Industrial product prices in Ukraine in April 2005 rose by 2.5% compared to 1.9% in March, 2.7% in February and 0.2% in January, and overall since the beginning of the year they increased by 7.5%. This is reported by the State Statistics Committee, according to "Podrobnosti".

At the Volyn Regional Branch of CB "PrivatBank," with the onset of May, the first mortgage center in the Western region began operations.

JSC "Lutsk Automobile Plant" (LuAZ) will issue bonds worth UAH 130 million, according to the official publication of the State Commission for Securities and Stock Market.

The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has granted permission to LLC "Trading House "Kontynium-Halychyna", which operates in the wholesale and retail trade market of light petroleum products through its branches in Dnipropetrovsk, Zakarpattia, Kyiv, Lviv, Khmelnytskyi and Cherkasy oblasts, to lease the integral…

The Antimonopoly Committee has allowed 20 companies to create a voluntary association of enterprises and organizations - the "Bohdana" corporation (Kyiv). This was reported by the AMCU press service.

\nThe fall in the dollar exchange rate leads to another increase in housing prices - roughly by 20% by the end of the year. \nCurrently almost no one is buying or selling anything. Only lease agreements for commercial space are being concluded. The market is waiting. And sellers are recalculating the cost of housing.

The State Property Fund of Ukraine intends to sell a 7.3% stake in VAT "Hotel Complex "Rus", a 26.22% stake in VAT "Voltex" and a 17.46% stake in VAT "Rivne Airline "Universal-Avia", reports the press service of the First Stock Trading System.

The Lutsk Automobile Plant has received the international certificate of the ISO 9001:2000 quality management system. This document is a guarantee of the indisputable quality of the products manufactured at the enterprise (in the regional center of Volyn, only five enterprises have such a quality certificate).

Today, the Cabinet of Ministers' resolution on setting maximum prices for meat comes into force. Pork and beef producers say they are not ready to cut prices by essentially half and are rushing to sell their goods before the government resolution takes effect, reports Deutsche Welle.

On April 19, a meeting was held between the head of the Volyn Regional State Administration, Volodymyr Bondar, and representatives of the German economy, Karin Rau, and the company "Kromberg & Schubert" regarding the construction on the territory of the Boratyn village council of Lutsk district of a plant for the…