Pursuant to the agreements reached by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and the Emir of the State of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, a phone conversation took place between Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Ihor Zhovkva and Minister of Transport and Communications of the State of Qatar…
Finance Ministry borrowed UAH 34.7 billion ($1.3 billion), US$1.2 billion and EUR 277 million for the national budget at weekly bond auctions to place government domestic loan bonds in January-April. The weighted average yield on government bonds placement grew from 9.9% to 10.1% for securities in hryvnias and from 3.1% to 3.2% in dollars, while…
In Ukraine, 490 thousand citizens are officially registered as unemployed. “Today, with 490,000 persons officially registered as unemployed, we can say that the statistics on reduction in the number of unemployed will demonstrate the effectiveness of the government’s plan to create 500,000 jobs. Or if it is ineffective, the statistics will also reflect this and…
The Cabinet of Ministers does not plan to increase the electricity tariff for the population in 2020, according to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. “We are not going to change the cost of electricity for the population this year,” Shmyhal said at a meeting of the Committee on Energy, Housing and Utilities Services. According to him,…
The Deposit Guarantee Fund of Ukraine has completed the liquidation of PJSC Ukrbusinessbank, according to the Fund’s press service. “On May 8, an entry was made to the United State Register of Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs and Public Organizations to register the termination PJSC Ukrbusinessbank as a legal entity, thus, the process of liquidation of…
Private joint-stock company Farmak (Kyiv), the pharmaceutical company, did not halt production and would gradually exit lockdown, the press service of the company reported. “Farmak continues production as usual. All lines are working as planned. However, after lockdown was announced all over the country on March 12 and the Health Ministry recommended that enterprises transfer…
Ukraine’s banking sector saw its profit grow by 23.8% YoY in the first quarter of 2020, to UAH 16 billion, the press service of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) reported. At the same time, in March alone, the banking sector received only UAH 97 million in profit due to a sharp increase in allocations…