KIEV, Oct. 15 - Ukraine's total industrial production in January-September 2010 went up by 10.8% year-on-year, the State Statistics Committee said.

Industrial output went up by January-August by 10.9% year-on-year and January-July 2009 - 11.1%.

KIEV, Oct. 15 – The stoppage of work Odessa oil refinery is linked to a rise in untaxed imports of fuel to Ukraine, domination of smuggled and falsified products on the market along with the absence of the government's actions to repress the schemes, according to Kiev-based A-95 consulting group.

KIEV, Oct. 15 – Expectations that the hryvnia, the Ukrainian currency, will weaken rose in Q3, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

"Expectations concerning the stability of the forex rate have considerably weakened: the share of the pollees who expect that the forex rate of the hryvnia against the U.S. dollar will remain unchanged slid to 16.5% compared to 40.3% in the second quarter," reads the report.

KIEV, Oct. 15 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development now believes Ukraine's GDP will shrink 14% in 2009 compared with its earlier forecast for a 10% contraction, the bank said in a statement.

KIEV, Oct. 16 – The World Bank has retained its forecast for the fall in Ukraine's gross domestic product in 2009 at 15% and revised upwards the GDP growth forecast in 2010 from 1% to 2.5%, World Bank senior economist Ruslan Piontkivsky said.

He said inflation in Ukraine in 2009 is projected at up to 14%, and in 2010 at up to 11%.

KIEV, Oct. 18 - Ukraine's GDP in 2007 will grow by 6.7%, average annual inflation will be 11.5%, and inflation from December to December will be 11%, according to the World Economic Outlook of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Spillovers and Cycles in the Global Economy.

KIEV, Oct. 18 - Ukraine’s biggest natural gas trader, UkrGaz-Energo, wired the first $200 million payment to pay an outstanding $929 million debt owed to Russian gas giant Gazprom for gas supplies, the trader reported Thursday.

KIEV, Oct. 16 – Prosecutor General Oleksandr Medvedko doesn't rule out that the circle of suspects may widen in the case of Dnipropetrovsk gas explosion, which destroyed a residential building on Oct. 13 and caused 16 confirmed deaths already.

KIEV, Oct. 17 – Ukrainian communications operators in January through September increased their revenues from services by 19.9% year-on-year, to UAH28.96 billion, according to the State Statistics Committee.

KIEV, Oct. 17 – State Export-Import Bank of Ukraine (Ukreximbank), through its representative office in New York, plans to establish business relations between large Ukrainian companies and foreign partners, according to a bank announcement.