/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, February 4, 08/ - IRBIS information agency of financial markets (Almaty) has made liquidity rating of listing companies shares, traded on Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) in January of 2008.

The first 10 positions of the rating are given below. To the stake of these shares in October had come 82.0% of turnover of corresponding sector of exchange market. Over the specified period, deals with shares of 39 names have been made on KASE's open secondary market.

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                             Liquidity indicator calculation base (Kl):
                  Liquidity  ----------  --------  -------  -----------
                      indi-      volume             number       number    Posi-
Position              cator   of deals,    number  of KASE  of success-     tion
      in               (Kl)      m. KZT  of deals  members     ful days       in
    Dec.                                                                 Novemb.
    2007  Share                                                             2007
          symbol
--------  ------  ---------  ----------  --------  -------  -----------  -------
       1  KKGB          2.6     1,551.5       477       74           20        2
       2  RDGZ          2.0     1,621.3       332       55           20        1
       3  CCBN          1.8     1,709.8       270       48           19        3
       4  BTAS          1.3     4,463.0       102       29           18        4
       5  HSBK          1.1       203.5        84       35           17        5
       6  KZTK          1.0       124.0        47       28           19        7
       7  KKGBp         0.8       292.7        55       18           17        8
       8  KANT          0.7     9,150.4        15        7            3        -
       9  TSBN          0.6       113.2        36       17           12       14
      10  MMGZp         0.5       194.7        44        9           11       15
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The "newcomers" of "liquid ten" relative to December 2007 had become KANT (were not present in December rating), TSBN (14th position in December), MMGZp (15th position), having replaced ATFB (6th position in December), HSBKp1 (9th position) and ASFI (10th position).

The surprise of January results was the appearance of KANT common shares of Kant JSC in the rating; no deals have been concluded with these securities in December of 2007. However, longer-term considerations revealed that 98.0% of deals with these securities have "internal" character.

Following the decrease of ATFBp8 position in December of 2007, ATFB common shares of ATFBank JSC left the active 10. Decrease in the trading activity around these securities is related to the end of repurchase of common and preferred stocks of the bank from the minority shareholders in the end of 2007 by Bank Austria Creditanstalt AG (Vienna), which was the owner of 94.65% of floated shares of ATFBank JSC as of January 1 of 2008. At that free float of shares of ATFBank JSC decreased over the last six months on ATFB from 4.4% to 0.3%, on ATFBp8 - from 14.8 % to 11.4 %. By the decision of the risk committee of KASE, since January 16 of 2008 the mentioned shares have been excluded form the representative list of shares for KASE index calculations.

Notes

The rating is based on liquidity indicator (Kl), which is calculated for each share on a specified period. Positions are rated by sorting shares in descending order of Kl (the higher Kl, the higher liquidity is and the lower position in the rating). The first position in the rating corresponds to the highest Kl value.

Description of liquidity indicator calculation methods is available in the proper section of the document, published at: see more in Russian and at see more in English.

IRBIS agency draws attention to the fact that while calculating the liquidity indicator only data on deals, made in KASE secondary market sector (including special trading floor of the regional financial center of Almaty) by one of open trade methods, are taken into account.

"p" letter in the end of the symbol means preferred shares, other letters - common shares.

Full list of symbols of issuers and securities traded on KASE is available at see more

Material given above is not an offer or recommendation to sell or buy shares on KASE. The using of it by anyone while taking investment decisions does not make IRBIS agency responsible for possible losses, resulting from such the decisions.

[2008-02-04]