At KASE volume of deals in $1,000 futures contracts reached $43,450 mln on February 1

/IRBIS, Feb.1, 00/ - On Tuesday volume of deals at Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) was the highest for all history of futures market of Kazakhstan and reached 43.450 th. U.S. dollars, exceeding the volume of operations in base asset on this day 7 times. Total of 16 deals were made on the floor in six types of non-delivery futures for $1,000. Following is trade results. Settlement Price Volume of Contract Settlement price, KZT trend, Number deals, code date per USD KZT of deals contract. ---------- ----------- ---------- ------- -------- --------- FUSD0002UN Feb.25.00 142.50 -20.11 2 2,805 FUSD0003UN March 31.00 145.00 -18.33 2 3,805 FUSD0004UN Apr.28.00 147.30 3 9,000 FUSD0005UN May 26.00 151.27 3 9,000 FUSD0006UN June 30.00 155.45 3 9,090 FUSD0007UN July 28.00 161.10 3 9,750 ---------- ----------- ---------- ------- -------- --------- TOTAL 43,450 Deals were made to close existing positions (before time settlement of contracts). As a result, only 10 contracts were left on the trade floor by the end of the trade (amount of opened interest - 10 th. USD), including five with February settlement (FUSD0002UN) and five - with March settlement (FUSD0003UN).