Business news from Ukraine

UKRAINIAN WRESTLER WINS GOLD AT OLYMPICS

Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler Zhan Beleniuk won the final bout in the up to 87 kg weight category at the Olympic Games in Tokyo and added the first gold medal to the Ukrainian team.
According to the official website of the Olympics, Beleniuk defeated Hungarian Viktor Lorincz with a score of 5:1.
This is the ninth medal in the overall standings of the Ukrainian team. The national team also has two silver medals and six bronze medals.

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UKRAINE TO RETAIN LICENSING OF ANTHRACITE EXPORTS, ZERO QUOTAS FOR SILVER, GOLD EXPORT

Ukraine has retained the zero quotas for exports of unprocessed gold and silver (apart from banking metals) and scrap precious metals and extended the licensing of exports of anthracite for 2020.
The Cabinet of Ministers approved resolution No. 1109 on December 24 and posted it on its website on December 27.
In addition, according to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, in 2020, exports and imports of the respective substances and goods will be licensed as previously.

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SHARE OF DOLLARS IN UKRAINE’S FOREX RESERVES TOTALS 71%, 12% – EUROS, 4% – YUANS, 3% – POUNDS, 6% – GOLD

The share of U.S. dollars of Ukraine’s forex reserves by late 2017 was 71%, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has said in an annual report for 2017.
“The National Bank, like most central banks in the world, preferred investing reserves in U.S. Treasury bonds. The foreign exchange structure of forex reserves by the end of the year was as follows: 71% – U.S. dollar, 12% – euros, 4% – Chinese yuan, 3% – British pound sterling, 6% – gold, 4% – other currencies,” the NBU said in the report.
In addition, according to the NBU report, in the structure of forex reserves in terms of tools 78% accounted for bonds, 16% – for funds in banks, and 6% – for gold, including 53% of bonds in the structure of reserves were public, 40% – quasi-public, 7% – of issuers of the financial sector.

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