MOSCOW, Sept 14 - A UK court on September 13 overturned a June 18 order to freeze Gazprom assets in England and Wales, the Russian gas company reported.

KYIV, Sept 14 - Consumer sentiment in Ukraine has improved after falling at the beginning of the year: the consumer confidence index after a decrease of 3 points in the first quarter grew by 4 points in the second quarter, to 62 (on a scale of 0 to 200), according to a study by The Conference Board, prepared jointly with Nielsen.

KIEV, Sept. 15 – Ukraine's State Food-Grain Corporation has used $400 million of the first tranche of a Chinese loan worth $1.5 billion.

The corporation said on its website, referring to Deputy Chairman Andriy Repko, that the sum was used to buy grain and industrial crops in Ukraine and to finance expenses on grain supplies to CCEC Corporation under the cooperation agreements.

KIEV, Sept. 15 – China's CCEC Corporation has denied Ukrainian media reports that its powers under the contract with State Food-Grain Corporation have been transferred to an individual or another organization.

KIEV, Sept. 16 – The National Bank of Ukraine, under a proposal of the Individuals' Deposit Guarantee Fund, has decided to revoke the license of Ukrgazprombank (Kiev) and liquidate it, the regulator said on its website on Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 16 – The National Bank of Ukraine announced plans to start holding auctions to buy foreign currency in the amount of up to $10 million a day from banks.

KIEV, Sept. 16 – The World Bank has provided a loan of $500 million to finance the Second Financial Sector Development Policy Loan, the National Bank of Ukraine said on its website.

KIEV, Sept. 13 – Ukraine's Income and Tax Ministry proposes introducing an environmental tax on goods in aerosol cans, detergents and household chemicals, fluorescent lamps, polymeric materials, plastics, raw rubber and rubber, and articles made of them.

KIEV, Sept. 16 – Ukraine as of September 16 had threshed grain and leguminous crops on 11.2 million hectares, harvesting 34.06 million tons of grain.

KIEV, Sept. 16 - Ukrainian iron ore pellet producers had mixed results in January-August.

The London-listed Ferrexpo plc, which controls Ukraine's Poltava Mining, raised commercial pellet output 11.5% year-on-year to 7.077 million tons and iron ore concentrate production 11.8% to 8.63 million tons, an industry source told Interfax-Ukraine.