In the first six months of 2021, Ukraine’s trade increased by a quarter compared to the same period last year, according to the State Statistics Service.
Thus, exports of goods and services increased by 25.5% and amounted to 34.870 billion dollars, and imports increased by 27.6% to 34.456 billion dollars.
Thus, the positive balance of Ukraine’s foreign trade balance amounted to 413.6 million dollars. Although the first quarter recorded a negative balance of $ 1.049 billion.
The Ministry of Economy notes an increase of 45% in the first half of the year in the European Union.
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 […]
In the National Council of Ukraine on January 5, 2017 it was a briefing, the participants of which were the chairmen of the regulatory body and in result of which special commissioners of tv chanel got the right to broadcast, according to the source Media Detector. According to Uliana Feshchuk – a deputy head National […]
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The net loss of the American oil service company Halliburton Inc., attributable to the main company, in January-September amounted to 2.71 billion dollars against the profit of 522 million a year earlier, according to the company reports. Halliburton’s diluted loss per share in the reporting period was $ 3.08 against earnings of $ 0.6 a […]
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The famous American billionaire George Soros decided to invest to the development of Ukrainian IT-sphere. On the 18th of November 2015, he spoke about buying the part of the Horizon Capital in IT company Ciklum, and a certain amount of assets of Majgaard Holdings Ltd, which is owned by the head of Ciklum Torben Maygaarda. […]
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In the first half of the year, Ukrainian banks received UAH 30.077 billion in net profit (+ 26.4% compared to last year), according to the press service of the National Bank. Thus, banks’ revenues for the six months amounted to 124.134 billion hryvnias against 128.620 billion hryvnias a year earlier. The negative result from revaluation […]
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The Teva Ukraine company is the part of the Teva Corporation, the leading international pharmaceutical company specializing in the development, manufacture and marketing of generic and original medicines. The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine gave the permission for concerted action in the form of fulfillment of the conditions contained in Articles 9.6 and 9.12 of the […]
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On June 30, 2016 the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) plans to launch tender for the privatization of the 99, 6% shares of one of the country’s largest manufacturers of chemical products – Odessa Port Plant. “Carrying out of competition for the sale of stock of shares with an open offer of cost on […]
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The cryptocurrency Dogecoin, which contains an image of a dog shiba-inu, on Monday, February 8, reached a record high after billionaire Elon Musk, rapper Snoop Dogg and bassist Kiss Gene Simmons wrote about it on Twitter, according to Bloomberg. Thus, according to the CoinGecko platform, the value of the token rose to a peak of […]
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A grandiose financial scandal occurred in Toshiba. The company is accused in violating accounting and providing false information about their income. Because of the false information, as contained in the financial records of the company, the amount of income for the period 2008-2014 was understated for $ 1.9 billion. The regulatory authorities proposed the fine […]
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According to financial club, Oschasbank agreed with the credit debt of JSC Avangard-Agro (AG) restructuration. The owner of AG is Oleh Bahmatiuk. It was published in the holding quarterly status report in London exchange. According to documents, the amount of debt will be converted in Ukrainian gryvnia by the rate of 25,65 UAH per 1 […]
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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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The American pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb announced that it will buy biotech MyoKardia for $ 13.1 billion. Quotes of the MyoKardia at the previous trading increased by 59%. Bristol will pay $ 225 for each share of the MyoKardia, corresponding to 61% premium to the value of the company’s securities at the close of trading […]
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The video conferencing service Zoom has announced the creation of its venture fund Zoom Apps Fund, its volume will be $ 100 million, this is stated in a press release from the company. Startups in the fund’s portfolio will receive from $ 250,000 to $ 2.5 million. In this way, the company wants to motivate […]
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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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In Ukraine Boyden Global,one of the leaders in the market of personnel recruitment and provision of consulting services will begin work in the nearest future.Executive Search multi-national company. According to Aleksei Dolgikh,the head of the Ukrainian Boyden office: “the working group of specialists is already created and ready to work”. The former director of Pedersen&Partners […]
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The Walt Disney Company has decided to invest in the creation of successful new cable channel called Viceland, which involve “fresh” audience and raise ratings. A few weeks after the initial investment, Disney has doubled the amount of investment in a digital media company Vice Media; as a result of the total transaction amount is […]
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“Danone Ukraine” Company has launched a new production facility for the manufacture of milk food for babies of TM “Tema” at the state milk plant in Kremenchug. This was said to AgroPortal.ua by the press-service of the company. Investments amounted to 200 million UAH and the production capacity estimates at 700 tons per month, or […]
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