National Bank has revised the economic forecasts for Ukraine, and worsened some of them. In particular, GDP this year will grow by 1.6% instead of the previously estimated 1.9 percent. “The Outlook revision occurred because of the worst results of economic activity in the first half of the year, particularly in the service sector, and because of revisions to estimates of the grain harvest. Will remain low performance of the sectors most vulnerable to the rupture of industrial relations with […]

The national Bank of Ukraine expects this year to 3 billion dollars under the program of cooperation with the International monetary Fund. This was announced acting head of the NBU Jacob Smoliy, UNIAN reports. “Due to the fact that delayed consideration of key legislation necessary for the program with the IMF, and sessional activity will resume in the fall, we expect the transfer of one tranche to the next year,” he said. Due to anticipated funding from the IMF will […]

The transit of Russian gas through Ukraine to Europe over the past six years reached the highest rate in the summer season to 270 million cubic meters per day. This is the state operator of the Ukrainian gas transportation system “Ukrtransgaz”. Indicators transit began to rise in April of this year (plus 22%). Average daily transportation volumes of Russian gas through Ukraine’s GTS are: March – 214 million cubic meters, April – 245 million cubic meters, may – 249 million […]

In the past cyber attacks virus Petya.A problem in their work felt one-third of Ukrainian banks. Therefore, the financial institution will strengthen information security and co-operation in combating cyber threats. “Today, all these banks have minimised the impact of the actions of intruders, and almost fully resumed its work in regular mode”, – noted in the national Bank. Because of cyber attacks, the regulator has imposed a state of emergency in selected banks. Among the reasons that led to the […]

During the first six months of 2017 in the consolidated budget of Ukraine received 393,6 billion. And that is 86.5 billion UAH (by 28.2%) more than in the same period last year. From the beginning, the state budget received 307,1 billion UAH, in local budgets – 86,5 mlrd grn. This is evidenced by the State fiscal service. “In the context of the main payments in January-June 2017 the increase to the corresponding period in 2016 are secured by the value-added […]