Volume of purchase and sale transactions in corporate bonds on KASE, including STF RFCA, falls 27.7 % to $1,901.9 m. (KZT229.0 bn.) in initial eight months of 2008

/IRBIS, Dinara Mukasheva, September 8, 08/ - For the initial 8 months of 2008 the volume of purchase and sale transactions with corporate bonds made on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), including deals on the special trading floor of the Regional Financial Center of Almaty (STF RFCA), reached $1,901.9 m. (KZT229.0 bn.), having fallen $728.9 m. or 27.7 % compared with the corresponding period last year. The trend is estimated at KZT94.7 bn. or 29.3 % in tenge. In 2007 the volume of purchase and sale deals in corporate bonds on KASE, including deals on SRF RFCA, made up USD4,302.5 m. or KZT526.3 bn. Below is the table of volumes of deals in corporate bonds made on KASE in 2008, grouped by months as well as the structure of turnover and comparable data for 2007 (th. USD). ------------------------------------------------------------- Sector of the exchange share market ----------------------------------- Month primary market purchase-sale Total ------------- ------------------ ---------------- ----------- January 0 103,289.9 103,289.9 February 0 191,398.1 191,398.1 March 0 95,381.8 95,381.8 April 0 188,671.3 188,671.3 May 53.3 259,800.3 259,853.7 June 0 366,976.7 366,976.7 July 0 532,028.5 532,028.5 August 0 164,288.9 164,288.9 ------------- ------------------ ---------------- ----------- Total 53.3 1,901,835.7 1,901,889.0 including 53.3 458,557.9 458,611.2 STF RFCA ------------- ------------------ ---------------- ----------- Jan-Aug. 2007 84,199.2 2,546,631.8 2,630,830.9 Trend -1,579.3 times -25.3,% -27.7,% ------------------------------------------------------------- [2008-09-08]