Within the first 9 months of 2007 volume of purchase and sale transactions with shares on KASE, including STF RFCA made $5,591.6 m. (KZT685.1 bn.) and grew 4.9 times

/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, October 2, 07/ - Within the first nine months of 2007 volume of purchase and sale transactions with shares on Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE), including deals on special trading floor of Regional financial center of Almaty (STF RFCA) made equivalent of $5,591.6 m. (KZT685.1 bn.) and increased by $4,444.9 m. (KZT541.6 bn.) or 4.9 times in dollar and tenge equivalent compared to the similar period of last year. In 2006 volume of shares purchase and sale deals on KASE, including offering (including Exploration Extraction KazMunayGas JSC in the context of IPO by subscripting through KASE members) and subscription on the secondary market via the trading system of KASE (shares KAZAKHMYS PLС) was the equivalent of USD4,026.6 m. or KZT511.0 bn. Following is the table of volumes of shares deals made on KASE in 2007 grouped by months as well as the structure of turnover and comparable data for year 2006 (th. USD). ----------------------------------------------------- Exchange's shares market sector -------------------- Month primary secondary Total ------------------ ------- ----------- ----------- January 0 206,880.8 206,880.8 February 0 212,625.3 212,625.3 March 0 374,000.6 374,000.6 April 0 348,535.4 348,535.4 May 0 486,970.9 486,970.9 June 0 2,931,026.5 2,931,026.5 July 0 521,253.6 521,253.6 August 0 303,566.3 303,566.3 September 0 206,721.6 206,721.6 ------------------ ------- ----------- ----------- Total 0 5,591,580.9 5,591,580.9 including STF RFCA 0 78,953.5 78,953.5 ------------------ ------- ----------- ----------- Jan-Sep, 2006 6,855.3 1,139,844.4 1,146,699.6 Trend, times Х +4.9 +4.9 ----------------------------------------------------- [2007-10-03]