With an IMF team arriving in Kyiv this week,

With an IMF team arriving in Kyiv this week, Fitch has upgraded its rating of Ukraine’s foreign- and local-currency debt to B from B-, with a positive outlook. The New York-based rating agency praised the new cabinet of “technocratic, pro-Western, and reform-minded ministers.” “Fitch expects further improvements in creditworthiness,” the agency says, citing a series of macroeconomic indicators, many inherited from the Poroshenko government.