“Ukrzaliznytsia” opens the sale on the flight №131/132 Lviv-Dnipro, which after a six-month break will provide rail service to northern Polesia and Volyn with Lviv, Kiev and Dnipro simultaneously.
As noted in a message on the telegram channel UZ on Friday, the train will depart from December 10 every other day on even-numbered days from Lviv at 18:08 through Chervonograd, Kovel, Sarny, Zhytomyr and other stations, arriving in the capital at 09:28. Arrival to Dnipro via Znamenka and Alexandria at 18:25.
Back every other day on even numbers from December 12 the trip will depart at 07:02, providing the residents of Dnipro with a comfortable morning connection to Kyiv. After the capital at 16:00 the train leaves for Zhytomyr and further, with arrival in Lviv at 06:55.
Ukraine since the beginning of 2022/2023 marketing year (July-June) and until December 2, exported 18.08 million tons of cereals, including 9.66 million tons of corn (53.4% of total supplies), 6.87 million tons of wheat (38%) and 1.48 million tons of barley (8.1%).
As reported on the website of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food on Friday, the rate of grain exports since the beginning of this MY is 29.84% lower than the same period last MY (from July 1, 2020 to December 2, 2021, 25.77 million tons were delivered abroad), the lag was the lowest since the beginning of MY. For comparison, the previous maximum rate of exports was reached on November 14, when the lag from last year’s values was the lowest in the last few months at 30.6%.
According to the Ministry, from the beginning of 2022/2023 MY to December 2, 2022, Ukraine exported 6.87 million tons of wheat (2.12 times less compared to the same period last year), 1.48 million tons of barley (3.35 times less), 12 thousand tons of rye (6.9 times less). At the same time, exports of corn exceeded last year’s volume: 9.66 million tons were exported, which is 1.62 times more than on the same date of 2021/2022 MY, while export of flour amounted to 53.2 thousand tons (+2.1%).
It is specified that on the first day of December Ukraine exported 0.2 million tons of grain crops, including 97 thousand tons of wheat, 89 thousand tons of corn, 13 thousand tons of barley, 0.1 tons of rye and 1 thousand tons of flour.
As the Ministry data show, during the last reporting period November 28 – December 2, an average of 222.5 thousand tons of cereals per day were supplied to the foreign markets, whereas during the preceding period November 18-28 – 124 thousand tons per day, November 14-18 – 212.5 thousand tons per day, November 7-14 – 118.6 thousand tons per day and November 2-7 – 178 thousand tons per day. Thus, the average daily rate of exports during the reporting period of November 18-28 has increased by 1.8 times compared to the previous period of November 18-28.
As reported, Ukraine exported 48.51 million tons of grains and leguminous crops in 2021/2022 MY, which is 8.4% higher than in the previous MY, despite the full-scale invasion of Russia and the difficulties with the export of agricultural products due to the blockade of Ukrainian seaports. 18.74 million tons of wheat (12.6% more than in 2020/2021MY), 23.54 million tons of corn (+1.9%), 5.75 million tons of barley (+35.9%), 70.9 thousand tons of flour (-44.1%) were supplied to foreign markets.
In 2020/2021 MY, the country exported 44.72 million tons of cereals and legumes: 16.64 million tons of wheat, 23.08 million tons of corn, 4.23 million tons of barley, 126.9 thousand tons of flour and 18.4 thousand tons of rye.
In 2019/2020, Ukraine exported 56.72 million tons of grain and leguminous crops.
In case of prolonged and unpredictable power outages, construction materials producers will be forced to stop their enterprises completely, the president of the All-Ukrainian Union of Construction Materials Manufacturers Konstantin Salii said.
“If there is no light for more than 12 hours a day, and connections will be out of the predicted schedules, the enterprises will stop: no one will dare to lose expensive equipment. Commodity concrete 3-4 hours in tanks will not survive – this is a terrible loss, “- said Salii in a comment to the agency” Interfax-Ukraine “.
According to him, there are practically no alternative sources of energy for enterprises of building materials production with energy capacity over 1 MW.
According to the president of UBC, the decline of production and consumption of building materials in Ukraine, which began with the start of a full-scale war, will continue until the start of the construction season in 2023. At the same time, he noted that despite the sufficient supply of raw materials from producers, financial resources are almost exhausted.
“Financial resources are almost exhausted – a wave of plant closings and sales for debt could begin in the spring of 2023,” Salii pointed out.
Western European stock indexes are mainly down during the trading on Friday, following the Asian stock markets.
Investors are waiting for the report on the U.S. labor market for November, which will be released at 15:30 ksec.
The consensus forecast of experts polled by Trading Economics expects the number of jobs in the U.S. economy to increase by 200,000 in November and the unemployment rate to remain at 3.7%.
The November labor market report is important to the Federal Reserve (Fed), which will hold its next meeting on December 13-14. Judging by futures quotations for the prime rate, the market expects the Fed to raise it by 50 bps. – to 4.25-4.5% per annum.
The composite index of the region’s biggest companies Stoxx Europe 600 had shed 0.25 percent to 442.84 points by 11.16 a.m. Ksk.
Germany’s DAX is up 0.16% while Britain’s FTSE 100 is down 0.32%, France’s CAC 40 is down 0.27%, Italy’s FTSE MIB is up 0.22% and Spain’s IBEX 35 is also down 0.22%.
Traders are analyzing the fresh batch of statistics and corporate news.
The total volume of German exports in October, adjusted for calendar and seasonal factors, decreased by 0.6% compared to the previous month to 133.5 billion euros, according to the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (Destatis).
Imports fell 3.7% to 126.6 billion euros. Germany’s foreign trade surplus was €6.9 billion the month before last, down from a revised €2.8 billion in September.
Meanwhile, industrial output in France fell 2.6% month-on-month in October, following a 0.9% decline in September. Economists polled by FactSet had expected a 0.2% decline.
Shares of British retailer ASOS PLC are down 0.3%. Kathy Mecklenberg, the company’s interim CFO, will resign to become the CFO of Softcat PLC, an IT company.
Volvo Car AB papers are down 0.25%. The Swedish car maker increased car sales by 12% year-on-year in November on the back of sustained strong demand.
The share price of Wizz Air Holdings PLC is up 1.9%. The European low-cost carrier carried 3.7 million passengers in November compared to 2.2 million in the same month a year earlier, the company said in a statement. Thus, the index increased by 70%.
The leaders in the decline among the components of the index Stoxx Europe 600 are shares of Swedish investment Kinnevik AB, which fell by 5.3%.
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Equity markets in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC) are down in trading on Friday.
Investors are waiting for more clarity from Chinese authorities after Beijing signaled it was easing a series of tough restrictions against the spread of the coronavirus infection, CNBC writes.
Several major Chinese cities have announced easing of anti-covirus measures. Guangzhou, Shijiazhuang and Chengdu relaxed requirements for the regularity of tests for COVID-19 and the movement of citizens, Bloomberg reported. Markets and public transportation began operating in some areas. In Beijing, sick people are allowed to stay at home instead of being isolated in special centers.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 was down 1.7 percent by 7:11 a.m. Ksk. At a certain point in trading the indicator fell to a three-week low, Trading Economics said.
Shares of automaker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (-5.6%), bearings and cardan shafts maker NTN Corp. (-5.3%) and electric cables maker Fujikura Ltd. (-4.3%) act as leaders in the decline among index components.
Moreover, shares of such big companies as SoftBank Group (-0.3%), Sony Group Corp. (-1.3%), Fast Retailing Co. (-2.3%) also declined.
China’s Shanghai Composite had lost 0.3% by 7:16 a.m. Ksk, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng had lost 0.6%.
Investors fix profits after a confident rally associated with the softening of the PRC’s position on the anti-covids restrictions, writes Trading Economics.
The most significant decline in quotations on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is shown by shares of developers Country Garden Holdings Co. Ltd. (-6.4%), Country Garden Services Holdings Co. Ltd. (-5.6%) and Longfor Group Holdings Ltd. (-5.4%).
South Korea’s Kospi index was down 1.4 percent by 7:14 a.m. kk.
One of the world’s biggest chip and electronics maker Samsung Electronics Co. was down 2.9 percent, while car maker Hyundai Motor slid 1.5 percent.
Consumer prices in South Korea rose 5 percent year on year in November, the slowest pace since April 2022, after rising 5.7 percent a month earlier, data from the country’s statistics agency showed. Analysts on average had expected inflation in the country to be 5.1 percent, Trading Economics wrote.
On a monthly basis, consumer prices in November fell by 0.1% after rising 0.3% a month earlier.
The Australian S&P/ASX 200 index lost 0.7% in trading on Friday.
Retail sales in Australia fell 0.2% month-on-month in October, compared with an increase of 0.6% a month earlier, official statistics showed.
This is the first decline in the current year. It is due to the fact that price pressures and rising interest rates have begun to have a negative impact on consumer spending, according to Trading Economics.
Share prices of the world’s largest mining companies BHP and Rio Tinto fell by 1.6% and 1.1%, respectively.
