On September 21 a joint press conference of KASE and Indexing service of S&P took place

/KASE, September 21, 07/ - On September 21 of 2007 at 12:00 p.m., a joint press conference of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) and Indexing service of the international rating agency Standard & Poor's S&P took place in the Kazakhstani Press club (Scientists' House, 29, Kurmangazi st., Almaty city). The following questions were covered on the press conference: - change in the valuation method of KASE stock market index; - inclusion of Kazakhstan in the S&P Emerging Markets Data Base (EMDB) and Frontier Indices family; The next persons took part in the press conference: - the First Vice-president of KASE Idel Sabitov Marsilevich; - director of the KASE information and analysis department Andrey Tsalyuk Yurievich; - Director of S&P Indexing service over the developing countries Taber Johnson. The press releases that were prepared for the press conference have been published on KASE's Web site: - Since October 1, the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange launches a new index of its shares' market at http://www.kase.kz/mix/07_09_21_KASE.pdf; - inclusion of Kazakhstan in the S&P Emerging Markets Data Base (EMDB) and S&P/IFCG Frontier Indices family at http://www.kase.kz/mix/07_09_21_S&P.pdf [2007-09-21]