STATISTICS: Week volume of USD transactions on KASE - $80.555 million

/IRBIS, Oct.08, 99/ - For US dollar within the 41th week (October 04 - October 10) on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) 1,316 transactions totaling $80.555 million were made at average session volume of $16.111 million. Tenge devaluation, calculated at the average weighted market rate, is evaluated by the one week trend of 36.0% p.a. In the previous week 1,214 deals totaling $60.950 million at average session volume of $12.191 million were made. During that period tenge devaluation rate has made 76.3% p.a. Devaluation of tenge towards US dollar, calculated at average weighted market rate on October 08, is 89.9% p.a. - from the beginning of the current year and 62.4% p.a. - for the last 30 days. For deutsche mark 10 transactions totaling DEM70,000 were made. The deutsche mark rate has increased by 0.84%, that corresponds to 43.6% p.a. of the week average rate of tenge devaluation. For Euro 4 deals on the sum of EU90,000 were made. The Euro rate has increased by 0.2%, that corresponds to 10.7% p.a. of the week average rate of tenge devaluation.