World currency rates to KZT at 3:00 p.m. ALT March 4, 2009

/IRBIS, Nadezhda Chipirova, March 4, 09/ - Below are cross-rates of foreign currencies, officially quoted in Kazakhstan. relative to Kazakhstan tenge. The rates were fixed at 3:00 p.m. of Almaty time (ALT) on March 4, 2009. The given trends show the difference relative to the corresponding values of the previous day, which have been calculated by similar methods. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Cross-rate, KZT per unit of currency Rate in Index of ------------------------ currency unit currency Currency value trend for 1USD -------- -------------------- ------------ ----------- ------------- AUD Australian dollar 95.85 -1.01 1.5694 GBP English pound 211.64 -0.76 0.7107 DKK Danish crown 25.27 -0.28 5.9522 AED Dirham of UAE 40.95 -0.03 3.6729 EUR EURO 188.27 -2.08 0.7990 CAD Canadian dollar 116.33 -0.81 1.2930 KWD Kuwaiti dinar 509.73 -2.14 0.2951 NOK Norwegian crown 20.86 -0.31 7.2113 SAR Real of Saudi Arabia 40.11 -0.03 3.7502 SGD Singaporean dollar 96.86 -0.45 1.5529 TRL Turkish lira 86.79 -0.97 1.7332 SEK Sweden crown 16.30 -0.27 9.2265 CHF Swedish frank 127.41 -0.93 1.1806 KRW South-Korean won 0.0970 0 1550.9000 JPY Japanese yen 1.5162 -0.02 99.2100 CNY Chinese yuan 21.98 -0.02 6.8429 SD SDR* 189.88 -0.15 0.7922 SOM Kirgiz som** 3.65 0 41.1620 LVL Latvian lat 266.32 -2.11 0.5648 LTL Lithuanian lit 54.54 -0.61 2.7579 MDL Moldavian lei 14.03 -0.04 10.7200 RUR Russian rouble 4.15 0 36.2150 UAK Ukrainian griven 19.28 +1.47 7.8000 EEK Estonian crown 12.03 -0.14 12.5008 -------- -------------------- ------------ ----------- ------------- USD US dollar (KASE) 150.42 -0.12 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Foreign currencies' cross-rates relative to Kazakhstan tenge were calculated based on the weighted average USD rate formed at the KASE main session and foreign currencies' rates relative to USD published in the information system REUTERS ("QRIC=Х"). * Cross-rates of SDR were calculated based on the rate of SDR relative to US dollar of the previous day (RIC - "NYME"); **Cross-rate of the Kyrgyz som was calculated by the official rate of the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (RIC - "KGSFIX="). The source of information is REUTERS. [2009-03-04]