Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from November 2 through 8

/IRBIS, Nov 08, 00/ - Following is the table that allows to compare investment attractiveness of the financial instruments, which were regularly traded or quoted at Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) from November 2 to 8. In parentheses - figures of previous period. Instruments are given in descending order, based on their attractiveness. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Financial Volume of deals, Volume of deals, instrument Currency Yield, % APR mln KZT mln USD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RENTb USD 15.04 (14.96) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ALKSb USD 14.78 (14.85) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KOMBb USD 13.50 (13.50) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) ATFBb USD 10.95 (10.95) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZOLb USD 10.77 (11.06) 60.9 (4.3) 425.9 (30.0) HSBKb USD 10.50 (10.50) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) KZTOb USD 10.46 (10.47) 13.9 ( 0) 97.4 ( 0) MEKAVM USD *10.20 (7.79) 143.2 (650.7) 1,002.0 (4,562.7) TMJLb USD 10.00 (10.00) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-4 USD 9.56 (9.01) 1,274.2 (256.4) 8,913.9 (1,797.8) KKGBb USD 9.55 (9.83) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) Euronotes-3 USD 9.14 (9.15) 1,860.0 (810.6) 13,012.7 (5,683.5) Euronotes-2 USD 9.04 (9.60) 521.3 (1,421.9) 3,647.2 (9,970.2) TEBNb USD 8.46 (8.52) 0 ( 0) 0 ( 0) MEKKAM, notes KZT *9.06 (7.66) 1,470.0 (1,865.5) 10,283.8 (13,080.1) Repo GS KZT *3.90 (3.48) 737.7 (2,300.8) 5,161.0 (16,132.3) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes: Yields for KZOLb and KZTOb calculated as deals average. Yields of other corporate bonds are calculated as average of offer quotations. In this week tenge devaluation rate is estimated at weighted average rate of the main session of KASE by trend of 29.29% APR. The yields, shown here, do not incorporate overhead expenses that are inevitable when conducting operations and fixing profits (commission and tax collections, membership fees etc). Marked by a star are the instruments with less than a year circulation term. Weighted average effective yields are given for them.