For year 2007 volume of GS purchase and sale transactions on KASE made KZT992.1 bn. ($8,065.7 m.) and grew 1.2 times

/IRBIS, Ruslan Dzyubaylo, January 3, 08/ - Within year 2007, volume of purchase and sale transactions with government securities (GS) made on Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE), including bonds of domestic executive bodies, totaled KZT992.1 bn. ($8,065.7 m.) and increased 1.19 times relative to last year (1.22 times in dollar expression). In the whole 2006 the volume of corresponding transactions with GS on KASE was KZT837.1 bn. ($6,621.5 m.). Below is the table of volumes of GS purchase and sale deals made on KASE in 2007 grouped by months as well as the structure of the turnover and comparable data of year 2006 (KZT, m.). --------------------------------------------------------- Sector of exchange's GS market ------------------------------ initial secondary market, Month offerings purchase-sale Total -------------- ---------- ------------------ --------- January 15,000.0 31,174.6 46,174.6 February 277.8 85,333.2 85,611.0 March 4,531.0 111,252.6 115,783.6 April 10,181.8 66,297.2 76,479.0 May 16,011.0 65,581.8 81,592.5 June 13,942.4 81,164.4 95,106.8 July 9,034.1 91,343.9 100,377.9 August 2,250.4 185,919.8 188,170.2 September 28,998.0 52,235.0 81,233.0 October 18,866.5 16,355.1 35,221.5 November 24,241.6 7,256.2 31,497.8 December 20,012.7 34,803.1 54,815.9 -------------- ---------- ------------------ --------- Total 163,347.0 828,716.7 992,063.7 -------------- ---------- ------------------ --------- Jan- Dec, 2006 167,558.1 669,536.0 837,094.1 Trend, times 0.97 1.24 1.19 --------------------------------------------------------- [2008-01-03]