KIEV, Oct. 27 – The National Security and Defense Council has proposed that the National Bank of Ukraine restrict the ceiling rate for individual deposits taken by banks on the domestic market and introduce an almost 100% ban on the reservation of consumer crediting.

KIEV, Oct. 27 – Japan’s Rating and Investment Information, Inc. (R&I) has placed Ukraine on its Rating Monitor with a view to downgrading, according to Ukraine's Finance Ministry.

KIEV, Oct. 27 – Ukraine’s political groups on Monday failed to agree on an emergency legislation package to avoid a deep economic recession, but will keep trying until the package is approved.

KIEV, Oct. 27 – Ukraine will probably use money from the International Monetary Fund to help pay corporate foreign debts and to stabilize the hryvnia, President Viktor Yushchenko said Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 27 – The National Bank of Ukraine on Monday widened the hryvnia’s trading band against the U.S. dollar through the end of the year, but decided to keep the new figures secret to avoid panic.

KIEV, Oct. 27 - Top officials from TNK-BP, Russian oil major that owns a big oil refinery in Ukraine, met President Viktor Yushchenko Wednesday seeking measures to help oil refinery sector, the company said Thursday.

KIEV, Oct. 27 - Three Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in Iraq on Thursday after a roadside bomb exploded targeting a Ukrainian armored personnel vehicle, the Defense Ministry reported.

KIEV, Oct. 27 - A Ukrainian government team will travel to Moscow next week for talks to arrange shipments of Turkmen natural gas to Ukraine in 2006 via Russian gas pipelines, an official said Thursday.

KIEV, Oct. 27 - The incomplete Kryvy Rih Oxidized Ore Mining and Enrichment Combine will be the next enterprise to be privatized in Ukraine following Monday's sale of the Kryvorizhstal steel mill, Dmytro Parfenenko, the Property Fund's deputy chairman, told a press conference.

KIEV, Oct. 27 ??“ Oleksiy Ivchenko, board chairman of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, inspected last week the construction site of a modern center for oil, fuel, and natural and liquefied gas analysis in Boyarka along with representatives of the European Commission delegation to Ukraine.