KYIV, Aug 27 - ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) plans to invest $700 million in the company in 2021-2024.

Mauro Longobardo, the CEO of the company, during a visit by the president of Ukraine to the enterprise with an American delegation led by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun, presented a complex of continuous casting machines Nos. 2 and 3 at the production site.

KYIV, Aug 27 - The Ukrainian Association of Producers of Ferroalloys and Other Electrometallurgy Products (UkrFA), the Federation of Metallurgists of Ukraine and the Ukrcement association have asked parliamentarians to withdraw from Parliament draft law No. 3091 on state environmental control and start developing a new bill with the involvement of specialized associations, representatives of business entities and the public.

KYIV, Aug 27 - Alfa-Bank (Kyiv) has downgraded the forecast for the fall in the real gross domestic product of Ukraine (GDP) in 2020 to 3.5% from 2% (in the April forecast) and expects a further deterioration in 2021 at the level of 3.9%.

KYIV, Aug 29 – Oilseeds harvest in Ukraine could grow by 1.5 million tons this year compared with 2017, to 21.7 million, according to the UkrAgroConsult consulting agency.

KYIV, Aug 29 – DTEK Renewables has raised EUR 90 million for construction of the first phase of Prymorska wind farm with a capacity of 100 MW in Zaporizhia region, the press service of DTEK Energy Holding reported on Tuesday.

KYIV, Aug 28 - Ukraine in the current marketing year (2017/2018 MY, September-August) will reduce sugar exports by at least 25% compared to the previous MY, the National Association of Sugar Producers Ukrtsukor reports.

KYIV, Aug 29 – One of the essential factors of influencing the pace of the hryvnia exchange rate on the interbank currency market is the agribusiness "black" market, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Oleh Churiy has said.

MOSCOW, Aug 29 - The District Court of Amsterdam by its decision dated May 30 ruled to seize the shares in the Blue Stream gas pipeline of Blue Stream Pipeline Company B.V. belonging to Gazprom under the lawsuit of Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

LONDON, Aug 29 – Transgaz, the operator of the gas transportation system of Romania, has stated it is mulling the possibility of building another interconnector connecting the country with Ukraine, which can be considered as an alternative for the Bulgaria-Romania-Hungary-Austria (BRUA) pipeline for gas exports from the Black Sea deposits.

KYIV, Aug 29 – Xoom, a subsidiary structure of the PayPal payment service, has launched a service of money transfer from the United States to Ukraine, the initiator of the group on the introduction of PayPal in Ukraine, Ilia Kenigshtein, said.