National Bank of Kazakhstan weekly net borrowing balance on GS market - minus KZT9,625.3 m., for all issuers - minus KZT10,537.3 m.

/IRBIS, Vitaliy Tomskiy, July 21, 08/ - According to IRBIS, the National Bank of Kazakhstan ended the period of July 14- 18, 2008 on the primary GS market with the following results. Having paid off the notes for the amount of KZT79,721.0 m., the issuer borrowed KZT70,095.7 m. at one auction. Thus, the weekly net borrowing balance of the National Bank, resulted in minus KZT9,625.3 m. IRBIS estimates the weekly net borrowing balance of all GS issuers at minus KZT10,537.3 m. The "minus" sign in the balance indicator means the indicated sum was withdrawn from the issuer (issuers) budget and remained at investors, the "plus" sign - for the indicated sum means the issuer (issuers) borrowed more than paid. [2008-07-21]