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11.02.2008
The Cabinet of Ministers has formalized the reduction of the rate of the deduction into the State Pension Fund from operations involving purchase and sale of hard currency from 1% to 0.5%, as stipulated in the state budget for 2008.
The Cabinet of Ministers formalized the reduction by adopting its resolution No. 39 on January 6.
According to this resolution, the rate of the deduction into the State Pension Fund from non-cash operations involving purchase and sale of hard currency for hryvnia is 0.5% from January 1, 2008.
The parliament reduced the rate of the Pension Fund deduction from operations involving purchase and sale of hard currency from 1.3% to 1% in 2007.
 08.02.2008
NEW YORK - Wall Street finished moderately higher in fitful trading Thursday as investors, still nervous about the economy, decided to buy back into a stock market pummeled by three straight days of losses.
With the market having largely priced in the possibility of a recession, many believe there are plenty of valuable stocks at cheap prices. Before Thursday, the Dow Jones industrial average had fallen this week by 543 points, or 4.26 percent, giving up all of last week's sharp gains.
Though the market ended up rising Thursday, trading was extremely fickle due to a batch of gloomy data that included declining January sales at major retailers, a drop in December sales of pending homes, and a disappointing outlook from Internet networking supplier Cisco Systems Inc. The major indexes seesawed throughout the day.
"We're kind of trying to create a silk purse out of a sow's ear here," said Hugh Johnson, chief investment officer of Johnson Illington Advisors. "The earnings are lousy, the economic numbers are lousy."
 08.02.2008
Microsoft’s $40 billion bid would be hard to refuse, but there are escape routes.
Since Microsoft bid more than $40 billion for Yahoo last week, the Internet pioneer’s future has been very much up in the air. Many observers seem to think Microsoft will win its prize, given the truckload of cash it’s offering — but others aren’t so sure. In fact, there are ways that Yahoo might get away.
If Yahoo (YHOO) co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang is to wiggle his company free of Microsoft’s (MSFT) clutches, he’ll have to:
a) Find a white knight willing to top Microsoft’s bid.
b) Outsource search to Google; or
c) Break off bits of the company to boost the stock price.
None of these options looks like a strong possibility. Here’s why.
For those who like the idea of Yahoo controlling its destiny, there’s a certain appeal to the white knight scenario — at least Yahoo gets to pick its suitor rather than submit to a shotgun wedding. But the problem here is that Yahoo’s carries an expensive dowry, and the companies that can afford it probably won’t pay.
08.02.2008
National Association of Realtors pulls back on outlook and forecasts second consecutive annual decline in prices and sales
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- In a fresh sign that the nation's housing crisis will worsen, home prices are likely to decline in 2008 for the second straight year, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday.
The Realtors, in its monthly economic and sales outlook, is forecasting a 1.2% drop in prices of existing homes sold this year.
Only a month ago, the association was forecasting that prices would be flat in 2008 and that the home market would rebound in the last half of the year.
The group was forecasting that the first quarter would see a record 5.3% drop from year ago levels. Now it's expecting the current quarter to see even a larger decline in prices of 6.1%.
Last year, when the median price slipped 1.4 from 2006 levels, was the first on record that the Realtors recorded full-year decline in existing home prices.
The group is also forecasting a 4.8% decline in the number of existing homes sold this year. A month ago it was still forecasting a 0.9% pickup in the sales. Existing home sales plunged 12.8% in 2007, according to the group's figures.
08.02.2008
Russia’s Gazprom gas monopoly may stop delivering natural gas of Russian origin to Ukraine on February 11.
Serhii Kupriyanov, a spokesman for the board chairman of Gazprom, announced this on Russia’s Vesti television channel.
Kupriyanov said that Ukraine has been receiving not only central Asian gas, but also Russian gas, since the start of 2008.
«Meanwhile, the Ukrainian side cannot explain clearly who is consuming this gas, when and who will pay for deliveries of Russian gas. That not withstanding, unregistered consumption of Russian gas is continuing and, as a result, the debt is increasing,» he said.
According to him, the price at which Russian gas has been delivered to Ukraine since the start of this year is USD 314.7 per 1,000 cubic meters
«At this moment, 1.5 billion cubic meters of Russian gas has sunk into Ukraine. Thus, the debt for the Russian gas that has been delivered since January 1 is nearing USD 500 million, and the total overdue debt on gas deliveries to Ukraine has already reached USD 1.5 billion,» Kupriyanov said.
19.12.2007
Ukrtranshaz, a subsidiary of Naftohaz Ukrainy national joint-stock company, has resumed transit of natural gas to European countries via the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod cross-country pipeline.
Ukrainian News learned this from the company press service.
The section hit by explosion on December 6 got connected to the cross-country pipeline at 10 p.m. on December 17 and transit is now resumed.
At the moment, Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod is operating in a routine mode.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, an explosion followed by a fire damaged the segment of the Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod gas pipeline between Compressor Stations No. 36 and No. 37 about 2 kilometers away from the village of Tiahun (Illintsi district of Vinnytsia region) at about 19:10 on December 6.
17.12.2007
Enerhoatom, Ukraine's national nuclear power generating company, and Rosenergoatom, Russia's largest power generating company, have signed a cooperation agreement for 2008.
Ukrainian News learned this from the press service of Enerhoatom.
The document was signed at the 16th meeting of the Coordination Committee in St. Petersburg on December 12-13.
The program foresees almost all trends of joint work of two exploiting organizations, including in the safety of NPPs, scientific technical (engineering) support, licensing, repair, accident-prevention planning, cooperation between technical emergency centers.
Specialists of the two companies discussed in details the question of exchange of experience in exploitation, including reports on events at NPPs.
10.12.2007
The European Union and Ukraine officially opened this week negotiations on a Common Aviation Area agreement in Kiev. The aim is to further deepen aviation relations with Ukraine following the signature of similar agreements with the Western Balkan countries and Morocco.
Vice-President Jacques Barrot, in charge of transport, said: “By sharing the benefits of the single aviation market, Ukraine and the EU will improve their relationship and create huge benefits for aviation industries and consumers. With such an agreement, we will ensure high levels of safety and security and facilitate trade and social links with a close neighbour.”
06.12.2007
Ukraine is studying whether it will be appropriate to import coal from Australia.
Acting Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych announced this at a Cabinet of Ministers meeting.
"Coal will most likely have to be delivered from Australia because it has a more or less acceptable price there," Yanukovych said.
According to him, Ukraine presently mines about 80 million tons of coal per year whereas at least 100 million is presently needed to maintain the country's energy balance and meet industrial requirements.
He said that the nearest exporters of coal to Ukraine are Russia and Poland.
05.12.2007
Ukraine and Russia have agreed that Ukraine will buy natural gas at the price of USD 179.5 per 1,000 cubic meters at the Russian-Ukrainian border in 2008.
Russia’s Gazprom gas company announced this in a statement, a text of which Ukrainian News obtained.
The charge for transiting natural gas through Russian and Ukrainian territories will be USD 1.7 per 1,000 cubic meters per 100 kilometers if pipeline in 2008, up from USD 1.6 in 2007.
Gas imported from Central Asia will total about 55 billion cubic meters or about 73% of Ukraine total gas balance.
Most of the imported gas will come from Turkmenistan (about 40 billion cubic meters) while the remainder will come from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Natural gas has been delivered to Ukraine since 2006 in accordance with the «Agreement on Regulating Relations in the Gas Sphere» that was signed on January 4, 2006.
This agreement strictly ties the price at which natural gas is delivered to Ukraine to the price at which companies affiliated with Gazprom buy it.
In November, Gazprom signed an agreement under which it will buy natural gas from Turkmenistan at USD 130 per 1,000 cubic meters in the first half of 2008 and USD 150 per 1,000 cubic meters in the second half of the year.
The price of the natural gas will be determined by market conditions from January 1, 2009.
Gazprom is also continuing talks with Uzbekistan, which has stated its intention to raise the price of its natural gas in 2008, as well as with Kazakhstan, which is planning to raise the charge for transit of natural gas through its territory.
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