KIEV, Oct. 15 – Rent rates for class B offices in July to September 2008 remained practically unchanged at $55-60 per square meter a month due to the liquidity crisis.

"The almost full halt in the crediting of individuals and the partial halt to crediting legal entities stabilized the level of rent rates for commercial real estate in Kiev. In particular, rent rates were practically unchanged in class B business centers, at $55-60 per square meter a month," according to Kiev-based TIKO-Construction.

KIEV, Oct. 16 – The risks faced by Ukrainian banks are heightened by their liquidity misbalance, currency misbalance, gaps in financing and a surplus of branches, according to experts of Kiev-based Deloitte&Touche USC, part of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Group.

KIEV, Oct. 16 - Ukraine could have energy problems in three years when new gas pipelines are opened to Europe that bypass its territory, said Vitaliy Martyniuk, an analyst at the Ukrainian Independent Political Research Center.

KIEV, Oct. 16 – Ukraine produced 28 million metric tons of grain as of the middle of October, less than the government expected this year, Agriculture Policy Minister Yuriy Melnyk said Tuesday.

KIEV, Oct. 16 – Ukraine’s consumer prices, in contrast to most of forecasts, will not rise more than 10% in 2007 despite some major recent hikes in food prices, Finance Minister Mykola Azarov said Tuesday.

KIEV, Oct. 15 – Simferopol-based state ChornomorNaftoGaz hopes in 2008 to resume sales of gas to commercial consumers in order to receive additional funds to increase its resource base, ChornomorNaftoGaz Board Chairman Anatoliy Prysyazhnyuk said at press conference in Simferopol.

KIEV, Oct. 15 – The State Aviation Administration of Ukraine plans to ask the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to review its decision to change the currency for tariffs on air transportation from the dollar to the euro.

KIEV, Oct. 15 – The sale of Kiev-based Ukrsotsbank could be completed in late November or December, says Ukrsotsbank Chairman Borys Timonkin.

KIEV, Oct. 13 ??“ Kiev-based Sincome Rural Investment Company is going to become a co-founder of an asset management company, together with a Swiss company specializing in this activity.

KRYVY RIH. Oct 13 - The Metinvest Group's Kryvy Rih-based Central and Northern iron ore mining and beneficiation plants will spend a total of $500 million through 2011 on the second phase of a modernization program, Oleksandr Vilkul, the honorary president of both mining enterprises, told reporters.