SS purchase and sale at KASE - KZT306.5 mln

/IRBIS, March 17, 00/ - Results of the next trades in domestic State Securities at Kazakhstan stock exchange including closing quotations: Annual yield to maturity, % Till --------------------------- maturity, Average best best Volume, Currency days for deals bid ask million KZT -------- --------- ---------- ------- ------- ----------- KZT 6 12.16 12.16 12.77 61.0 KZT 21 12.57 KZT 27 12.93 KZT 28 12.47 13.13 49.5 KZT 63 13.97 KZT 77 13.52 15.63 KZT 160 15.45 KZT 280 17.18 17.34 161.3 KZT 356 17.06 -------- --------- ---------- ------- ------- ----------- USD* 133 9.55 9.75 11.52 24.6 USD 279 10.40 12.57 USD 283 9.80 11.80 USD 329 9.46 9.46 10.2 USD 1461 **11.52 **12.47 -------- --------- ---------- ------- ------- ----------- TOTAL 306.5 * MGU - bonds of local executive body of Mangistau oblast; ** AVMEKAM, full yield to maturity calculated at weighted average rate of the Exchange for current day. Yields, shown for securities denominated in USD, are calculated by IRBIS at the official rate on the transaction date (KZT141.30 per dollar). IRBIS remains that since March 15, 2000 IRBIS and KASE have changed algorithm of the yield of coupon bonds calculation at the trades results processing.