Capitalization of the Kazakhstan Exchange market of corporate bonds declined by $2.5 mln down to $132.78 mln in October

/IRBIS, Dec.5, 00/ - On November 30 capitalization of the Exchange market for corporate bonds, calculated at face values of the securities (total face values of all bonds entered into the KASE trade lists), equaled $132.78 mln. or KZT19,140.2 mln at current exchange rate and decreased by $2.5 mln within a month. Decrease in capitalization was due to removing the discounted bonds of KEGOC OJSC (Astana) from official list of the KASE securities under category "A" from November 1 due to the end of their circulation term. Capitalization of the corporate bonds of Kazakhstan based on their best bids, that put out regularly by their market-makers in the trade system of the Exchange, was fixed at $129.7 mln or KZT18,698.5 mln at current rate of the Exchange as of November 30. As of late November, 10 corporate bonds of 10 issuers were in trade lists of the KASE. Nine of them were in official list of the securities under category "A". The trades are open in bonds of ten issuers.