Statistics: Week volume of USD transactions on KASE - $62.980 million

/IRBIS, Oct.15, 99/ - For US dollar within the 42nd week (October 11 - October 17) on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) 1,316 transactions totaling $62.980 million were made at average session volume of $12.596 million. Tenge devaluation, calculated at the average weighted market rate, is evaluated by the one week trend of minus 45.40% p.a. (tenge revaluated). In the previous week 1 316 deals totaling $80.555 million at average session volume of $16.111 million were made. During that period tenge devaluation rate has made 36.0% p.a. Devaluation of tenge towards US dollar, calculated at average weighted market rate on October 15, is 85.8% p.a. - from the beginning of the current year and 46.1% p.a. - for the last 30 days. For deutsche mark 17 transactions totaling DEM175,000 were made. The deutsche mark rate has increased by 0.84%, that corresponds to 26.9% p.a. of the week average rate of tenge devaluation. For Euro 3 deals on the sum of EU140,000 were made. The Euro rate has increased by 0.2%, that corresponds to 33.7% p.a. of the week average rate of tenge devaluation. Total volume of the transactions in foreign currency within the 42nd week is 8,942.0 million tenges or $63,226,200.