National Bank of Kazakhstan weekly net borrowing balance on GS market - plus KZT14,023.3 m., for all issuers - plus KZT13,954.2 m.

/IRBIS, Vitaliy Tomskiy, August 4, 08/ - According to IRBIS, the National Bank of Kazakhstan ended the period of July 28 - August 1, 2008 on the primary GS market with the following results. Having paid off the notes for the amount of KZT65,259.1 m., the issuer borrowed KZT79,282.4 m. at one auction. Thus, the weekly net borrowing balance of the National Bank, resulted in plus KZT14,023.3 m. IRBIS estimates the weekly net borrowing balance of all GS issuers at plus KZT13,954.2 m. The "minus" sign in the balance indicator means the indicated sum was withdrawn from the issuer (issuers) budget and remained at investors, the "plus" sign - for the indicated sum means the issuer (issuers) borrowed more than paid. [2008-08-04]