OREANDA-NEWS. June 14, 2011. NBU wants to expand lending capacity. The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) asked the Verkhovna Rada to remove the 3% limitation on its reserve ratio for foreign currency. The NBU\"s memorandum noted that this limitation restriction leads to a reduced level of lending in foreign currency, making foreign currency lending more a more attractive to banks, thus increasing dollarization of the economy. In addition, the NBU claimes that this limits the NBU\"s ability to supervise risk-management in the banking system.

Equity market. Despite investors\" attempts to reverse the downward trend of the Ukrainian Exchange Index, the indictor continued to drop over the week lasting from June 6 to June 10. The index finished at 2382.42 points, which is 0.82% lower than the prior week. As opposed to previous weeks, the trading volume on the spot market increased by 15.7% to UAH 811 mln (USD 101.7 mln). Meanwhile, the trading volume on the futures market amounted to UAH 506.9 mln (USD 63.6 mln), which is 18.8% more than the previous week. The two main reasons for this increase were a number of news strories pertaining to certain issuers that surfaced over the course of the week as well as external market conditions.

Motor Sich (MSICH; BUY) was the week\"s top performing stock (+5.63%), in addition to being the most actively traded at UAH 133.5 mln (USD 16.7 mln). Rumors of Alchevsk Iron and Steel\"s (ALMK; SELL) purchase by Metinvest led its stock to rise to its highest value since mid-March. Share price receded once Metinvest denied these claims, but the stock nevertheless gained 1.5% on the week, with a trading volume of UAH 92.4 mln (USD 11.6 mln).

For the second week in a row, Stirol (STIR; BUY) was one of the worst performing stocks – losing 6.22% of share value. Stocks in the power generating and banking sectors were particularly hard hit, with Dniproenergo (DNEN), Donbasenergo (DOEN; BUY), Raiffeisen Bank Aval (BAVL; HOLD), and Ukrsotsbank (USCB; BUY) dropping 4.79%, 4.21%, 4.03%, and 3.56% in share value respectively.