In January of 2003 volume of CS deals at KASE decreased 3.5 times to $102.7 m relative to December of 2002

/IRBIS, February 3, 03/ - In January of 2003 at the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) 224 deals were made in corporate securities in all sectors of the market for a total of KZT15.9 bn or $102.7 m at current rate of the Exchange effective on the day the deals were made. In comparison with December of 2002 volume of transactions decreased by $254.7 m (KZT39.7 bn) or 3.48 times (3.49 times in tenge). Such the significant decrease was caused mainly by sale at KASE of state block of shares (SBS) of Corporation Kazakhmys OJSC (Zheskazgan) in December. Relative to January of 2002 volume of transactions rose by $60.2 m (KZT9.5 bn) or 2.4 times (2.5 times in tenge). Structure of CS turnover at KASE in January is presented in the following form: 74.2% of the volume of all conducted deals ($76,179.6 th.) fell to the share of transactions of purchase and sale sector, to the share of automatic repo sector - 4.6% ($4,750.5 th.), to the share of other repo transactions - 19.0% ($19,473.1 th.), to the share of transactions in primary floatation sector - 2.3% ($2,319.3 th.). In SBS sector no deals were made. For comparison, the structure of stock exchange's CS sector in 2002 was characterized by the following indicators: 4.3% of transactions volume fell to the share of primary floatations; to the share of SBS - 26.1%; to purchase and sale sector - 48.2%; to the share of automatic repo sector - 0.5%; to the share of other repo transactions - 20.9%. Following are the tables showing the corporate securities market at the Exchange in January of 2003. Most tradable securities at the KASE in January of 2003 (all sectors of the market including repo) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume of Volume of Volume of Number deals, deals, deals in of Code Brief title of the issuer th. USD m, KZT securities deals ------ ----------------------------- --------- --------- ---------- ------ KZTOe1 KazTransOil CJSC 23,402.87 3,625.02 22,445,000 12 BTASe1 TuranAlem Finance B.V. 21,655.09 3,358.46 20,247,600 5 ORDBb1 Corporation Ordabasy OJSC 8,870.59 1,377.57 1,483,277 31 CCBN Bank CenterCredit OJSC 6,288.44 976.08 4,771,978 28 KKGBe3 KAZKOMMERTS INTERNATIONAL B.V. 4,963.28 770.62 4,500,000 6 HSBKb Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC 4,675.28 727.18 43,992 4 VTBNp VALUT-TRANZIT BANK OJSC 3,603.56 560.73 1,454,726 12 TXBNb1 TEXAKABANK OJSC 3,520.77 546.90 581,296 7 ALKSb2 Almaty Kus OJSC 2,865.37 445.09 32,214 6 ASFIb1 Astana-finance OJSC 2,485.63 387.14 25,000 1 KZIKb1 Kazakhstan Mortgage Company CJSC 2,380.92 370.73 35,670 7 ALKS Almaty Kus OJSC 2,107.33 326.87 29,424,059 11 HSBKp7 Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan OJSC 2,062.31 319.58 2,130,504 1 VOCH Voskhod OJSC 2,041.64 318.01 18,002 1 KZTKb1 Kazakhtelecom 2,035.78 316.80 20,051 5 KZTOb KazTransOil CJSC 1,895.34 295.13 18,440 7 VTBNb1 VALUT-TRANZIT BANK OJSC 1,351.33 210.12 14,397 13 SMGZb1 SHAKHARMUNAIGAS OJSC 1,133.34 176.48 12,328 10 KZMS Corporation Kazakhmys OJSC 1,107.14 172.09 18,581 14 ASFIb2 Astana-finance OJSC 1,052.16 163.81 1,587,000 6 VITAb3 VITA OJSC 647.19 100.32 1,002,542 2 BTASe2 TuranAlem Finance B.V. 550.00 85.61 500,000 2 MMGZp Mangistaumunaigas OJSC 458.00 71.36 53,828 6 NFBN Neftebank OJSC 302.64 46.93 36,926 4 BTAS Bank TuranAlem OJSC 289.27 45.06 3,101 1 LARIb1 JB LARIBA-BANK OJSC 256.97 40.02 250 3 VTBN VALUT-TRANZIT BANK OJSC 218.48 34.01 113,244 4 KARMb1 Karazhanbasmunai OJSC 208.86 32.53 2,076 2 BTASb2 Bank TuranAlem OJSC 148.42 23.05 1,500 2 TEBN TEMIRBANK OJSC 109.68 17.08 17,016 2 TEBNb2 TEMIRBANK OJSC 15.03 2.34 140 2 KZTKp Kazakhtelecom 7.27 1.13 410 2 CSBNb1 BANK CASPIAN OJSC 5.95 0.93 60 1 SSGPp SSOMPU JSC 5.15 0.80 2,002 1 CSBN BANK CASPIAN OJSC 1.33 0.21 1,210 2 CSBNp BANK CASPIAN OJSC 0.03 0.00 27 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments: The securities were sorted in descending order based on the volumes of deals expressed in U.S. dollars. Small letters in the securities codes have the following meanings: "p" - preferred inscribed share; "b" - bond: "e" - eurobond; the rest - common inscribed share. The figure shows the number of the bond issue. If there is no figure (old code) it implies that it is the first issue. Table of main indicators of the stock exchange's CS market in January of 2003 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Capitaliza- Capitaliza- tion tion Bond value of the of the index, Volume share bonds Bonds including of market, Share market, yield accum deals, Date m, USD index m, USD index interest th. USD ---------- ----------- -------- ----------- ------- ---------- -------- Dec 30, 02 1,341.0 140.1721 1,217.906 8.3402 134.8348 2,684.9 Jan 5, 03 1,340.7 127.0246 1,217.830 8.3725 134.8777 192.9 Jan 6, 03 1,341.9 126.9573 1,217.519 8.1934 135.5860 2,315.7 Jan 7, 03 1,342.4 126.9234 1,217.222 8.3712 134.9525 5,172.5 Jan 8, 03 1,341.0 127.0084 1,213.386 8.3784 134.9409 467.2 Jan 9, 03 1,247.0 125.8334 1,214.916 8.3552 135.0441 3,791.1 Jan 10, 03 1,247.1 124.3306 1,214.956 8.3920 135.2062 1,136.4 Jan 13, 03 1,246.9 124.3602 1,214.555 8.3817 135.4080 2,763.1 Jan 14, 03 1,297.9 129.2946 1,215.331 8.3953 135.4246 1,489.2 Jan 15, 03 1,273.4 129.2548 1,215.529 8.2990 135.4461 1,174.4 Jan 16, 03 1,274.7 129.3432 1,215.787 8.3140 135.4299 5.2 Jan 17, 03 1,275.6 124.2985 1,219.020 8.2693 135.6126 2,051.3 Jan 20, 03 1,276.4 124.2522 1,220.604 8.2859 135.6663 4,284.2 Jan 21, 03 1,347.1 130.5626 1,220.908 8.2813 135.7242 4,748.2 Jan 22, 03 1,315.8 125.7209 1,218.913 8.3633 135.4591 868.5 Jan 23, 03 1,317.4 125.7047 1,218.125 8.3110 135.6742 12.1 Jan 24, 03 1,313.1 125.6032 1,218.216 8.2986 135.7473 980.8 Jan 27, 03 1,313.9 125.6298 1,218.328 8.2946 135.8265 320.2 Jan 28, 03 1,330.3 125.6459 1,220.016 8.2782 135.9043 23,122.5 Jan 29, 03 1,330.3 125.6459 1,219.951 8.2667 135.9642 58.5 Jan 30, 03 1,324.8 124.7385 1,220.368 8.2513 136.0488 2,721.3 Jan 31, 03 1,324.5 124.6509 1,234.181 8.2936 135.9073 20,823.7 ---------- ----------- -------- ----------- ------- ---------- -------- Trend -16.5 -15.5212 +16.275 -0.0466 +1.0725 , -1.23% -11.07% +1.34% -0.56% +0.80% , ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments: The shares index (KASE_Shares) reflects the changes in the bids on the shares from the official list of the Exchange's securities of the category "A", including the market capitalization of their issuers. The capitalization of the bond market - indicator that reflects the volume of corporate debt circulating on the KASE as the bonds of the companies. It is calculated on the basis of the number of issued bonds and the bonds admitted to the trades and their market values. In case of the absence of the last figure, face value is used instead. The capitalization of the share market - indicator that reflects the market capitalization of the companies whose shares were entered into official list of the KASE securities. It is calculated on the basis of the number of issued shares and their last market values. In case of the absence of the deals the face values of the securities, expressed in U.S. dollars (if necessary) at the rate of the Exchange for the current day, are used. Index of bonds yields (KASE_BY) - weighted average (through capitalization) yield of the corporate bonds of category "A" of the KASE official list, which is calculated based on the deals or average bids of the market-makers (if there is no deal). Index of bond yields with accumulated interest (KASE_BP) - weighted average (through capitalization) "dirty" price of the corporate bonds of category "A" of the KASE official list, which is calculated based on the deals or average bids of the market-makers (if there is no deal). Purchase-sale deals volume includes the deals made in state blocks of shares and volume of primary floatations at KASE specialized trades but it doesn't take into account repo transactions. [2003-02-03]