In 2006 volume of foreign currency transactions on KASE reached $41,695.5 m. and grew 3.5 times in dollar equivalent

/IRBIS, Sergey Yakovlev, January 3, 06/ - In 2006 volume of foreign currency transactions held on Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) reached the equivalent of USD41,695.5 m. and grew by $29,651.4 m., compared to last year or 3.5 times in dollar equivalent. In tenge equivalent the turnover grew 3.3 times. Below is the table of volumes of foreign currency deals made on KASE in year 2006 grouped by months and types of currencies. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total trade volume, th. units Volume of --------------------------- Volume, equivalent, Month USD EUR RUB m. KZT th. USD ------------ ---------- ------ ------- ----------- ------------ January 1,504,075 250 700 199,907.4 1,504,407.0 February 1,848,040 0 700 242,607.3 1,848,064.8 March 2,825,400 0 1,200 363,105.4 2,825,442.8 April 2,406,760 0 600 303,793.6 2,406,781.6 May 2,538,990 0 8,700 311,029.1 2,539,312.3 June 1,563,040 0 4,200 186,704.5 1,563,196.2 July 1,733,335 0 17,500 204,720.8 1,733,986.7 August 3,234,365 0 5,000 398,085.0 3,234,552.3 September 3,557,775 0 75,600 449,744.8 3,560,612.0 October 6,135,005 0 17,800 783,723.9 6,135,668.9 November 7,263,600 0 10,500 929,124.8 7,263,996.3 December 7,077,870 0 43,100 904,745.0 7,079,507.5 ------------ ---------- ------ ------- ----------- ------------ Total 41,688,255 250 185,600 5,277,291.8 41,695,528.6 ------------ ---------- ------ ------- ----------- ------------ 2005 12,015,420 15,400 103,100 1,606,309.3 12,044,138.2 Trend, times 3.47 0.02 1.8 3.29 3.46 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Weighted average market rate of tenge against US dollar, calculated on all deals of the main (morning) session of KASE from January 1, 06 till December 31, 06, according to IRBIS's estimation totaled KZT126.80 per dollar, on all exchange's deals - KZT126.57 per dollar. According to exchange's weighted average rate, in year 2006 tenge strengthened against dollar in nominal expression by 5.06%. In 2005 tenge devaluated against dollar by 2.91% in nominal expression. [2007-01-03]