/IRBIS, December 23, 09/ -BTA Bank JSC subsidiary BTA Securities (BTA Securities, Almaty) has provided IRBIS with a survey of main events, Forecasts and Investment ideas for December 23, 2009.

According to the report, the company analysts expect today:

• Today's global stock market has a definite chance to further enhance the growth of economic optimism of investors. Today the market will wait for favorable U.S. data on personal spending and income Americans, sales of new homes and consumer confidence index, calculated by the University of Michigan. By all accounts, economists expect the positive trend that is likely to contribute to the indices in morning trading in Europe. Are encouraging yesterday looked API data on stocks of oil and gasoline in the United States. According to the agency industry stocks of crude oil last week fell to 3.71 million barrels. And gasoline at 1.1 million barrels. Positive dynamics of oil futures in the first half of the day will also support the stock market in Europe. The resulting dynamics of the market, both Europe and the United States, in the case of positive macro-statistics and government data on U.S. oil reserves will be moderately positive. Positive macro-data will likely lead to further depreciation of the euro / dollar to a mark in 1.4197-1.4200. Technical analysis indicates an increase in major indices today.
• Analysts of BTA Securities expect that the Kazakh stock market today closed in the positive territory. By the beginning of the day formed a favorable external news background. The positive dynamics of stock price of commodity companies.
• In the banking sector in Kazakhstan, there are signs of fixation of profits, analysts said BTA Securities. In the absence of positive news for the sector does not exclude the continuation of the negative dynamics of stock price and the GDR domestic banks in the near future. Depositary receipts showing a decrease for the second consecutive day.
• Unexpectedly turned out to be positive data API oil reserves the United States that, together with a statement of fact the demand for gasoline according to MasterCard in the past two weeks demonstrates the positive trends in the sector, partly due to seasonal factors and partly to improvements in the economy. From current data on oil reserves under the version of U.S. Department of Energy analysts BTA Securities expect less than the version of the API, but, nevertheless, the reduction of oil and gasoline, resulting in the dynamics of quotations of oil today would be positive.
• Tendency to strengthen the dollar against the euro from entering the positive data is likely to remain in the coming days. This, combined with the large inventory of copper in warehouses, apparently, will become a factor of pressure on the quotes of base metals. As analysts expect BTA Securities, quotes Kazakhmys are now under pressure cheapening of copper in the first half of the day. Data on sales of new homes in the U.S., if positive, can deploy quotations copper top.
• Dec. 23 is expected to strengthen against the dollar on positive U.S. personal income. Analysts BTA Securities predict technical weakening British pound.

Analysts of BTA Securities give the following advice for investors in securities of issuers in Kazakhstan:

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                           Stock    Final Target price Recom     Potential
Emitter                    Exch     price     for 2009 mendation % percent
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Banks
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KAZKOMMERTSBANK-GDR        LSE        9.0          5.5 Sell            -39
KAZKOMMERTSBANK            KASE     630.0        410.0 Sell            -35
KAZKOMMERTSBANK -PREF      KASE     260.0        205.0 Sell            -21
HALYK BANK-GDR             LSE        8.7          7.9 Hold             -9
HALYK BANK                 KASE     321.5        295.0 Hold             -8
HALYK BANK -PREF (HSBKP)   KASE     176.0        147.0 Sell            -16
HALYK BANK -PREF1 (HSBKP1) KASE     176.3        191.0 Hold             +8
BANK CENTER CREDIT         KASE     770.0        618.0 Sell            -20
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Oil and Gaz:
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KAZKMUNAIGAZ-GDR           LSE       24.8         30.1 Buy             +21
KAZKMUNAIGAZ               KASE  21,500.0     27,108.0 Buy             +26
BMB MUNAI                  AMEX      1.30         2.54 Buy             +95
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Metallurgy:
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KAZAKHMYS PLC              LSE    1,246.0      1,324.0 Hold             +6
ENRC                       LSE      868.0      1,059.0 Buy             +22
ORSU METALS CORP.          TSX       0.46         1.30 Buy            +183
KAZAKHGOLD-GDR             LSE        7.7          7.0 Hold             -9
URANIUM ONE                LSE        2.9          2.0 Sell            -30
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Companies with small capital:
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KAZAKTELECOM               KASE  18,600.0     22,490.0 Buy             +21
KAZAKHSTAN KAGAZY          LSE      0.280        0.039 Sell            -86
STEPPE CEMENT              LSE       63.5        120.9 Buy             +90
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