In 2021, the Ukrainian economy will grow by 4%. This is stated in the updated IMF forecast.
At the same time, next year growth will slow to 3.4%.
Inflation in Ukraine is expected to increase to 7.9% in 2021 after declining to 2.7% in 2020, and to 6.8% in 2022.
The current account surplus of 4.3% of GDP in 2020 in 2021 will be replaced by a deficit of 2.5% of GDP and its increase to 3.6% of GDP in 2022.
The IMF forecasts a decrease in unemployment in Ukraine from 9% last year to 8.6% this year and 8.4% next year.
At the same time, the IMF predicts that in five years Ukraine’s economy will grow by 4% per year with an average annual inflation of 5% and a current account deficit of 3.8% of GDP.
Note that in 2021 the Ukrainian economy began to fall in January by 2.6-2.8%. At the same time, the Ministry of Economy maintains the forecast for the current year of economic growth of 4.6%.
Chinese technology company ByteDance, the owner of the popular social media platform TikTok, is in preliminary talks with international banks to secure a loan of approximately $20 billion. If completed, the transaction would become the largest overseas borrowing in the company’s history and one of the biggest technology financing deals globally in recent years. According […]
U.S. semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm has announced the acquisition of AI startup Modular in a deal valued at approximately $3.9 billion. The acquisition is expected to strengthen the company’s position in the rapidly expanding artificial intelligence market and help it increase its presence in the data center segment, where Nvidia currently holds a dominant position. According […]
German automotive giant Volkswagen has agreed to sell a controlling stake in its Everllence division (formerly MAN Energy Solutions) to U.S. private investment firm Bain Capital. The transaction is valued at approximately €7.4 billion ($8.4 billion) and is expected to become one of Europe’s largest industrial asset sales of 2026. Under the terms of the […]
U.S. technology giant Amazon has announced an additional $13 billion investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure, cloud services, and logistics in India. Following this new commitment, the company’s total investment in the country between 2010 and 2030 will exceed $88 billion, underscoring the strategic importance of the Indian market for one of the world’s largest technology […]
Tencent Holdings is testing a new mobile application designed to help foreign visitors make payments and access everyday services in China, according to Bloomberg, citing Jiemian News. The app, called TenPayGo, is being developed as an all-in-one digital services platform that combines mobile payments with travel-related features. According to its description on the App Store, […]
Introduction Just ten years ago, most executives built their businesses around relatively stable forecasts. The geopolitical environment was more predictable, technological changes occurred gradually, and economic cycles allowed companies to develop long-term plans stretching five to ten years into the future. In 2026, the world looks entirely different. Wars, geopolitical conflicts, trade restrictions between major […]
Europe’s largest automaker, Volkswagen, is planning to cut up to 100,000 jobs and shut down four manufacturing plants in Germany, marking the most extensive restructuring in the company’s 89-year history, Reuters reports. According to the report, the group’s large-scale transformation plan also includes reducing its planned investments by approximately 15%, to around €130 billion over […]
The United States has reinstated the full enforcement of sanctions against Russian oil companies Rosneft and Lukoil following several temporary extensions. The latest sanctions waiver expired on June 16 and was not renewed. The announcement was made by Vladyslav Vlasiuk, the Ukrainian President’s Commissioner for Sanctions Policy. “The U.S. sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil, originally […]
PrivatBank has won a major victory in the High Court of London in a multibillion-dollar case against its former owners, oligarchs Ihor Kolomoiskyi and Hennadiy Boholiubov, the bank’s press service reported. “The High Court of London ruled that the two individuals unlawfully misappropriated nearly $2 billion from the bank through a very complex refinancing scheme […]
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The American information technology giant of Microsoft intends to buy the creator and developer of games ZeniMax Media for $ 7.5 billion. “On Monday, Microsoft announced plans to acquire ZeniMax Media, parent company for Bethesda Softworks, one of the world’s largest private developers and game publishers … Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will […]
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Respectively to technical documents published on the website of the US Patent and Trademark Office, Apple engineers suggest using electromechanical materials for protecting electronic devices. The “smart” case will read electric and magnetic fields and change the properties at operation of certain triggers. The case itself will consist of the main body, processor, magnetic circuit […]
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Belarusian airline Belavia has extended its decision to refuse flights to Ukraine until the end of September, the company’s press service reports. “The Ukrainian side informed about the extension of the ban on Belavia flights until September 30, 2021. This is their official position. In this regard, the suspension of all flights to Ukraine has […]
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Global gold prices have surged again, surpassing the psychological threshold of $4,000 per ounce for the first time ever, according to data from the Comex exchange. As of 3:00 p.m. Kyiv time, December futures were up more than 0.3%, trading at $3,989.3 per ounce, after briefly reaching $4,000.1 per ounce earlier in the day. Western […]
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Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine allowed the company Uniline finance to gain control of six agricultural companies in Dnipropetrivsk and Zaporizhzha regions. Based on the received permission, the company Uniline finance Ltd. (British Virgin Islands) is going to acquire more than 50% of the shares of Astev Investment Company (Cyprus). According to the AMCU, the online […]
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In February, the number of new orders for aircraft in the US aerospace Boeing Corporation for the first time since November 2019 exceeded the number of cancellations. So, last month Boeing sold 82 planes and registered 51 cancellations of orders for aircrafts. At the same time, Boeing has launched 22 aircraft, including 18 aircraft 737 […]
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Агентство S&P Global Ratings знизило довгостроковий суверенний рейтинг України в іноземній валюті із CCC+ до CC. Переддефолтний рейтинг у зв’язку з рішенням Кабміну просити бондхолдерів про відстрочку виплат за всіма зовнішніми зобов’язаннями на 24 місяці. Така реструктуризація, за оцінкою S&P, є рівнозначною дефолту. S&P Global Ratings не виключає, що знизить рейтинг до SD (вибірковий дефолт) […]
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Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrak denied his deputy Anna Yurchenko’s statement about toll roads in Ukraine. The day before, she said that six such roads are planned to be built in Ukraine and called the estimated cost of travel on them. “I will explain why this information is not true, and what is really happening,” Kubrak […]
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One of the largest airlines in the United States and globally, United Airlines Holdings Inc., warned on Wednesday that it could lay off 36,000 employees since October 1. Almost half of these employees are flight attendants. The company employed about 96,000 people as of December. This step of United confirms the deplorable state of the […]
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Chip maker, Advanced Micro Devices, is in talks to buy a rival chip maker – the American company Xilinx, reported The Wall Street Journal. The deal might be exceeding to $ 30 billion and could be announced for the next week. The merger will become one of the largest transactions in the industry this year, […]
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Co-owner of AgroGasTrading, Oleksandr Horbunenko, announced on his Facebook page that both he and his company have become targets of information attacks, which he links to his interest in participating in the privatization of the Odesa Port Plant (OPZ). “Recently, incredible myths and stories have been actively constructed around my name again… Today, people are […]
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In 2021, the Ukrainian economy will grow by 4%. This is stated in the updated IMF forecast. At the same time, next year growth will slow to 3.4%. Inflation in Ukraine is expected to increase to 7.9% in 2021 after declining to 2.7% in 2020, and to 6.8% in 2022. The current account surplus of […]
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Company representatives, who engaged in the design, construction and equipment for solar power plants, note a significant decline in demand for their services. This is due to instability of the industry and growing debts for “green” electricity. “We are talking about 1260 MW of RES generation that has been launched in the first three quarters […]
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Shares of Johnson & Johnson, which rose till 1.44% over the past week, on Tuesday closed with a decrease of 2.3%, despite on the publication of a better-than-expected Wall Street experts, a report for 3 fin. quarter. Investors are concerned about the potential consequences of ending the large-scale study of the J&J vaccine against COVID-19, […]
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The press service of Hawkley reports that Hawkley Oil & Gas Limited Australian mining company had reported about the Ukrainian company sale transaction assets of Tomeas Assets Ltd. The amount of transaction has constituted 1 million dollars. Negotiations on sale have continued since February 2016. Reportedly that Hawkley Oil & Gas Limited will allocate proceeds […]
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