These firms are generally also the ones with the poorest earnings prospects and the most severe problems of excess capacity, and hence they are likely the firms with the least promising opportunities for investment. The financial strength of the banking sector Finally, a brief word about banks.
Other factors that made the hryvnia stronger: favorable global prices for Ukrainian exports, in particular, agricultural and metals exports, and stable exports earnings the approaching deadline for annual tax payments to the state budget, which encouraged businesses to sell foreign currency more actively weak growth in imports of goods, and low volumes of repatriated foreign currency dividends net sales of foreign currency by households.