Today at KASE dealers restricted themselves to symbolic amount of deals in USD

/IRBIS, Jan.24, 00/ - The morning trades in US dollar, Deutsche mark and Euro were held at Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) with TOD payment terms. 13 banks participated in the trades. Today the trades in US dollars opened at 139.43 tenge per unit. Total of 3 deals were made. Weighted average dollar exchange rate equaled to 139.45 (0) tenge per unit. Volume of the session - $15 th. (-$2,150 mln). Exchange rate fluctuation during the trade - 0.02%. The trades were closed at 139.45/46 tenge per dollar. Today the market was practically illiquid. It seems the banks took a "wait- and-see" position, and five participants restricted themselves to minimum allowed transaction volumes. Dollar was traded between 139.43-139.46 tenge per unit interval. One hour after closing of the morning session on interbank market of Kazakhstan dollar was quoted at 139.39/42 tenge per unit, two hours later - 139.40/44. In the day session of KASE with TOD payment terms at 1:00PM the dollar was at 139.40/45. Deutsche mark, morning session, TOD: no deals. Closing quotations - 71.60/72.30 tenge for mark. Euro, morning session, TOD: no deals. Closing demand - 139.76 tenge for euro, no offer.