Ukraine’s gross external debt as of early July was $114.836 billion, up by 1.05% from the beginning of the year, according to the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). Since the beginning of the year, the gross external debt of the country has increased by 1.16%. According to the central bank, the debt…
Next year, the minimum wage will grow from UAH 3,200 to UAH 3,723 ($142). The minimum living wage per person will be UAH 1,700 from January 1, 2018, UAH 1,777 from July 1, and UAH 1,853 from December 1, 2018. Such a growth of social standards is stipulated in the draft Law of Ukraine “On…
Ukraine has received proposals to buy back 2019 eurobonds for $1.161 billion and 2020 eurobonds for $415.152 million and chosen to accept all of the bonds validly tendered for repurchase, the issuer has reported on the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) on September 18. “The offeror hereby announces that the total final acceptance amount is equal…
The Boryspil International Airport is conducting another round of negotiations with one of the largest European air-carriers, Ryanair, to ensure its entry into the Ukrainian market, Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan reported. “At the moment Ryanair is in the negotiation process with the Boryspil Airport. I hope that these negotiations will be a success, from…
The trade turnover between Ukraine and the European Union grew by one third over the first eight months of the current year compared with the same period in 2016, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko stated during 14th Yalta European Strategy (YES) annual meeting. “The Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area has allowed us to restructure…
In the current week the Ukrainian export market of soybean oil demonstrated some increasing of selling prices, due to rather high demand for the product. As of September 13 selling prices for hydrated soybean oil usually varied within the range of $770-775/ton FCA, crude soybean oil – $730-750/ton FCA, up nearly by $10-20/ton compared with…