In the first quarter of 2021, the net outflow of foreign direct investment from Ukraine amounted to 301 million dollars. This was reported on the website of the National Bank.
At the same time, negative reinvested earnings of $ 141 million were recorded.
According to the NBU, investments in equity (excluding reinvestment of income) amount to $ 307 million.
Net repayments on direct investor loans amount to $ 430 million.
The outflow of investments continues for the second year in a row. Since 2016, Ukraine has recorded a stable inflow of investments, and last year their outflow amounted to almost 870 million dollars.
SoftServe is expanding its presence and opening new office spaces in four cities — Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Uzhhorod, and Odesa. They are available for 250 people working in these regions as well as other employees. The coworking in Vinnytsia where SoftServe has around 50 employees is already fully operating. Odesa is the next — office space […]
COMBINE ROAD AND COMFORT Shell is launching a new coffee brand Shell Café all over Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) (to replace […]
Radisson Hotel Group is proud to be the world’s first hotel group to make all meetings and events across 400+ hotels in its EMEA portfolio carbon negative. For every event taking place at its participating hotels, Radisson Hotel Group will offset double the carbon footprint, to ensure that every meeting has a positive impact on […]
During trading on Monday, October 11, the price of a barrel of Brent oil rose by 2% to $ 84.01. She reached this mark for the first time since October 2018. US WTI oil rose by $ 1.62 to $ 81.3 – the highest price since 2014, according to Reuters. It is noted that Brent […]
The agreement on a single corporate tax rate of at least 15 percent was signed by 136 states, which account for more than 90 percent of world GDP. The agreement is aimed at combating tax evasion by international corporations. The initiative was also signed by countries that were initially opposed to tax reform, such as […]
The savings of Ukrainian citizens outside the banking system are estimated at $ 30-35 billion. This estimate was given by the chairman of the National Bank Kyrylo Shevchenko during the Kyiv Economic Forum. There are different estimates of the “gray” economy. We in the National Bank believe that this is up to 30% of GDP. […]
During the week, the National Bank of Ukraine bought $ 228 million on the interbank foreign exchange market. At the same time, the central bank did not sell currency on the interbank market. So the NBU continued to buy currency on the interbank market, the bank increased it compared to last week ($ 15 million) […]
The new Tesla factory in Berlin may release the first electric cars next month. CEO Elon Musk stated this. Speaking at the plant, Musk said he hoped to get the green light to begin production in the coming weeks. The last consultation on public concern about the plant ends on October 14, after which the […]
Shares of Starbucks recovered from losses of February and March due to the pandemic and rose by 19.7% over the past 6 months. But shares fell again after the publication of the quarterly report, which ended September 30. Starbucks revenue and profit for the 4th quarter of fiscal 2020 showed a strong jump in growth […]
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Russia’s pipelayer Fortuna has resumed work on laying the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline in Germany’s exclusive economic zone, DPA reported, citing the press service of the Nord Stream 2 AG project operator on May 23. “Fortune is currently operating in German waters in accordance with existing permits and with statements made by the authorities,” the […]
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The taxi service of the international Chinese company DiDi Chuxing intends to conduct the initial public offering (IPO) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. As reported by Reuters on Tuesday, citing sources, this may happen in the first half of 2021. By the time of the IPO, the estimated value of DiDi will be more […]
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The container operator of the Ukrzaliznytsia the Liski Company, plans to create Portside grain terminal with a capacity of about 15 thousands TEU in a year. It is reported by the UkrAgroConsult. According to the report, the new facility will be located in the territory of the structure Odessa-Liski, which serves the container flows of […]
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US Employees of Facebook were allowed to work in a remote location by June next year. Most Facebook personnel were switched to remote mode in late March, and in April, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that it is the last among of those to resume working in the office at the end of a pandemic of […]
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The acquisition of the Creative factory by the company Kernel Group had a corruption component. Such an opinion was expressed by the expert of the Concorde Capital investment company, Alexander Paraschiy, according to the AgroPolit.com. He argues that the deal is profitable for Kernel, but would be a bane for the largest state-owned banks and […]
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According to Interfax-Ukraine, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) intends to begin the cooperation with Ukrainian State Enterprise of Posts “Ukrposhta” in the corporative enterprise management. It will also consider the enterprise investment possibility in the future. Sevki Akuner, the director of EBRD in Ukraine said: We have been working with USEP Ukrposhta […]
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Shares of Zoom Video Communications, the developer of the cloud platform for video conferencing – soared by 25.5% after the close of the main trading session on August 31, to $ 408. Investors’ attention was drawn to the reports of companies for the second quarter of the current financial year (ended July 31). In three […]
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Technical failure occurred on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, due to which the trading was suspended. This is stated in the statement by Japan Exchange Group, which owns the exchange. “Trading of all shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has been suspended due to the failures related to the delivery of the market information, ” – […]
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The British medical regulator is considering restricting the use of the coronavirus vaccine by the British-Swedish company AstraZeneca and Oxford University among young people due to concerns about the formation of blood clots. This was reported on Tuesday by The Times. A similar decision could be made, according to her, the Agency for the Control […]
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Harley-Davidson Inc., the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the United States, has announced its plans to cut about 700 jobs worldwide as part of a global business reorganization caused by the economic crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to the company press release, the restructuring plan expected to reduce its global staff by about 13% […]
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Major Japanese manufacturer Panasonic announced that it would invest $ 1.6 billion in the construction of the Tesla Gigafactory plant. As the company reported on its website, such an investment is motivated by the fact that Panasonic shares the aims and objectives of the American automaker, and therefore wants to support its activities. Analysts argue […]
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Last week, on Wednesday, November 25, 2015 Andre Esteves, the founder of the Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual, was taken into custody in the framework of an extensive investigation of bribery. It is known that large Brazilian construction firms are involved into the scandal and another defendant is a state oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA. […]
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According to Interfax-Ukraine, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has won the tender for carrying out USEP Ukrposhta financial and economic activities audit for 2015-2016 in the amount of 5, 79 million UAH. The press-service of USEP Ukrposhta admitted: “Within corporatisation process in USEP Ukrposhta, it is necessary evaluating a property and own property rights for forming of the […]
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Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) in the period of the interim administration and liquidation of insolvent Delta Bank recognized as negligible 175 deals worth 22.292 billion UAH. According to the DIF, in particular, to 11 business transactions, including the sale of the assets with the discount, or related parties, transaction of 12.2 million UAH were recognized […]
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