October 31, KASE index grows 2.2 %, settles at 971.83

31.10.08 16:35
/KASE, October 31, 08/ - According to results of trades in shares on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) on October 31, 2008 KASE Index grew 20.63 points (2.2 %) from 951.20 to 971.83. The first deal of the day fixed the index value at 947.33. During trading the maximum index value made up 974.89, the minimum - 941.62. Volume of deals in shares of the index representative list on October 31 dropped in tenge equivalent 2.4 times and made KZT150.3 m. (USD1,253.9 th.) Dynamics of KASE Index calculation basis according to results of trades ---------------------------------------------- Last price, Share in KZT Trend Stake trade --------- --------- Trend of influence code 31.10.08 30.10.08 % on index, % ------- --------- --------- ----- ------------ BTAS 27,600.00 26,500.00 +4.2 16.3 CCBN 824.00 780.00 +5.6 11.0 GB_KZMS 600.00 660.00 -9.1 7.3 HSBK 127.00 132.00 -3.8 10.1 KKGB 400.00 365.00 +9.6 18.6 KKGBp 150.00 150.00 0 2.3 KZTK 14,600.00 14,190.00 +2.9 10.0 KZTKp 5,280.00 5,280.00 0 0.6 RDGZ 8,630.00 8,580.00 +0.6 18.3 TEBN 5,000.00 5,000.00 .0 5.6 ---------------------------------------------- KASE Index trend (before 01.10.07 - KASE_Shares) ---------------------------------------------------- Trend ------------ Period % % APR --------------------------------------- ----- ------ Last 30 days (month) -32.5 -396.0 Since beginning of year (from 01.01.08) -63.1 -75.8 Last 365 days (year) -62.5 -62.5 In 2007 +9.1 +9.1 Since beginning of 2006 +50.3 +17.8 ---------------------------------------------------- * yield is calculated on basis actual/365 KASE Index value on any day is the last index value fixed on KASE on that day. KASE Index shows a change in prices of stocks of its representative list with account of capitalization level of issuers and stake of free floating stocks (free float). One stock price may not influence the index value more than 15 %. The index is calculated throughout a day as deals in the representative list stocks are concluded. In case no deals in some stocks have been made on an index calculation day then the last deal price of the stock is used for index calculation. The index page is available at: http://beta.kase.kz/ru/index_kase The text of Stock market indicators calculation methodology is available at: http://www.kase.kz/geninfo/normbase/indicators_met.pdf The full list of share codes with names of issuers is available at: http://www.kase.kz/instruments/nzb_code.htm [2008-10-31]