KIEV, July 16 – The initial UAH4 billion price set by the State Property Fund for a 99.567% stake in Odessa Portside Plant of is quite realistic, according to experts polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

"The proposed price is rather reasonable, and we don't expect that the final price of Odessa Portside Plant would exceed $750 million," said an analyst from Sokrat investment group, Dmytro Khoroshun.

WARSAW/KIEV, July 16 - The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) has bought a stake of almost 25% in Kiev-based Innex Stock Exchange, according to WSE President Ludwik Sobolewski.

KIEV, July 14 – AeroSvit-Ukrainian Airlines expects to receive a first batch of regional planes in 2009-2010 on leasing conditions, AeroSvit's press secretary, Serhiy Kutsy, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 15 – The Ukrainian stock market on Tuesday dropped sharply, with its major indicator – the PFTS index – plunging by 5.15%, or 43.83 points, to 642.18 points.

KIEV, July 16 - Nissan Motors Ukraine, a subsidiary of Japanese corporation Nissan Motor Co., in January through June 2008 sold 9,389 Nissan cars in Ukraine, up 94% year-on-year, the company said on Tuesday.

KIEV, July 16 – The Ukrainian aviation industry will be divided into an aircraft building company, a helicopter building company, an engine building company, and an avionics company, First Deputy Industry Minister Vitaliy Nemilostivy said in an interview with the Ekonomicheskiye Izvestia newspaper on Tuesday.

KIEV, July 13 - Ukrainian Mobile Communications has launched a new tariff plan for pre-paid customers under the MTS brand.

According to the company, the major benefit of the new tariff is the low cost for calls to Russian subscribers of the MTS company - UAH0.5 per minute, and to other operators - UAH0.75 per minute.

KIEV, July 13 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is providing a EUR10 million loan to a primary agricultural producer Agroinvest, part of MK Group - leading producer and exporter of crop farming cultures in Serbia and one of the main agribusiness operators in Europe.

KIEV, July 13 - The national Nadra Ukrayiny, its daughter company Poltavanaftogazgeologiya, and Kiev-based UkrNafta have signed an agreement to explore and develop the Sakhalinske oil and gas condensate field in Krasnokutsky District in Kharkiv region, Nadra's press service reported on Thursday.

KIEV, July 13 - The expected arrival on the Ukrainian market of Russia’s Sberbank will increase competition in the country's banking sector and, in particular, will push Ukraine's Oschadbank to develop more dynamically, Ukrainian first deputy head of the presidential secretariat, Oleksandr Shlapak, said.