Ukrainian stocks, Eurobonds cautiously react to results of Florida talks

MOSCOW. Dec 30 (Interfax) - The WIG-Ukraine index of Ukrainian stocks on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) gained 1.33% as of 4:15 p.m. Kiev time on Monday following the latest round of talks on ending the conflict in Ukraine held in Mar-a-Largo in Palm Beach, Florida, with the WSE General Index also growing 0.11%, Ukrainian media reported citing WSE data.

Shares of Ukrainian agricultural holdings Agroton and KSG-Agro gained 4.96% and 5.69%, respectively, as of 4:26 p.m. Kiev time, Milkiland shares grew 4.56%, shares of Astarta, Ukraine's largest sugar producer, grew 0.46%, and IMC shares gained 0.39%.

Coal Energy shares grew 2.69%, while shares of Kernel, Ukraine's largest sunflower oil producer, fell 0.72%.

On the London Stock Exchange (LSE), where retail investors have less influence than on the WSE, shares of Ukrainian mining company Ferrexpo gained 3.26%, while the price of shares of MHP, Ukraine's largest chicken producer, remained unchanged.

Ukrainian Eurobonds also grew on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Monday. Ukraine's shortest-term bonds maturing in 2029 gained 5.47% to 79.05 of their nominal value, bonds maturing in 2034 grew 1.89% to 61.48% of nominal value, bonds maturing in 2035 gained 2.12% to 60.27% of nominal value, and bonds maturing in 2036 gained 1.25% to 59.24% of nominal value.