Within the first 10 months of 2006 volume of corporate bonds purchase and sale transactions on KASE reached $2,603.0 m. and grew 1.9 times

/IRBIS, Natalya Khoroshevskaya, November 3, 06/ - For the first ten months of 2006 volume of corporate bonds purchase and sale transactions made on Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE), including initial offerings, reached equivalent of $2,603.0 m. (KZT327.5 bn.) and compared to similar period of last year increased by $1,262.1 m. (in tenge equivalent by KZT149.1 bn.) or 1.9 times (in tenge equivalent - 1.8 times). In 2005 volume of corporate bonds purchase and sale deals on KASE was the equivalent of USD1,715.8 m. or KZT228.7 bn. Following is the table of volumes of shares deals made on KASE in 2006 grouped by months as well as the structure of turnover and comparable data for year 2005 (th. USD). ---------------------------------------------------------- Sector of the exchange's share market ------------------------------ Month primary market purchase-sale Total ------------- --------------- ------------- ----------- January 9,193.6 320,955.9 330,149.6 February 0 207,317.8 207,317.8 March 1,953.4 338,435.9 340,389.3 April 40,183.7 218,975.7 259,159.4 May 98.4 347,275.3 347,373.6 June 14,893.6 300,867.1 315,760.7 July 0 180,219.7 180,219.7 August 27,007.1 157,991.2 184,998.2 September 6,923.9 161,705.4 168,629.3 October 6,330.8 262,706.7 269,037.5 ------------- --------------- ------------- ----------- Total 106,584.4 2,496,450.8 2,603,035.2 ------------- --------------- ------------- ----------- Jan-Oct, 2005 28,491.0 1,312,417.3 1,340,908.3 Trend, times 3.74 1.90 1.94 ---------------------------------------------------------- [2006-11-03]