEV, Sept. 17 – Real GDP growth in Ukraine in August was 5.8% year-on-year, compared to 7.2% in July and 7.8% in June, the State Statistics Committee reported.
KIEV, Sept. 18 - Ferrexpo Plc (London), which owns the Poltava Mining Combine, has signed a deal with ZAO Novokramatorsky Machine Building Plant to buy six new excavators for $46 million to build a mine at Yeristovske iron ore field, the company said.
