/IRBIS, Ruslan Dzyubaylo, Andrey Tsalyuk, October 11, 06/ - By the results of shares trades on Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) on October 11, 2006 KASE_Shares index increased by 141.13 points (7.97%) from 1,771.38 to 1,912.52.

The following table contains all changes of quotations, which influenced upon new index by the results of trades:

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                     Best bid,
                 KZT per share  Change of
Share   ----------------------     quota-
symbol  October 11  October 10    tion, %
------  ----------  ----------  ---------
KZTC     19,000.00   10,000.00      +90.0
VTBNp       325.00      234.00      +38.9
AMGZ     97,000.00   75,000.00      +29.3
NRBNp6   34,000.00   28,500.00      +19.3
BTAS    114,000.00  100,000.00      +14.0
TEBNp     1,150.00    1,070.00       +7.5
------  ----------  ----------  ---------
CCBN      1,000.00    1,000.01     -0.001
ATFB      8,098.00    8,100.00      -0.02
ASBNp1   13,200.00   13,350.00       -1.1
RDGZ     11,800.00   12,200.00       -3.3
VTBN        289.99      320.00       -9.4
ROSA        570.00      639.43      -10.9
ATFBp8    1,300.01    1,843.00      -29.5
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In the opinion of IRBIS specialists, the index increased mainly due to the growth of bid prices for AMGZ, BTAS and KZTC.

It is forth noting that on October 10 Exploration Production KazMunayGas JSC provided KASE with the extract from registers system of shareholders as of October 5, 2006, in which results of company's IPO, conducted at the end of September of current year, were taken into account. Due to this number of common shares of Exploration Production KazMunayGas JSC (KZ1P51460114, RDGZ), which is used by the exchange at calculation of KASE_Shares index, was has been increased by 70,220,935 since October 11. This entailed the necessity of introduction of correction factor at calculation of index in the amount of 3.588913.

Introduction of correction factor was fulfilled by the decision of the Risk committee of KASE in compliance with the exchange's internal document "Methods of calculation of stock exchange's indicators", which is available at see more

Below is the table, describing change of KASE_Shares index for different periods (actual/365 basis).

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                                                    Change:
                                           ----------------
Period                                            %   % APR
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For the last 30 days (month)                   +5.4   +66.2
From this year beginning (from Jan 1, 06)    +195.9  +252.6
For the last 365 days (year)                 +351.1  +351.1
For year 2005                                +203.0  +203.0
From the beginning of 2004                 +1,242.8  +447.4
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We remind, that KASE_Shares index reflects the change of best demand quotations, registered on the open market of KASE during the day, for shares of KASE's official "A" listing category taking into account the market capitalization of their issuers.

The full list of shares symbols with names of their issuers is available at see more

[2006-10-11]