KIEV, July 17 – No trade centers were commissioned in Kiev in the first half of 2012, while seven trade centers with a rent area of 230,834 square meters are to open in the capital in H2, according to the Ukrainian Trade Guild.

KIEV, July 17 – Industrial production in Ukraine fell by 1.4% in June versus June 2011, bringing the industrial production growth in six month of 2012 to 0.4% from 0.7% in January-May 2012, the State Statistics Service reported on Tuesday.

KIEV, July 17 - Moody's Investors Service today changed its outlook to negative from stable for the local-currency (LC) debt and deposit ratings of Subsidiary Bank Sberbank of Russia (Ba2) and First Ukrainian International Bank (B2).

KIEV, July 17 - Ukraine, following a three-month delay, will announce a tender in September to select a company that will develop Slobozhanske, one of its largest shale gas deposits, a senior official said Tuesday.

KIEV, July 15 – Dnipropetrovsk-based Interpipe pipe and wheel company, a manufacturer of railway wheels, has apparently run into difficulty paying for a $200 million bond issue it offered in 2007.

KIEV, July 15 - ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) has not canceled its investment liabilities in the social sphere but prolonged them in an annex to the agreement for 2011, while they ended in 2010, according to the company.

KHARKIV, July 14 - The second shipment of BTR-4 infantry combat vehicles to Iraq will be done on time despite problems in the delivery of parts, acting Malyshev Plant Director Valeriy Predko said.

KIEV, July 15 – Ukraine in 2012 is planning to increase electricity generation by 1.3% or by 2.6 billion kilowatt hours compared to the forecasted indicator for 2011 – from 197.5 billion kilowatt hours to 200.1 billion kilowatt hours, according to a draft state program on the social and economic development of Ukraine for 2012 presented at a meeting in the Ukrainian Economic Development and Trade Ministry on Thursday.

KIEV, July 15 - Ukraine increased electricity exports by 17.3% or by 365.5 million kilowatt-hours in H1, to 2.473 billion kilowatt-hours, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry reported.

KIEV, July 15 - An international consortium consisting of India's Bhilai Engineering, Kharkiv's Giprokoks and Kiev's Ukrindustry consortium has won a tender to build a coke complex at the steel works of India's National Mineral Development Corporation.