/IRBIS, Nadezhda Chipirova, March 17, 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 17, 2009.

The given trends show the difference relative to the corresponding values of the previous day, which have been calculated by similar methods.

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                                           Cross-rate,
                              KZT per unit of currency       Rate in
Index of                      ------------------------ currency unit
currency Currency                    value       trend      for 1USD
-------- -------------------- ------------ ----------- -------------
AUD      Australian dollar           99.07       -0.03        1.5179
GBP      English pound              210.88       -1.44        0.7131
DKK      Danish crown                26.18       +0.06        5.7430
AED      Dirham of UAE               40.94       +0.04        3.6728
EUR      EURO                       195.09       +0.32        0.7708
CAD      Canadian dollar            118.18       -0.22        1.2725
KWD      Kuwaiti dinar              514.12       +0.62        0.2925
NOK      Norwegian crown             22.07       -0.06        6.8144
SAR      Real of Saudi Arabia        40.10       +0.03        3.7504
SGD      Singaporean dollar          98.15       +0.26        1.5321
TRL      Turkish lira                88.43       -0.22        1.7005
SEK      Sweden crown                17.76       +0.10        8.4681
CHF      Swedish frank              127.03       +0.23        1.1838
KRW      South-Korean won           0.1071           0     1403.5000
JPY      Japanese yen               1.5231       -0.01       98.7300
CNY      Chinese yuan                22.00       +0.02        6.8370
SD       SDR*                       189.83       +0.16        0.7922
SOM      Kirgiz som**                 3.57           0       42.1152
LVL      Latvian lat                276.08       +0.49        0.5447
LTL      Lithuanian lit              56.54       +0.11        2.6597
MDL      Moldavian lei               13.86       +0.01       10.8500
RUR      Russian rouble               4.36       +0.04       34.4750
UAK      Ukrainian griven            18.92       +0.55        7.9500
EEK      Estonian crown              12.47       +0.02       12.0580
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USD      US dollar (KASE)           150.38       +0.13
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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.

[2009-03-17]