On the basis of research of markets of the goods, that are made by the basic sectors of economy (energy, metallurgical and agroindustrial sectors), proposals are worked out about positive changes in the development of sectors with the purpose of expansion of the markets.

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The authors analyze various organizational and economic factors of the creation of finan-cial-industrial groups (FIG) in Ukraine’s mining-and-metallurgical complex (MMC). They consider the main organizational and economic processes and trends of the world metal market. The article reveals external and internal factors impeding the FIG’s development and proposes various guidelines for sustainable development of Ukraine’s MMC

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The authors consider the main periods of formation and development of the companies in Ukraine’s mining-and-metallurgy complex, describe their activities during the financial and economic crises and reveal the factors, which negatively affected their development. The article provides analysis of the guidelines of the state support given to the metallurgy companies and proposes directions of the interaction between the government and this country’s mining-and-metallurgy complex in the context of its further development

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It is argued that economic development of Ukraine’s ferrous metallurgy sector decisive-ly depends on the conjuncture, that is, on the condition and development dynamics of the world metal market, prospects of international cooperation and processes of international integration. That is explained by the fact that Ukraine belongs to the top ten world steel producers and, in 2012, occupied the ten’s place among them, while, as not long ago as in 2011, it occupied the seventh place. Such a loss of leading positions is explained by the considerable use of outdated technologies, low share of the most important progressive metal items in the sector’s produce, high prime cost, dependence on imported energy carri-ers,(first of all, natural gas),world conjuncture and limited possibilities of the sale of metal produce. At the same time, the new industrial countries, such as China, India, South Korea etc., who are practically the main competitors Ukraine’s metal producers on the world re-gional metal markets, with mainly technologically new productive capacities, and progres-sive production structure, have been gradually expanding their output creating a powerful competition to Ukrainian producers. It is possible to resume their leading positions and ex-pand the existing out lets for metal produce by creating favorable conditions for: moderni-zation of the main productive capacities in order to raise energy efficiency and competi-tiveness of the ferrous metallurgy sector; development of the domestic metal market; pro-duction diversification and optimization of its structure as a result of increased number of new metal items, in particular, steel produced by electrical melting, special steels and alloys, increased output of finished steel and tubes with corrosion-resistant coating, calibrated finished steel, curved profiles etc.

Keywords:conjuncture, integration, domestic metal market, regional metal markets, competition, competitors, technological structure of steel production, modernization of main productive capacities, competitiveness, production diversification