KIEV, July 15 – Ukrainian businesses continue improving their inflation forecasts and expectations related to the companies' financial and economic situation, the National Bank of Ukraine said, citing its regular poll of top managers.

"Inflationary expectations have been decreasing for a third quarter in a row, and were 11.8% for the next 12 months against 14.6% forecasted in the previous quarter," reads the posting. "Those polled listed an increase in production costs, the level of households' incomes and budget outlays among the key factors of influence on consumer prices."