Investment attractiveness of financial instruments at KASE from March 2 through 8, 2000

/IRBIS, March 10, 00/ - Following is the table that allows to compare investment attractiveness of the financial instruments, which were regularly traded or quoted (thanks to the market-makers) at KASE from February 24 through March 1. In parentheses - figures of previous period. Financial instrument Currency Yield, % APR. --------------------- -------- --------------- KZT (SS repo) KZT *7.09 (8.03) АVМЕКАМ USD 11.95 (12.31) KKGBb USD 11.95 (12.11) KOMBb USD 13.40 (11.95) BTAS USD 11.80 (12.32) МЕККАМ, notes KZT *16.01 (14.38) MEKAVM, MGU USD *8.54 (8.28) Euronotes-2 USD 9.56 (9.86) Euronotes-3 USD 10.31 (10.40) --------------------- -------- --------------- Notes: Yield of BTAS was calculated for 5 days by ask quotations; yield of KKGBb - by deals; KOMBb - as average for bid quotations. The yields, shown here, do not incorporate overhead expenses that are inevitable when conducting operations and fixing profits (commission and tax collections, membership fees etc). Marked by a star are the instruments with less than a year circulation term. Weighted average effective yields are given for them. Average tenge devaluation rate is estimated in the week by a trend of 11.4% APR.