Daily Insight-NBU on 2010 BoP, current FX market; Bond auction preview; KGOKOR; MHP; sunflower seeds exports

The central bank\'s monthly report, with its preliminary assessment of the balance of payments for December and the entire year 2010, contained the following findings. Firstly, Ukraine\'s economy, which grew at an estimated growth rate of 4.3% YoY in real terms, provided a faster pace of growth for merchandise imports than for exports growth, with the former increasing by 35.4%, to US$60.5bn in the full-year 2010 from the previous year, and the latter rising by 29.0%, to US$52.1bn. This resulted in a widening of the current account deficit, to US$2.6bn, or 1.9% of GDP, according to the NBU\'s calculations. The capital and financial account saw an inflow of capital of US$7.7bn, of which U$5.7bn was in foreign direct investments (FDI).