Bloomberg,  Jan 13, 2011 2:35 PM GMT+0200, by Kateryna Choursina and Daryna Krasnolutska - Ukraine will raise household power prices...

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The Ukrainian hryvnia, the third-worst performer against the dollar last year, will help the economy rebound by bolstering exports, said Andrey Bespyatov, the head of research at Dragon Capital, Ukraine’s biggest brokerage.

The Ukrainian economy has been coping well under the pressures of domestic political uncertainty and global financial turmoil. In 2007, GDP grew by 7.3%, while retail sales increased by 28.3%. And Ukrsibbank has continued along its own growth curve. Majority owned by BNP Paribas since April 2006, the bank is the third largest in Ukraine in terms of assets, shareholders equity and loan portfolio. Although PrivatBank and Raiffeisen Bank Aval are bigger, they cannot match Ukrsibbank\'s dynamism.

THE INVESTMENT-banking battle has moved east as banks seek to capture liquidity and market share in the emerging economies of Europe, the Middle East and India.

Ukraine\'s largest investment banking, securities brokerage, asset management and private equity firm -- Dragon Capital -- announced last Wednesday that it completed the sale of a \"small minority stake\" to Goldman Sachs.

Goldman Sachs has beaten competition from several western financial institutions to buy a stake in Ukraine’s largest investment bank.

Parliament elected the fiery Yulia Tymoshenko prime minister Tuesday by the narrowest possible margin, in a striking political comeback likely to strengthen Ukraine\'s ties to the West and aggravate tensions with Russia.