KIEV, Aug. 18 – Active interventions of the National Bank of Ukraine could return the hryvnia exchange rate to UAH 7.7-7.8/$1 from UAH 8.33/$1 after trading on Friday, said Oleksandr Okhrymenko, an advisor to the chairman of Ukrgasbank.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – The net growth of foreign direct investment in Ukraine January through June 2009 was estimated at $2.359 billion, which was 34.1% of the figure registered in the first half of 2008, the State Statistics Committee reported.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – The prices of premium class housing in Kiev will grow by 20-25% in 2008, Vitaliy Boiko, the director of the Ukrainian Trade Guild consulting company (UTG, Kiev), has forecast.

KIEV, Aug. 18 - Royal Jordanian of Jordan on Aug. 17 started regular flights from Kiev to Amman, Royal Jordanian Vice President for commerce and services Hussein Dabbas said at Interfax-Ukraine on Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 15 – The total area of A and B class offices should reach 1 million square meters in Kiev by 2010, according to a report by the Ukrainian Trade Guild.

KIEV, Aug. 18 – The incomes of Ukrainian communications operators from services grew by 19.5% year on year in January to July 2008, to UAH 26.155 billion, the State Statistics Committee has said.

KIEV, Aug. 18 - Ukraine's government approved an order that calls for building two new oil refineries, in Odessa and Feodosia, to alleviate dependence on Russian oil, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Thursday.

KIEV, Aug. 18 - In the first half of 2005 the net income of the Ukrainian Studio 1+1 Group including Studio 1+1 TV channel equaled $31.54 million, or 24.4% more than during the same period of 2004.

KYIV, July 17 - The Velta group of companies with assets for the extraction of titanium-bearing ores in Novomyrhorod (Kirovohrad region) has signed an agreement with the American EAS Advisors on raising funds for a titanium plant in the United States.

KYIV, July 17 - For the first time since the start of the full-scale war, businesses expects an increase in business activity in the next 12 months: the business activity expectations index in the second quarter rose to 104.5% from 91.2% in the first quarter, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said.