STATISTICS: Week volume of USD transactions on KASE - $51.430 million

/IRBIS, Oct.22, 99/ - For US dollar within the 42nd week (October 18 - October 24) on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) 1,246 transactions totaling $51.430 million were made at average session volume of $10.286 million. Tenge devaluation, calculated at the average weighted market rate, is evaluated by the one week trend of minus 10.3% p.a. (tenge revaluated). In the previous week 1,060 deals totaling $62.980 million at average session volume of $12,596 million were made. During that period tenge revaluation rate has made 36.0% p.a. Devaluation of tenge towards US dollar, calculated at average weighted market rate on October 22, is 83.4% p.a. - from the beginning of the current year and 33.3% p.a. - for the last 30 days. For deutsche mark 15 transactions totaling DEM230,000 were made. The deutsche mark rate has increased by 0.84%, that corresponds to 47.9% p.a. of the week average rate of tenge devaluation. For Euro 5 deals on the sum of EU45,000 were made. The Euro rate has increased by 0.6%, that corresponds to 31.4% p.a. of the week average rate of tenge devaluation. Total volume of the transactions in foreign currency within the 42nd week is 7,255.1 million tenges or $51,606,200.