STATISTICS: Weekly volume of Non-state Securities transactions on KASE - $156.1

/IRBIS, Feb.25, 00/ - Within the 9th week of 2000 on the Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) the activity of the non-state securities market has remarkably decreased. During this time 3 transactions totalling $156.1 were made. In comparison with the previous period ($3.419 mln) the trade volume has decreased 3 time. The total volume of the transactions has made 8,000 shares compared to 47,200 securities of the previous week (1,200 shares and 46,000 KOMBb bonds). The deals were made in 3 tools. From them only common registered shares of JSC Bank TuranAlem (BTAS, official list of securities KASE, "A" cathegory) have appeared liquid. They have occupied 95.1% of the total volume. Also transactions were made in common registered stocks of JSC Astana- finans (ASFI, official list of securities, category "A") and common JSC GEOTEKS (GEOT, sector "Non-listing securities", first level of admission. From 3 transactions 2 were direct, that is they were conducted in the KASE Quoted system, excluding automatic satisfaction of applications in counter auction mode. The unique operation in the Astana-finans shares was conducted in the main KASE Trade system mode. In the previous week all transactions were made in the main KASE Trade system mode.