Within the first four months of 2007 volume of purchase and sale transactions with corporate bonds on KASE made $1,346.5 m. and grew by 18.4%

/IRBIS, Natalya Khoroshevskaya, May 4, 07/ - Within the first four months 2007 volume of purchase and sale transactions with corporate bonds made on Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE), including deals on the special trading floor of the regional financial center of Almaty (STF RFCA), reached equivalent of $1,346.5 m. (KZT166.9 bn.) and compared to the similar period of last year increased by $209.5 m. or by 18.4%. In tenge equivalent the change is estimated at KZT19.5 bn. or by 13.2%. In 2006 volume of purchase and sale deals with corporate bonds on KASE was the equivalent of USD3,015.5 m. or KZT380.2 bn. Following is the table of volumes of deals with corporate bonds made on KASE in 2007 and grouped by months as well as the structure of turnover and comparable data for year 2006 (th. USD). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sector of the exchange's share market ------------------------------------- Month primary market purchase-sale Total ------------ ------------------ ----------------- ----------- January 0 241,858.1 241,858.1 February 0 323,056.7 323,056.7 March 2,620.1 531,125.5 533,745.6 April 15,452.3 232,402.2 247,854.5 ------------ ------------------ ----------------- ----------- Total 18,072.4 1,328,442.5 1,346,514.9 including 0 404.8 404.8 STF RFCA ------------ ------------------ ----------------- ----------- Jan-Apr 2006 51,330.7 1,085,685.4 1,137,016.1 Trend, times -64.8 +22.4 +18.4 ---------------------------------------------------------------- [2007-05-04]